What’s new in Speech Layer

Resolve panes on non-active tabs of a workspace

Herdr 0.7.5 dropped agent send; inject path now uses agent prompt

AGENTS.md and wake-words herder-route notes match the new CLI

Stop treating bare 10/11-digit runs as phones

Drop postal code masking entirely

Speech Layer restart now revives a dead email-pi-bridge via email-pi-bridge-ensure (best-effort, cron remains primary supervisor)

Footer and logs count distinct identities, not hits

Shield and unshield phone XMPP sticky injects and replies

Shared store with email bridge and kill-switch XMPP_PRIVACY

Count shield replacements per message and log them

Tell agents that fake tokens are stand-ins to quote as-is

Footer replies with what Speech Layer shielded during LLM calls

Herd residual body verbs ask which pane, never spawn to or two

Fix client-site-two bug: body_starter includes to/too/two; herd-default routing for workspace-matched tells; block function-word callsigns.

Wake poke, CLI fast path, dead-air slimming, hold presynth

Install committed say/say-queue-daemon (wake.fifo 8ms claim, same-group ordering, recording-hold presynth, 40ms enqueue)

Hands-free auto-calibration battery + daemon self-barge detector

Spoken-prep leading-zero trim (PI-000018 -> PI-18); README: wake.fifo/same-group/presynth queue docs

Glue 'tilda/tilde slash foo' to ~/foo before flat pairs

Mask bare and keyword-anchored phone numbers with NANP validation

Mask payment cards, tax ids, and Canadian postal codes with stable fakes

Mask emails and phones to stable short fakes before prompts reach the LLM and restore them on replies

Seed names from mail headers and body anchors with separate first and last fakes

Shield injected prompts and unshield replies with a shared locked-down lookup file

Ask which pane when duplicate labels span workspaces

Silent deciders sticky then focused herd then unique agent name

Share the which-pane question and answer across voice and text

Mute or unmute the default sink with switch volume and goodnight phrases

Set Pocket voice across a whole workspace or a named pane

Queue by default, pane-scoped replay ring, and soft barge gating

Reconcile Pocket daemon pile-ups and durable HF cache on restart

Keep XMPP channel sticky separate from voice sticky and focus

Allow duplicate pane labels and keep agent names unique

Stop bare thinking words cutting mid-sentence dictation

Drop dead svn commit historical map note

Speak xmpp as x m p p

Currency, paths, URLs, emails, dates, emoji in speak-prep

Log respell diffs for training when raw ≠ fixed

Absorb trailing dots on a.m./p.m. clock forms

Fix a.m./p.m. trailing period after clock expand

Speak clock times without colon (14:30, 3pm)

Space month abbr expansions so Oct.17 reads clean

Month abbreviations speak as full names

Client-site-class fusions respelled as tell client-site

Degrees, ops, %, #N, units, e.g., cwd

Speak-prep dict (~ → roughly; digit.digit → point)

Successful tell no longer dual-dispatches into the focused pane

Mark tell committed before TTS; fire-and-forget say

Wall after commit counts handled; refuse tell-shaped fallthrough with voice retry

Free-form pi-surf prefers sticky pin over focused eyes

Evolve proper-nouns into a respell dictionary (pie/pi, user JSON)

Delete pi session runs /delete and confirms Yes

Agent inject keeps multi-Enter sleep order for confirms

Eyes/focus on also raises the herdr pi-surf window

Focus client-site cleaner lands on the cleaner pane

Tell body re-runs bare control grammar on target pane

Tell body runs cwd/nav control on target pane not chat paste

STT togel focus for tell-move-focus toggle

Home sticky channel is herdr not mac

Voice toggle for tells moving eyes focus

Fix show me bare eyes-on grammar

Voice eyes on/off for bare workspace and pane focus

Fold client-site's / client-site STT into client-site for tell routing

Sticky hold checked every tick so focus cannot keep the channel

Sticky hold reasserts herdr against focus steal

Handoff wait-scrape herdr reply to phone; re-pin sticky + hold

Focus sync skips sticky during hold so channel stays herdr

SMS herdr reply after wait; re-pin sticky

Fix bridge crash mangle on scrap path regex

STICKY machine line; instruct create to re-stick new pane

Short ensure herdr pane when missing

Confirm keyword yes/no never agent-sends the herdr pane

Default handoff to herdr pane via agent send

Keep rules/LLM rewrite path intact behind spawn-offer-clarify flip

Quoted my workspace and label-before-noun patterns

Live herd name in free text re-routes offer with held body

Never TUI dump mid-working; reject chrome junk

Keep live herd det words like my for inventory peel

Non-yes/no → rules then Needle/LLM rewrite route only

Consent stays keywords; wrong rewrite vectors never invent yes

Live-offer free-form asks speechlayer clarify path

Stop he eating hello

Forward speechlayer spawn-offer text to XMPP not echo inbound

Stop to/that hard split; long-comma English stays peel

Heal session D-Bus so Gajim remote can ack

Silent focus cutover repins sticky without phone spam

Sticky is channel not eyes address wins then manual focus

Herdr skill notes label equals agent callsign dual-write

Pane rename always dual-writes agent callsign (shim plus control)

Background callsign sync heals TUI renames upgrade-proof

Tell shell pane to launch pi types pi plus enter not prose

Move working directory force-relocates pi session and resumes

Keep change working directory as exit-pi shell-cd path

Folder nav resolves chat basenames and change-cwd phrases

Match change working directory / cwd / folder to name

Resolve short basenames under chat before zoxide

Never agent-send spawn yes/no residual or I don't know garbage

Wait for TTS and skip free-wake preroll on spawn oneshot

Peel hey speechlayer wake so spawn yes/no is not tell-to-speechlayer

Arm one-shot free-wake after spawn offer, cut on yes/no

Accept no thanks and wake-style yes/no on spawn offers

Typed Note-to-Self runs the same Speech Layer pipeline as voice notes

Peel my/the and trailing pane nouns on tell routes

Caption side-channel for current, last, queue, status.json

Queue daemon updates captions on play, skip, done, and cancel

Tell client-site luke launch pi route works despite STT mangling

Tall/tel aliases of tell and cube-old folds into client-site

Stop hyphen split and cwd-basename false pane on tell peel

Hey and yo aliases for tell with dual-use hey (filler vs route)

Sticky fallthrough on soft free-form, shared with phone target file

Unknown tell target offers spoken yes/no spawn (shared XMPP offer state)

Tell workspace pane message routes via live inventory longest match

Herdr agent inject (XMPP-style) for tell, herder route, and --inject CLI

Everyday make/create/new pane wording maps to ensure pane

Wvd_agent_inject helper; pi-surf-term prefers agent send over xdotool

Soft "speechlayer …" free-form gate with salvage before network and hard walls so blue never hangs

Ensure workspace and ensure pane create-if-missing then focus, including natural hybrid phrasing

Bash wvd_herdr_control wall plus {{SHIFTTAB}} marker wins in dictate scripts

Needle and herder-route ops, tts barge conf, phone mic and listen-path polish

Hold say playback while Speech Layer is recording so panes don't talk over the mic

Soft interrupt skips only the current utterance and keeps the rest of the queue

Wake and energy barge use skip; shut up still drains the whole queue

Track host say queue tools and say-summary extension with Speech Layer

Void guest shutdown check with default-device arecord proof; image retained

Void thin-guest L2 claim and burn-in scorecard (runit, on-target whisper, PA mix)

Rewrite DAEMON_HOME pyenv templates and ship alsa-plugins-pulseaudio on void

Dual-ship service trees with WVD default Pulse device fallback for Void asound

Force-distro/init/DE overrides and optional scrcpy on void and suse

Harden runit enable and systemd unit write for thin containers

Family dry-run matrix, container smokes, Level-3 residual scrub

Linux-family-matrix plus void and opensuse package smoke reports

Cross-host macos svc_status port heuristics and soft LAN path

Add macos-first-hour checklist with Darwin-safe probes

Gate first-hour and forced-macos status in adapter selfcheck

Point macOS install and resumption at first-hour playbook

Multi-family (debian/Mint) path, models seed step, on-target whisper wrappers

KDE/Cinnamon/dconf-cli hotkeys and never transplant cross-distro whisper bins

Ship wakeword-models seed including hey_speechlayer verifier

Mint walkthrough, portability claim calibrated, debian-family QEMU burn-in

Add install-macos first-boot helper and optional indicator launchd unit

Ship skhd and Hammerspoon hotkey examples under system/macos

Prefer TMPDIR for SL_RUNTIME_DIR on Darwin in env.sh

Make fetch-deps cmake jobs work without Linux nproc

Point README and portability at the macOS install path

Route dictate RECORD_DEVICE through audio_fallback_device for CoreAudio default

Ship rumps menu-bar indicator skeleton and wire Darwin CLI check or fix

Add dictate and indicator gates to adapter selfcheck

Update macOS install resumption and progress for residual scrub

A5 pipewire PASS on Fedora QEMU with stream-measure ratio 0.998

Pull alsa-plugins-pulseaudio so Fedora arecord pulse devices work

Skip indicator check and restart when tray helper is not installed

Session-heal polls for speechlayer mix and re-bounces daemon if arecord missing

Keep speechlayer mix ensure after pulse recover when headless has no real mic

Guest-validate PULSE_SERVER unset recover on Ubuntu QEMU restart

Record Ubuntu QEMU systemd burn-in scorecard and partial gates

Unset PULSE_SERVER before pulseaudio start after kill so restart can recover

Lower TTS energy cancel so hot speaker mon no longer zeros talk-over residual

Fire residual barge on soft speaker monitor under high mic instead of hard skip

Trial barge knobs need two chunks residual 2500 and ratio thr 3.5

Require switch model to alias so bare model names stay prose

Preflight complete herdr commands in listen mode before the LLM

Fuzzy workspace match and richer voice targets for STT near-misses

Accept cubald-style client-site mishears in proper-noun rewrite

Add standalone kapish terminator model trainer

Freeze Artix Level-3 campaign work at host-gated stop-line

List single-host burn-in tickets and regression bar for adapters

Make status fix and session-heal accept pipewire-pulse without a pulseaudio process

Refuse ha commands on Darwin and route speechlayer test capture through adapters

Document A4 user units and expand Fedora dnf package list

Extend adapter-selfcheck for CLI residual gates

Add Linux adapter selfcheck covering macos force and launchd templates

Point resumption install and progress at the selfcheck regression bar

Add launchd installer so Mac templates are a real writer not just docs sed

Scaffold Windows inject HTTP shim and WSL2 platform overrides after W0

Point macos install and progress at launchd installer and Option C door

Add stream measure script with ratio and cadence gates for A5 and W0

Record Artix Pulse golden numbers for pipewire and WSLg comparison

Spell out WSLg W0 operator procedure without claiming a pass yet

Route macos beep pid check and speaker mon through adapters

Teach speechlayer CLI Darwin-safe status restart and session-heal paths

Skip the indicator cleanly when rumps is not installed

Add macOS resumption door for real-Mac burn-in next

Mark Option A A2 and A3 complete and fill INSTALL systemd install pointers

Document OpenRC versus systemd sudoers as mutually exclusive

Expand systemd Level 2 slices A1 to A6 and link them from INSTALL

Route speechlayer managed service control through SL_SVC without OpenRC-only copy

Write svc-backend on systemd install and sketch Fedora packages

Draft user unit and systemctl sudoers examples off by default

Spell out systemd Level 2 burn-in path unit gaps and first boot checklist

Scaffold macOS adapters for capture inject notify svc and paths

Add raw PCM capture helper that keeps the recording loop shape

Ship untested launchd templates and macOS install TCC notes

Opt-in systemd verbs via SL_SVC without auto-detecting init

Record Option B decision readiness table and half-contract review

Campaign brief for OS backends orchestrator after Phase 4 product close

Stop soft mon from free-firing ratio barge mid long readouts without killing real talk-over

Fix tts-barge set clamps that capped spk_k below real bleed and ratio thr at three

Count only real python daemon processes so supervise and grep noise stop false multi-daemon warnings

Free-wake idle gap so amber can show between turns without killing barge or wake

Seed free-wake recordings from the always-on PCM pre-roll so first words are not clipped

Mark Phase 4 executed, platform readiness table, listen free-wake idle and pre-roll notes

Stop free-wake from rearming while TTS still plays without killing barge or wake

Blank free-wake WAV during spoken acks so switching is not reheard as a new command

Drop command-shaped listen acks and herdr switch TTS plus short-window herdr dedupe

Ship always-on listen mode with CLI, rearm, intent LLM and plan executor

Show an amber listening state on the corner indicator while mode is armed

Fold known client-site mishears on every dictate herdr and phone path before routing

Document listen-mode harness files enter exit phrases and half-contract rules

Mark the OS-adapter split finished end-to-end so the plan matches the tree

Put every desktop notification under the single app name speechlayer so nothing collides with random voice daemons

Lock TTS energy-barge knobs so loud talk-over and hey speechlayer can interrupt without clipping clean playback

Age barge grace from first audio, not process start, so synthesize lag cannot burn the window

Keep a softer wake threshold even when energy barge is off so drowned speech still reaches hey speechlayer

Drop bare cancel as a cancel phrase so random prose no longer kills a recording

Prefer okay-go and kapish spelling variants for the mid-recording instant cut

Build the wake-word mic capture command through the OS adapter so the recording loop stays the same on every platform

Record and play audio through the OS adapter so capture tools can change without rewriting the scripts

Restart managed services through the OS adapter so Linux is not hard-wired into the CLI

Reclaim dead recording locks so a crashed capture cannot block the next wake forever

Let loud speech interrupt TTS playback, with knobs you can change without restarting

Treat Whisper's clipped 'her D' as 'herd d' so herd switching still works

Harden the keystroke-marker walker so unknown markers are dropped, not typed forever

Map full 'new session' phrases to /new after slash commands settle

Route every keystroke and window-focus call through the OS adapter so typing works the same on every platform

Preserve per-site xdotool flags including flag-less Escape and --delay 8 type

Revert bare 'go to <name>'; folder-noun required again (cd stays short form)

Accept bare 'go to <name>' (≤3 tokens) when not a herd/pane command

Harden folder resolve for whisper typos (client-site ≈ client-site) and TLD-ish tokens

Drop legacy project-as-herd entirely - project is filesystem-only now

Herds-and-folders.md voice cheat sheet (switch herd / folder nav / move session / resume pi)

Rebrand herdr workspaces as 'herd' (heard/workspace aliases), freeing 'project' for folder nav

Plain folder nav inside pi now exits pi then cds; only 'move session to X' uses pi /cd relocate

Add 'resume pi' -> pi -c

Add folder-navigation intent (go to folder / cd / go up|home|back) to wvd-herdr-control, zoxide-resolved, shell cd vs pi /cd

Send desktop notifications through the OS adapter so non-Linux backends can plug in

Note that notification app-names should be unified after the port, since the current ones are generic enough to clash with other apps

Record how the Linux dispatch layer was actually built, so the design matches the code

Add the per-OS dispatch layer with Linux implementations built in, ready for scripts to adopt

Add new-pane and pause keystroke macros so spoken herdr commands can open panes and let slash commands settle before submitting

Route all runtime state files through a single configurable directory instead of hardcoding /tmp

Inventory every OS-specific call site in the voice stack, grouped by adapter

Design the OS-adapter split (audio, keystrokes, notifications, services) with a step-by-step migration plan

Link the new portability design into the existing plan so the next phase is ready to start

Note that MATE hotkeys run the dconf action field not command, so a stale action still errors even when command looks right

Add scroll-in chat examples and modernize speechlayer landing page capabilities and privacy messaging

Add charming non-technical speechlayer landing page

Restructure speechlayer landing page; feature herdr voice control and TTS reply playback

Add plain-text ASCII-art landing page explaining speechlayer

Systemd StartLimitIntervalSec/Burst moved to [Unit] section (were silently ignored in [Service])

Debian/Ubuntu pkgs list drops bogus libnotify (aborted apt txn), adds python3-venv/pip + build-essential/cmake/git for whisper.cpp build

Venv installs use --no-deps so pip-freeze closures don't pull 3GB of nvidia CUDA wheels via misaki

Recreate broken venv lacking pip (failed earlier run left python3 but no pip)

Wake-word models missing is a warning not a verify failure (user-trained artifacts, not in repo)

Validated full install.sh systemd burn-in on Ubuntu 24.04 VM (all 4 units active, whisper.cpp built, transcription working)

Level-2/3 scrub - de-hardcode user mac, dual-ship systemd units

Phase 3b fully live - init.d copied, compat shims removed, full smoke matrix green

Root rename ~/scripts+~/.speechlayer -> ~/speechlayer with core/pi/net/training/media/lib subdirs

Accept 'panel' as spoken alias for pane

Phase 3a portability: SL_HOME parameterization

Phase 2 portability: install.sh + fetch-deps.sh

Phase 1 portability: system snapshots, requirements, models, INSTALL.md

Initial messy commit: ~/scripts + ~/.speechlayer as-is, pre-restructure