perf(dub,stream): reuse cached segments, batch the default engine, report real TTFA - #1620
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…port real TTFA Three pieces of the roadmap's performance/quality block, recovered from an uncommitted worktree and rebased onto current main. Dub re-mix: a cached natural-rate segment went load -> scratch write -> reload on every re-mix. Same-rate cached audio is now reused directly without retaining tensors. Two correctness bugs surfaced alongside it and are fixed with it: switching from strict timing to another mode could reuse slot-truncated audio as if it were natural-rate, and RVC ignored natural-rate modes. A corrupt cache still degrades safely, and a foreign-sample-rate cache falls back to resampling. Batching: the batch-dub queue now feeds the default engine native 8-segment batches through a backward-compatible generate_batch adapter, with per-item duration/language/speed. Engines that do not implement it keep the per-segment path. /ws/tts: TTFA was derived from the whole render, so it reported render time rather than latency. It now measures to the first audio bytes, and render time and RTF are measured rather than inferred. The batch.py hunk needed a merge: main's device-capability timeout (generate_timeout_s(..., engine=backend)) and this branch's batch-cache lookup both touch the same call, and both are kept.
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| backend/api/routers/dub_generate.py | Reuses validated natural-rate cache paths, handles timing-strategy transitions, preserves natural-rate RVC output, and safely falls back when deferred decoding fails. |
| backend/api/routers/batch.py | Adds host-capacity-derived native batching with bounded widths, batch timeout budgeting, and per-segment fallback. |
| backend/services/tts_backend.py | Adds a compatible batch adapter and an OmniVoice native implementation preserving per-item generation controls. |
| backend/api/routers/tts_stream.py | Measures first-audio latency, end-to-end delivery time, and synthesis-only RTF using a consistent monotonic clock. |
| tests/test_smart_fit_generate.py | Covers natural-cache reuse, foreign-rate fallback, strategy transitions, and corrupt-cache degradation. |
| tests/test_dub_batch_width_and_budget.py | Covers batch width and timeout policies along with RIFF cache-integrity edge cases. |
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Streaming timing metrics
Cache-aware dubbing remixing
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In `@backend/api/routers/batch.py`:
- Around line 287-330: Change the native batching flow around batched_audio and
the batch-render loop to render and place each batch immediately instead of
accumulating tensors for the entire language. Consume each batch’s generated
audio during the same iteration, release its tensors before processing the next
batch, and update progress from the batch’s actual placement so it advances
monotonically without restarting at segment 1.
- Around line 356-370: Update the batch timeout calculation near
_render_native_batch to use one device-aware floor plus the summed per-item
length overages, rather than summing complete generate_timeout_s results and
multiplying the floor by batch size; pass engine=backend to generate_timeout_s
so CPU and GPU hosts receive the correct floor, while preserving the existing
timeout passed to run_on_gpu_pool_guarded.
- Line 309: Replace the unconditional batch_width = 8 behavior with an explicit
opt-in or device-capability gate that prevents widened batching by default on
4–8 GB CUDA hosts and MPS/Apple Silicon, while preserving safe behavior
elsewhere. Use the surrounding batch-processing configuration and detected
device/VRAM symbols to implement the smallest change, ensuring platform-specific
batching is never enabled implicitly.
In `@backend/api/routers/tts_stream.py`:
- Around line 344-357: Update the streaming timing logic around the
run_on_gpu_pool_guarded calls to accumulate GPU synthesis elapsed time
separately for rtf, excluding send_bytes and asyncio.sleep delivery delays. Keep
finished_at minus t0 for the existing end-to-end gen_time metric, and calculate
rtf from the accumulated synthesis time divided by audio duration.
Apply the same fix in `@docs/performance.md` around lines 243 - 245: The
documentation currently describes a different timing basis than the emitted
metric.
In `@docs/ROADMAP.md`:
- Line 200: Update the “Batched TTS” roadmap entry to advertise only
eight-segment native batches, matching the documented and implemented behavior;
do not claim 16-segment support unless a tested 16-segment path already exists.
- Line 196: Rename the Markdown file from ROADMAP.md to roadmap.md to comply
with lowercase filename conventions, and update all repository references to the
new path.
In `@docs/specs/03-longform-studio-editor.md`:
- Line 33: Update the cache-key description for
backend/api/routers/dub_generate.py to document the language-qualified
dub_seg_path(job_id, f"{lang_code}_{seg_key}") form, and remove the stale
“(113)” location reference while preserving the surrounding behavior
description.
In `@tests/test_text_normalization_routes.py`:
- Around line 306-340: Update the native batch pipeline test around
_NativeBatchEngine.generate and batch_calls so the single-item fallback cannot
be silently swallowed: record any invocation of generate and assert that it was
never called after _run_batch_pipeline completes. Keep the existing
generate_batch call-size and duration assertions, ensuring the test fails if
processing falls back to single-item generation.
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…render lazily Review round on #1620 — three Majors, all valid. Batch width was a fixed 8 with no capability check. The default engine declares min_vram_gb = 6.0 for ONE job, so an unconditional 8-wide forward pass could OOM 4-8 GB CUDA cards and MPS Macs on a path that succeeds today one segment at a time — #1616 is a 4 GB card already reporting capacity failures. The width now follows measured headroom (1 on CPU and low-VRAM hosts, stepping to 2/4/8), an unprobeable host takes the safe path, and OMNIVOICE_DUB_BATCH_WIDTH overrides it. Batch budget summed generate_timeout_s across the batch, but that returns a floor (300s GPU / 600s CPU) plus length overage — eight items yielded ~2400s, so a wedged batch would hold a pool worker for forty minutes before the #730 reset. One floor now covers wedge detection for the call; only the length-driven overage is additive. Prerendering every batch before placement held the whole language track in host RAM and made the progress bar run to the end and restart at segment 1. Batches are now rendered on demand and popped as they are placed, so peak memory is one batch. RTF was derived from the wall clock, which includes socket delivery and the per-chunk event-loop yields — a slow consumer inflated it as if the engine had gotten slower. Synthesis time is now accumulated around the render calls and RTF uses that; gen_time_s remains the end-to-end figure. Greptile: the natural-rate fast path handed the mixer a path after reading only the header, so a truncated cache would fail during assembly — after the Smart Fit / video-stretch plan had been computed from the header's frame count. The declared frame count is now checked against the file size, without decoding; a mismatch falls through to the decode path that already degrades to a warning plus silence. Declined: renaming docs/ROADMAP.md. The file predates this PR, CLAUDE.md references it by name, and a repo-wide rename is not this PR's business.
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182-201: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse ordered timestamps in the timing test.
The sequence on Line 184 returns
100.125after100.20, despite the documented_perf_countercall order. This can validate a TTFA that occurs before the completed synthesis interval. Use increasing ticks that match the intended audio-emission order.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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448-454: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPrevent repeated native-batch retries after a fallback.
_prefetch_batchcatches a native-batch exception and leavesbatched_audioempty. On Line 533, each later segment retries an overlapping failed batch beforegenerate, so one persistent adapter error creates many failed GPU calls. Record failed batch indices and bypass_prefetch_batchfor them so each segment uses the fallback once.Also applies to: 533-534
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624-639: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRegenerate when the language-scoped cache is missing.
As per path instructions, existing
omnivoice_data/projects must remain usable without manual migration. The guard checks only_wav_kind, so a legacy multi-language job with flat"natural"metadata can keep partialregen_onlyafter_legacy_seg_cache_okrejects its unkeyed cache; clearregen_onlywhen any requiredseg_{lang}_{id}.wavis absent, or lines [781-850] replace unchanged segments with silence.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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1413-1427: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep timing plans consistent with recovery audio.
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stretch_videoandsmart_fit, planning uses_entry_num_samplesbefore this load, but this branch inserts(end - start)slot silence when a natural-rate cache cannot decode; the persisted plan can describe a different duration from the rendered track. Decode or validate the entry before planning, or replace the entry and recompute the affected layout or fit plan from the fallback length.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@backend/api/routers/dub_generate.py`:
- Around line 101-106: Update the cached-path validation helper and its caller
around the metadata checks and direct-reuse decision: return False whenever
frame, channel, or bit-depth metadata is missing or invalid, and validate the
actual audio data chunk (or decode it) rather than comparing total container
size with payload bytes. Preserve direct reuse only for verified complete data,
and add a regression case covering a valid header with a truncated payload.
In `@backend/api/routers/tts_stream.py`:
- Around line 309-315: The synthesis timer around run_on_gpu_pool_guarded
currently includes GPU-pool queue wait; adjust the TTS generation flow to
measure only worker execution time, either by timing inside the guarded worker
callback or using an execution-duration result from run_on_gpu_pool_guarded.
Update synth_time/rtf accordingly and add a regression test proving queued time
is excluded.
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In `@backend/api/routers/batch.py`:
- Around line 448-454: Track the segment indices for native batches that fail in
_prefetch_batch, and have the later per-segment generation path skip
_prefetch_batch for any failed batch so it proceeds directly to generate.
Preserve normal prefetching for successful batches and ensure each failed
segment uses the fallback only once.
In `@backend/api/routers/dub_generate.py`:
- Around line 624-639: Update the strategy-transition guard around _wav_kind to
also require a valid language-scoped segment WAV cache before honoring partial
regen_only. When _legacy_seg_cache_ok rejects a legacy or incomplete cache,
clear regen_only and force full regeneration so missing seg_{lang}_{id}.wav
files cannot be replaced with silence; preserve partial regeneration only when
all required language-scoped WAVs exist.
- Around line 1413-1427: Keep the timing plan used by stretch_video and
smart_fit consistent with fallback audio: before calling _entry_num_samples and
creating the plan, decode or validate each cached entry, and when recovery
substitutes silence for a failed natural-rate cache, replace the entry with that
fallback and recompute the affected layout or fit plan using its actual sample
length.
In `@tests/test_text_normalization_routes.py`:
- Around line 182-201: Update the _perf_counter tick sequence in the timing test
to use strictly increasing timestamps matching the documented call order:
request start, synthesis start, synthesis end, first audio byte, and completion.
Keep the TTFA, generation-time, duration, and RTF assertions aligned with the
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… the worker Second review round on #1620. - _cached_payload_intact now fails CLOSED on undecidable metadata (these caches are PCM WAVs this module writes itself; the decode path handles everything else) and requires the payload to fit alongside the 44-byte RIFF container, so a truncation smaller than the header can't hide in the header's own bytes (Greptile + CodeRabbit). - /ws/tts synthesis time is now measured inside the pool worker, so queue wait under contention no longer inflates rtf (CodeRabbit). - The native-batch fallback guard is falsifiable now: _gen swallows the sentinel raise into a job warning + silence, so the test asserts no warnings — the absence of fallback evidence — instead of relying on the swallowed raise (CodeRabbit). - Spec doc: the dub cache key is language-qualified via _seg_lang_path; documented as such (CodeRabbit).
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101-116: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject invalid positive sample widths before trusting the cache.
At Line [115],
bits // 8counts zero bytes forbits=1and undercounts widths such as 12 bits, so truncated caches can pass validation and enter the direct-reuse path at Lines [812-816]. Require a validated byte width orblock_align, and add regression cases for these metadata values.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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807-819: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep cache recovery consistent with the timing plan.
Because Lines [817-819] store only
seg_wav_path, a header-readable but decode-invalid cache can shape thestretch_videoorsmart_fitplan from stale frame metadata. Lines [1423-1437] then replace it with slot-length silence, while a file removed after validation can fail_entry_num_samplesbefore recovery runs; decode or revalidate direct-reuse entries before planning, or propagate the fallback duration into the plan.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 33: Update the remaining cache-path documentation to describe the
language-qualified segment filename format seg_{lang}_{id}.wav, and explicitly
identify seg_{seg_id}.wav as a legacy fallback. Keep the documentation
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In `@backend/api/routers/dub_generate.py`:
- Around line 101-116: Update the cache validation logic around the bits,
frames, and channels metadata to reject unsupported or non-byte-aligned positive
sample widths before computing payload size. Derive and validate a positive byte
width or use validated block_align, then calculate the expected PCM payload
without truncation; add regression coverage for 1-bit and 12-bit metadata while
preserving the existing invalid-metadata fail-closed behavior.
- Around line 807-819: Update the direct-reuse path in the segment-cache
handling around cached_info and all_segment_wavs so entries are decode-valid and
remain valid before influencing stretch_video or smart_fit timing plans.
Revalidate or decode each cached seg_wav_path during planning, and ensure
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The line 33 fix left line 35 still describing the unqualified seg_{id}.wav
as the current layout; it is the legacy fallback (_legacy_seg_cache_ok).
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Three pieces of the roadmap's performance/quality block. This work was written in an earlier session but never committed — it sat as 607 uncommitted lines in a worktree on an unrelated branch, so this PR is its rescue onto current
main.Dub re-mix: stop the round-trip
A cached natural-rate segment went load → scratch write → reload on every re-mix. Same-rate cached audio is now reused directly, without retaining tensors (the memory-bounded rewrite's constraint still holds).
Two correctness bugs surfaced while auditing that path and are fixed with it:
A corrupt cache still degrades safely, and a foreign-sample-rate cache falls back to resampling rather than taking the fast path.
Batching
The batch-dub queue now feeds the default engine native 8-segment batches through a backward-compatible
generate_batchadapter, carrying per-item duration, language, and speed. Engines that don't implement it keep the per-segment path unchanged — this is an opt-in capability, not a required interface./ws/tts: report the metric it claims toTTFA was derived from the whole render, so it reported render time wearing a latency label. It now measures to the first audio bytes actually emitted; render time and RTF are measured rather than inferred.
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batch.pyneeded a real resolution rather than a mechanical one. Main gained the device-capability timeout from #1598 (generate_timeout_s(seg_text, engine=backend)) and this branch added the batch-cache lookup — both touch the same call site, and both are kept.Verification
tests/test_smart_fit_generate.py(+168) andtests/test_text_normalization_routes.py(+84), plusbackend/tests/test_tts_backend_lifecycle.pyfor the adapter.docs/performance.mdanddocs/ROADMAP.mdupdated.No measured before/after numbers are claimed here — the cache round-trip removal is a structural change, and I'd rather land the committed ≤5% benchmark baselines (the next roadmap item) than quote a one-off local figure.
The PR reuses valid natural-rate cache audio, adds capacity-aware native batching through
generate_batch, and measures TTFA from first audio emission while separating render-time RTF. It reduces disk and memory use while preserving per-item controls and fallback behavior. Human review should focus on batch fallback, timeout budgeting, and corrupt or foreign-rate cache handling.