dsh-voice

📦 @goodandready/dsh-voice

Zero-Latency Streaming Dictation & Multi-Provider Voice Input for DeepSeek Harness

🇬🇧 English • 🇷🇺 Русский • 🇨🇳 中文说明

⭐ If you like this plugin, please star it on GitHub — it shows me that the plugin is useful to you and motivates me to keep developing it. 🐛 If you find a bug or would like to request a feature, open a GitHub issue in any language — I will review your proposal and implement useful suggestions in a future plugin version.

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⚡ Overview

dsh-voice brings voice superpowers to the DeepSeek Harness Web UI. Whether you need hands-free real-time streaming dictation segmented on natural breath pauses or crisp voice notes with keyboard/mouse Push-to-Talk gestures, dsh-voice ensures your audio is never lost thanks to automatic multi-provider fallback chains.

graph LR
    subgraph Client [Browser Web UI]
        Mic[🎙️ Dictation Mic] -->|VAD Cut on Pause| Stream[Audio Chunks]
        Wave[🌊 Voice Message] -->|Hold / Release| PTT[Push-to-Talk]
    end

    subgraph Host [DSH Host Backend]
        Stream --> FFMPEG[ffmpeg 16kHz Transcoder]
        PTT --> FFMPEG
        FFMPEG --> Chain{Fallback Chain}
        
        Chain -->|1st Priority| P1[Deepgram / Nova-2]
        Chain -.->|On Rate Limit / 429| P2[Groq / Whisper Turbo]
        Chain -.->|On Failure| P3[Local whisper.cpp / Offline]
    end

    subgraph Output [Target]
        P1 --> Composer[💬 Web Composer / Chat]
        P2 --> Composer
        P3 --> Composer
    end

    style Client fill:#1e1e2e,stroke:#89b4fa,stroke-width:2px,color:#cdd6f4
    style Host fill:#181825,stroke:#cba6f7,stroke-width:2px,color:#cdd6f4
    style Output fill:#11111b,stroke:#a6e3a1,stroke-width:2px,color:#cdd6f4

✨ Key Features

• 🎙️ Streaming Dictation with VAD: Speech is automatically sliced at natural pauses (vadSilenceMs, default 700ms) and typed into the composer in real time.
• 🌊 Voice Notes with Cancel Window: Record your thought and have it automatically dispatched to the agent after a safety countdown (autoSendMs, default 4000ms).
• 🎮 Tactile Push-to-Talk:
  • Mouse: Hold the wave button — releasing sends the message; dragging pointer away discards.
  • Keyboard: Hold Ctrl (or custom hotkey) for hands-free speaking; press Esc to cancel.
• ⚡ Zero-Latency In-Browser Captions (browser): Chrome Web Speech API recognition runs 100% locally with live floating captions as you speak.
• 🛡️ Ironclad Multi-Provider Fallbacks: If your primary cloud provider runs out of credits or hits a 429 rate limit, requests seamlessly fail over down the chain.
• 🧠 Context Glossary Injection: Automatically extracts code variables and identifiers from your composer draft to steer STT model accuracy on technical jargon.
• 🎵 Embedded Audio Player: Preview, scrubber, and playback of your recorded voice message directly in chat and the composer dock.
• 🔇 Hardware Noise Suppression Toggle: Configurable in settings to toggle browser-level noise suppression, echo cancellation, and auto gain control.
• 📊 Provider Latency & Health Dashboard: Live visual telemetry of provider latency (ms), success rates, and errors directly within the settings UI.
• 🔒 Zero API Key Leakage: Keys are resolved on the host via ctx.credentials (credentialRef) and never transmitted to browser clients.
• 🖥️ Offline Local Whisper Server: Automatically boots and manages whisper.cpp (whisper-server) with on-the-fly ffmpeg transcode.
• ⚡ SenseVoice-ONNX / Sherpa-ONNX (0.8.11, updated 0.8.32): Ultra-fast (~50–100ms) non-autoregressive local STT engine with 1-click automatic model installation to ~/.dsh/models/sensevoice.
• 🎙️ Gated Turn-Taking & Echo Prevention (0.8.32): Automatically mutes the mic while the assistant is speaking (dsh:tts:start/stop) and supports speech-triggered Barge-In.
• 👻 Live Ghost Interim Preview (0.8.32): Visual real-time preview of spoken words before final chunk transcription.
• ⏱️ SVG Silence Ring Timer (0.8.32): Circular animated countdown indicator in the composer dock during the pending message delay.
• 🗣️ Hands-free Voice Actions (0.8.32): Spoken commands ("send", "cancel", "clear", "new line") trigger UI actions directly.
• 🧩 Structured Prompt Voice Selection (0.8.32): Spoken options automatically select buttons in interactive assistant choice prompts.
• 📖 Developer Lexicon & IT Jargon Correction (0.8.32): Phonetic normalization for developer slang (GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, pnpm) with customizable settings dictionary.
• 🌐 Realtime Audio Streaming (0.8.11): Low-latency WebSocket bridge (/dsh-voice/realtime) for OpenAI Realtime API or local Sherpa-ONNX streaming. API keys stay securely on the host.
• 🌊 Liquid Wave & Dynamic Orb Visualizer (0.8.12): Smooth animated audio visualization in the recording pill with real-time mic volume reactivity. Switch between organic multi-layer liquid waves, pulsating radiant orb, classic bars, or off.

📝 What's New in 0.8.32

10-point feature epic & SenseVoice 1-Click Installer (Issue #129):

📝 What's New in 0.8.19

Quality batch after the v0.8.18 review (Gitea #79–#87, PR #88):

[!IMPORTANT] v0.8.19 locale behavior: without a translation plugin the Web UI stays in English. Session/edit spoken command phrases still match Russian speech for STT where documented; interface labels do not ship a second dictionary.

🎮 Four Ways to Speak

[!TIP] You can customize the keyboard modifier in settings (hotkey: Control, Alt, Shift, or any KeyboardEvent.code).

🛠️ Supported Providers Matrix

🚀 Ready-Made Presets (Plug & Play)

Just specify the name in your fallback chain and add the corresponding API key:

• openai (whisper-1) → OPENAI_API_KEY
• siliconflow (SenseVoiceSmall) → SILICONFLOW_API_KEY
• mistral (voxtral-mini-latest) → MISTRAL_API_KEY
• openrouter (google/gemini-2.5-flash) → OPENROUTER_API_KEY
• deepinfra (whisper-large-v3-turbo) → DEEPINFRA_API_KEY
• fireworks (whisper-v3-turbo) → FIREWORKS_API_KEY

📦 Quick Installation

dsh plugin --profile web add @goodandready/dsh-voice

[!IMPORTANT] Restart DSH Web UI after installation (systemctl --user restart dsh-web) and refresh your browser tab.

⚙️ Configuration

Open Settings → Plugins → Plugin settings → Voice in the Web UI:

- id: dsh-voice
  config:
    dictation:
      language: ru
      vadSilenceMs: 700
      chain:
        - provider: deepgram
        - provider: groq
        - provider: local-whisper
    message:
      language: ru
      autoSendMs: 4000
      chain:
        - provider: openai
        - provider: local-whisper
    hotkey: Control
    autoStart: true
    whisperModel: /models/ggml-medium-q8_0.bin

🤖 Agent Tool & HTTP API

Agent Tool (transcribe_audio)

Registers transcribe_audio(file_path, language?) in ctx.tools, allowing agents to analyze audio files, interview recordings, and voice notes directly from disk.

Internal HTTP Endpoints

• POST /dsh-voice/transcribe — { dataBase64, mimeType, mode } → { ok, text, provider, tookMs }
• POST /dsh-voice/polish — { text } → { ok, text }
• GET /dsh-voice/status — Returns daemon status, active chains, SenseVoice and realtime config.
• GET /dsh-voice/realtime — WebSocket upgrade for low-latency audio streaming (OpenAI Realtime API / Sherpa-ONNX). Accepts binary audio chunks, returns JSON text deltas.

📄 License

MIT © GooDAnDReaDY