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Fix cross-platform dictation delivery - #1610

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Summary

  • bind dictation delivery to the shortcut-down target with guarded clipboard restoration
  • add truthful Inserted/Copied outcomes and safe platform fallbacks
  • improve ASR fallback/demotion behavior, PCM resampling, and session-generation isolation
  • add localized UI, docs, and regression coverage

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  • backend focused pytest: 102 passed
  • frontend focused Vitest: 100 passed
  • native Rust dictation tests: 17 passed; cargo check passed
  • Vite build, docs drift, formatting/lint, and mechanical checks passed

Dictation delivery now binds to the shortcut-down target, preserves the clipboard safely, reports Inserted or Copied, and isolates sessions across platforms. ASR fallback, silent-model demotion, bounded recovery audio, PCM resampling, Whisper Tiny defaults, Wayland behavior, localization, documentation, and regression coverage were updated. Review platform-specific insertion, clipboard restoration, and stale-session handling for target-focus edge cases.

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The PR revises dictation delivery across the native shell, frontend capture pipeline, and backend recognition paths.

  • Binds output delivery to native dictation sessions and guards clipboard restoration.
  • Bounds silent-model recovery audio and validates client-controlled sizing inputs.
  • Adds ASR fallback, PCM resampling, session isolation, localized outcomes, documentation, and regression coverage.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py Bounds recovery duration and sample rate, tracks a finite PCM tail, and adds silent-model fallback without leaving the previously reported unbounded paths reachable.
backend/services/asr_backend.py Updates dictation ASR selection, installed-model checks, and fallback behavior.
backend/services/sherpa_dictation.py Adds Sherpa model demotion and probing behavior used by dictation recovery.
frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs Implements platform-specific insertion, clipboard preservation, and delivery outcomes.
frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx Carries native output sessions through capture and reports truthful insertion or copy outcomes.
frontend/src/utils/aec/micCapture.js Adds capture-rate normalization and resampling for environments that reject a 16 kHz audio context.

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The pull request adds session-bound dictation output, Sherpa silent-model recovery, bounded audio retention, sample-rate normalization, and Whisper Tiny as the cross-platform default. It also updates tests, documentation, localization, preferences, and changelog entries.

Changes

Dictation backend and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sherpa recovery and ASR selection
backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py, backend/services/asr_backend.py, backend/services/sherpa_dictation.py, tests/test_*
Sherpa frames identify utterances and summaries. Silent recognizers recover through installed fallback ASR backends. Demoted models are excluded from selection. ASR results support text, segments, and chunks.
Sherpa model validation
backend/config/models.yaml, tests/test_sherpa_*, tests/test_asr_model_missing.py
Whisper Tiny is the cross-platform default. Native Sherpa loading failures become unavailable states. Preflight tests cover demotion and installed fallback requirements.

Native output and frontend orchestration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session-bound native delivery
frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs, frontend/src-tauri/src/commands.rs, frontend/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
Dictation output uses session IDs, target activation, clipboard leases, platform-specific insertion, and Wayland helper execution. Tauri commands expose session lifecycle operations.
Widget lifecycle handling
frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx, frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.test.jsx, frontend/src/test/CaptureWidget*.test.jsx
The widget serializes delivery, handles explicit Sherpa final kinds, ignores stale results, supports clipboard fallback, and coordinates capture startup and cleanup races.

Audio and model presentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
AEC sample-rate normalization
frontend/src/utils/aec/micCapture.js, frontend/src/utils/aec/playbackTap.js, frontend/src/utils/aec/*.test.js
Microphone and playback frames are resampled to requested rates. Suspended audio contexts are resumed when possible, and failed resumes produce mic-suspended.
Model defaults and supporting content
frontend/src/store/prefsSlice.ts, frontend/src/i18n/locales/*, docs/**, README.md, CHANGELOG.md, backend/config/models.yaml
Whisper Tiny is described as the cross-platform default. Dictation documentation, localized status and model text, preference defaults, and changelog entries are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to f436a

This PR changes dictation delivery, shortcut handling, transcription recovery, session lifecycle, and audio processing. The current head can still fail to deliver dictation, target the wrong window, drop final transcription text, or produce degraded audio results, so it should not merge until these correctness and availability issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 6

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Title check ⚠️ Warning The title lacks the required Conventional Commit type and scope, and it has no issue reference in the title or description. Use a title such as "fix(dictation): Fix cross-platform dictation delivery (#1610)" and include the issue reference in the title or body.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 53.64% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 110 functions across 18 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.) Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Cross-Platform Default Parity ⚠️ Warning dictation_output.rs defaults Linux Wayland to Copied, while macOS/Windows/X11 attempt insertion; the env opt-in only enables an alternate Wayland path, so Linux diverges. Make default delivery consistent across macOS, Windows, and Linux, or make insertion opt-in on every platform and keep the same default outcome.
I18n Completeness (21 Locales) ⚠️ Warning capture.inserted and capture.copied exist in all 21 locales, but new literals such as native output session unavailable reach the widget's user-facing title via errorInfo.message (Capture... Localize the new delivery-error detail strings, or keep internal diagnostics out of the rendered title; retain the generic localized error labels.
Backward Compatibility ⚠️ Warning The PR changes the implicit dictation default from Parakeet to Whisper Tiny; users without dictation.model_id and only Parakeet installed now hit the missing-model gate and must download Whisper. Preserve the legacy default for existing installations, or select an already-installed Sherpa model when dictation.model_id is absent; use Whisper Tiny only for new installs.
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Local-First Guarantee ✅ Passed The PR adds no cloud client, account flow, API key, or telemetry; ASR acquisition remains HuggingFace-only, and silent-model recovery requires an installed fallback without automatic downloads.

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backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py (1)

660-661: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

session_pcm grows without a bound for the whole streaming session.

The streaming handler now keeps every received PCM byte for the session. A mic left open at 16 kHz mono int16 adds ~115 MB per hour, and the buffer is only ever read when is_model_silent fires. Cap it to the amount recovery needs (a few minutes) and keep the tail.

♻️ Bound the recovery buffer
+    # Silent-model recovery only needs enough audio to prove the model is
+    # broken; cap the retained tail so a long open mic can't grow unbounded.
+    max_recovery_bytes = 120 * pcm_sr * 2
     session_pcm = bytearray()     # complete audio for silent-model recovery
     heard_speech = False
             session_pcm.extend(pcm)
+            if len(session_pcm) > max_recovery_bytes:
+                del session_pcm[:len(session_pcm) - max_recovery_bytes]
             if not heard_speech and _pcm16_rms(pcm) >= SHERPA_OFFLINE_RMS_FLOOR:
                 heard_speech = True

Note: _run_sherpa_offline accumulates the same way at line 810, so apply the same cap there.

Also applies to: 703-705

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In `@backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py` around lines 660 - 661, Bound the PCM
recovery buffers in the streaming handler and _run_sherpa_offline to a few
minutes of audio, retaining only the newest tail as bytes are appended. Ensure
the capped tail remains available when is_model_silent triggers recovery, and
apply the same limit to both session_pcm and the offline accumulation buffer.
backend/services/sherpa_dictation.py (1)

264-269: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The probe still raises for any failure that is not OSError/RuntimeError.

SherpaDictationBackend.is_available() calls this directly, and capture_ws.ws_transcribe calls that without a guard at line 234, so a native init failure raised as some other exception type still takes the WebSocket down. Catch Exception for the same reason you added these two types.

♻️ Fail closed on any probe failure
-    except (OSError, RuntimeError) as e:
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001 — a probe must report, never raise
         # Native wheel failures surface as OSError/RuntimeError rather than
         # ImportError (missing DLL/dylib/so, loader or runtime init failure).
         # Treat them as ordinary engine unavailability so model listing and the
         # dictation WebSocket can fall back instead of crashing the request.
         return False, f"sherpa-onnx unavailable ({type(e).__name__}): {e}"
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In `@backend/services/sherpa_dictation.py` around lines 264 - 269, Update the
exception handler in the Sherpa availability probe to catch any Exception, not
only OSError and RuntimeError, and preserve the existing unavailable result and
diagnostic message for all probe failures. Keep the change scoped to the probe’s
error handling.
frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs (1)

1167-1176: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

LinuxTool::command is unused and duplicates the mapping in linux_helper_ready_with.

No call site exists in this file; deliver_wayland uses string literals and linux_helper_ready_with re-derives the same names at lines 1190-1194. Delete command() or use it in both places, otherwise Linux builds carry a dead-code warning.

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In `@frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs` around lines 1167 - 1176, Remove
the unused LinuxTool::command method, or reuse it consistently in
deliver_wayland and linux_helper_ready_with instead of duplicating
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Inline comments:
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 13-17: Add the owning issue or pull-request reference in `(`#N`)`
format to the end of each new Highlights entry in the Unreleased section,
preserving the existing one-line wording and formatting.

In `@docs/engines/sherpa-onnx-asr.md`:
- Around line 28-38: Synchronize the model-list terminology by updating the
selection instructions to use “selectable,” matching the heading and the seven
entries in the model list.
- Around line 32-38: Update the seven sherpa model size entries in models.yaml
to the measured values 0.67, 0.66, 0.20, 0.24, 0.044, 0.025, and 0.104 GB,
matching the model order shown in the documentation and preserving all other
catalog metadata.

In `@frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs`:
- Around line 448-466: Move blocking clipboard I/O outside the state mutex in
all three sites: in frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs:448-466, update
copy_only to write the clipboard before locking state, following
stage_clipboard; in frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs:508-546, read the
lease under the lock, release it, perform clipboard read/restore, then re-lock
only to clear session.clipboard; in
frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs:557-576, validate lease.generation
under the lock, release it, then perform clipboard read/restore. Preserve the
existing stale-session and generation validation behavior.

In `@frontend/src/i18n/locales/de.json`:
- Around line 787-788: Add the missing capture.copied translation alongside
capture.inserted in frontend/src/i18n/locales/de.json:787-788, es.json:787-788,
fr.json:787-788, hi.json:787-788, id.json:787-788, uk.json:787-788,
vi.json:787-788, zh-CN.json:746-747, and zh-TW.json:787-788, using a real
translation appropriate to each locale. Run the locale parity test afterward.

In `@frontend/src/i18n/locales/nl.json`:
- Line 2473: Update the Dutch translation for the
“sherpa-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en” locale key to replace “live gedeeltelijke
beelden” with a term meaning interim transcription results, such as
“tussentijdse resultaten,” while preserving the rest of the translation.

In `@frontend/src/utils/aec/micCapture.js`:
- Around line 47-53: Update startMicCapture’s ctx.resume() rejection path so it
closes the audio context and propagates an error instead of continuing setup or
reporting success; add a test covering resume rejection and verifying cleanup
and error propagation.
- Around line 8-29: Replace the stateless linear interpolation in
resampleInterleavedFrame with a stateful band-limited resampler that applies
appropriate low-pass filtering before downsampling and preserves filter/phase
state across adjacent frames. Update callers as needed to retain that state, and
add a regression covering an above-output-Nyquist tone split across adjacent
frames that verifies the aliased component is attenuated.

In `@tests/test_asr_model_missing.py`:
- Around line 112-134: Ensure the tests in this class reset the module-global
_INSTALLED_REPO_MEMO before each test via an autouse fixture, so _repo_installed
does not retain Systran/faster-whisper-large-v3 from test execution order or
other modules; keep app-module imports localized as currently structured.

In `@tests/test_dictation_model_copy.py`:
- Around line 13-17: Add the Japanese literal from natural_prefixes in
test_dictation_model_copy.py to the approved allowlist in
test_no_hardcoded_cjk.py, including a justification that it is locale-specific
test fixture data. Keep the existing fixture unchanged.

In `@tests/test_locale_parity.py`:
- Around line 102-105: Update the locale-parity test to explicitly assert that
the changed dictation key exists in every locale before applying the reduced
missing-key baselines. Keep the aggregate count checks, but use the targeted key
assertion to ensure an unrelated translation change cannot satisfy the ratchet.

In `@tests/test_sherpa_ws_streaming.py`:
- Around line 236-240: Rewrite the affected docstring near the session-start
probe so the broken “After that Before demotion” phrasing becomes one clear
sentence, preserving the intent that recovery must verify the capture fallback
before invoking an auto-downloading ASR backend.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py`:
- Around line 660-661: Bound the PCM recovery buffers in the streaming handler
and _run_sherpa_offline to a few minutes of audio, retaining only the newest
tail as bytes are appended. Ensure the capped tail remains available when
is_model_silent triggers recovery, and apply the same limit to both session_pcm
and the offline accumulation buffer.

In `@backend/services/sherpa_dictation.py`:
- Around line 264-269: Update the exception handler in the Sherpa availability
probe to catch any Exception, not only OSError and RuntimeError, and preserve
the existing unavailable result and diagnostic message for all probe failures.
Keep the change scoped to the probe’s error handling.

In `@frontend/src-tauri/src/dictation_output.rs`:
- Around line 1167-1176: Remove the unused LinuxTool::command method, or reuse
it consistently in deliver_wayland and linux_helper_ready_with instead of
duplicating string-literal mappings; ensure Linux builds no longer carry the
dead-code warning.
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  • docs/specs/2026-07-16-dictation-flow-program.md
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  • frontend/src-tauri/src/commands.rs
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  • tests/test_dictation_model_copy.py
  • tests/test_dictation_router.py
  • tests/test_locale_parity.py
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  rather than only acting once it lands.
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frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx (4)

836-837: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep a fallback when Tauri listener registration fails.

If listen(...) throws, the catch only logs the error, while the inTauri() guard prevents the keyboard fallback from installing. Track native-listener readiness and keep the fallback active until registration succeeds.

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useEffect guarded by inTauri() to track whether native listen registration
succeeds; when listen(...) throws, retain or install the keyboard fallback
instead of only logging the error, and disable the fallback only after
successful native-listener registration.

1418-1423: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reconcile Sherpa summaries with the same canonical text.

committedRef stores msg.refined_text || msg.text, but sherpaSummaryTail receives only msg.text; a refined utterance can therefore make the EOF tail appear absent and skip its delivery. Pass the same canonical field to sherpaSummaryTail and cover differing text/refined_text values in a regression test.

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In `@frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx` around lines 1418 - 1423, Update
the summary branch in the Sherpa message handling flow to pass the same
canonical text used for committedRef—msg.refined_text || msg.text—to
sherpaSummaryTail instead of only msg.text. Add a regression test covering
differing text and refined_text values to verify the EOF tail is delivered.

879-895: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prevent native output after Escape. cancelSession clears the delivery chains and calls dismiss() without awaiting them; the native mutex makes finish_session wait for an active simulate_type/simulate_paste, but it does not cancel that input call, so text can still land after Escape. Retain and await the delivery promises, and add native cancellation or an emission guard before releasing the session.

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In `@frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx` around lines 879 - 895, Update
cancelSession and dismiss so in-flight delivery promises are retained and
awaited rather than discarded, and ensure native simulate_type/simulate_paste
input is cancelled or guarded from emitting before finishOutputSession releases
the session. Preserve the existing Escape cleanup and dismissal flow after
delivery has safely stopped.

653-664: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Guard asynchronous hides against a newer capture.

These paths call hideWidgetWindow() after an await without rechecking the capture sequence, so a new shortcut can start during the gap and its pill can be hidden. Capture the relevant generation or sequence and skip the stale hide and onDismiss when it changes.

Also applies to: 737-744, 879-895

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In `@frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx` around lines 653 - 664, Update
reconcileAccessibility and the other asynchronous hide paths to capture the
current capture generation or sequence before awaiting, then revalidate it
alongside the existing cancellation/state checks before calling hideWidgetWindow
or onDismiss. Skip both actions when a newer capture has started, including the
paths around the referenced hide and dismissal logic.
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Add the missing timing translations to every non-English locale.

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frontend/src/i18n/locales/ru.json:1039-1039,
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In `@frontend/src/components/CaptureWidget.jsx`:
- Around line 836-837: Update the useEffect guarded by inTauri() to track
whether native listen registration succeeds; when listen(...) throws, retain or
install the keyboard fallback instead of only logging the error, and disable the
fallback only after successful native-listener registration.
- Around line 1418-1423: Update the summary branch in the Sherpa message
handling flow to pass the same canonical text used for
committedRef—msg.refined_text || msg.text—to sherpaSummaryTail instead of only
msg.text. Add a regression test covering differing text and refined_text values
to verify the EOF tail is delivered.
- Around line 879-895: Update cancelSession and dismiss so in-flight delivery
promises are retained and awaited rather than discarded, and ensure native
simulate_type/simulate_paste input is cancelled or guarded from emitting before
finishOutputSession releases the session. Preserve the existing Escape cleanup
and dismissal flow after delivery has safely stopped.
- Around line 653-664: Update reconcileAccessibility and the other asynchronous
hide paths to capture the current capture generation or sequence before
awaiting, then revalidate it alongside the existing cancellation/state checks
before calling hideWidgetWindow or onDismiss. Skip both actions when a newer
capture has started, including the paths around the referenced hide and
dismissal logic.

In `@frontend/src/i18n/locales/fr.json`:
- Line 1039: Add the missing dub.timing_concise, dub.timing_stretch_video, and
dub.timing_strict_slot translations to
frontend/src/i18n/locales/fr.json:1039-1039,
frontend/src/i18n/locales/ja.json:1039-1039,
frontend/src/i18n/locales/ko.json:1039-1039,
frontend/src/i18n/locales/nl.json:1039-1039,
frontend/src/i18n/locales/ru.json:1039-1039,
frontend/src/i18n/locales/sv.json:1039-1039, and
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… on a dead context

Review round on #1610.

Bounded recovery audio (P1, both bots). Both socket paths retained every PCM
byte of a session so the silent-model fallback could re-transcribe it, with
nothing capping it — ~115 MB/hour at 16 kHz on an open mic, held for the
session and only ever read if the fallback fired. RecoveryTail keeps the most
recent two minutes and tracks the true total separately, because the
silent-model gate measures how much audio the session carried and trimming
must not make a long session look unrecoverable.

Anti-aliasing. resampleInterleavedFrame picks samples by linear interpolation,
which is not a low-pass: 48 kHz -> 16 kHz that way folds everything above
8 kHz into the speech band and feeds it to the recognizer. The browser only
hands back 48 kHz when it refuses the requested 16 kHz context — WKWebView
does — so this is the normal macOS path, not an edge case. Three cascaded
Butterworth biquads now sit in the audio graph, where the filter keeps state
across frame boundaries instead of restarting every frame.

Dead audio context. A rejected (or no-op) ctx.resume() left the context
suspended, so the worklet never ran, no frame was ever captured, and the pill
sat on 'Listening' forever. It now throws, which CaptureWidget already
surfaces as a mic error.

capture.copied was missing from all 20 non-English locales — and clipboard
delivery is the Wayland default, so every non-English Linux user read an
English string. Added, and the parity ratchet gains named-key assertions:
the aggregate count alone lets a locale gain one key and drop another
without moving.

sherpa_available() caught ImportError/OSError/RuntimeError, but an extension
module may raise anything at init, and ws_transcribe calls it unguarded — so
an unlisted type took the WebSocket down instead of degrading. It fails
closed now.

Declined: the clipboard-under-mutex finding — both focus-capture sites
already capture before locking, deliberately, so the claimed wrong-target
outcome cannot occur; details on the thread.
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In `@backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py`:
- Around line 481-483: Update the buffer trimming logic around
session_pcm.tail() to remove an even number of bytes, preserving PCM sample
alignment when excess is odd; add a regression test that fails with the current
trimming and passes after the change, covering an odd-byte excess after a split
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- Around line 101-105: Update the playback processing path around
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…c memo

Second review round on #1610.

- playbackTap decimates the AEC far-end reference exactly like the mic path,
  so it gets the same stateful low-pass before resampling — an aliased
  reference makes the canceller subtract tones the speaker never played.
  Filters sit only on the tap branch; the audible element→destination edge is
  untouched (CodeRabbit Major).
- RecoveryTail trims whole samples only. Transport frames can carry odd byte
  counts; the failure needs a stream that ends torn — an even total
  self-rebalances across trims, which is why the obvious test cannot fail and
  the committed one feeds a torn-end stream (mutation-checked both ways)
  (CodeRabbit).
- The sherpa framing probe's empty except now records WHY it degrades and
  what re-probes it (CodeQL).
- test_asr_model_missing clears _INSTALLED_REPO_MEMO around each test — the
  memoization test writes the very repo the missing-model tests probe, so run
  order decided what they saw (CodeRabbit).
- nl.json: 'live gedeeltelijke beelden' → 'live tussentijdse resultaten'
  (CodeRabbit).
…hangelog refs

Third review-harvest pass on #1610 — the items b242f8d did not cover:

- Clamp `?sr=` to 8-96 kHz in the sherpa WS path via a shared
  _bounded_sample_rate helper (Greptile P1). RecoveryTail sizes its byte
  ceiling from that rate, so an absurd client value re-opened the
  unbounded-memory path the tail cap closed; the legacy path already
  clamped, the sherpa path parsed int() raw. Regression tests pin the
  clamp and that both sherpa handlers parse through it.
- playbackTap detach now also removes the src->filter tap edge: ctx and
  src are memoised per element, so a chain left hanging off src would
  accumulate one dead filter chain per AEC toggle; the audible
  src->destination edge stays. Plus a skip-the-chain-at-equal-rates test.
- models.yaml sherpa sizes synced to the measured values the picker and
  docs already carry — the Model Catalogue still advertised the
  3-4x-wrong figures — with a lockstep test so the copies can't drift
  again (CodeRabbit).
- CHANGELOG Unreleased highlights now carry their (#N) refs (CodeRabbit).
- nl.json: 'Gekonieerd!' typo -> 'Gekopieerd!'.

Declined: CJK allowlisting for tests/test_dictation_model_copy.py —
test files are already blanket-allowed by _is_allowed in
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568-570: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Discard a torn final PCM byte before fallback transcription.

RecoveryTail can retain a torn final byte at EOF, so line 568 can send non-frame-aligned int16 PCM to the fallback. Trim pcm to an even length before _transcribe_buffer_full and add a recovery regression; as per coding guidelines, “Fix the root cause with a fail-before/pass-after regression test and the smallest correct change.”

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In `@backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py` around lines 568 - 570, Before the
fallback call to _transcribe_buffer_full, trim pcm to an even byte length so
RecoveryTail’s torn final int16 byte is discarded; preserve the existing
transcription flow for aligned data, and add a regression test covering the
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In `@frontend/src/utils/aec/playbackTap.js`:
- Around line 85-91: Update detach’s source-disconnection logic to disconnect
antiAlias[0] when a filter chain exists, or node when antiAlias is empty,
preventing stale worklet connections across repeated cycles. Adjust the
matching-rate test to cover the no-filter-chain fallback while preserving the
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In `@backend/api/routers/capture_ws.py`:
- Around line 568-570: Before the fallback call to _transcribe_buffer_full, trim
pcm to an even byte length so RecoveryTail’s torn final int16 byte is discarded;
preserve the existing transcription flow for aligned data, and add a regression
test covering the torn-byte failure before the fix and successful aligned
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