Put the modules in a package and the scripts in a folder

Twenty-two files at the top of the tree was the first thing anybody saw of
this repository. They are one package now, imported relatively, and the three
scripts that are not the front door moved under scripts/. install.sh stays
where the README has always said it is.

What starts the application is dikte/__main__.py: python3 -m dikte runs it,
and so does naming the file, which is what the launcher symlink, both .desktop
files, the macOS bundle and every registered shortcut do. Run by path there is
no package around it, so it puts the checkout on sys.path itself.

The installers now keep the keys you chose when they are given none, which is
what an update is: update.sh no longer has to read them out and pass them back.
An updater from before this commit cannot read them at all, so the one thing it
can say, the default key with an empty discard key, is read as "nothing was
asked for" rather than obeyed. That guard can go once nobody is updating across
this commit.
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"""The dictation chain: transcribe → clean up → clipboard → paste.
The same chain also carries the other thing a dictation can be. Asked to, it
hands the transcript to Claude Code instead of pasting it, and pastes back
whatever came of it: an answer to a question, or a sentence saying what was
done.
"""
import os
import shutil
import sys
import threading
import time
import traceback
from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal
from . import api
from . import assistant
from . import audio
from . import cleanup
from . import config as cfg
from . import i18n
from . import paste
from . import vad
from .i18n import t
CHUNK_SECONDS = audio.CHUNK_FRAMES / audio.RATE
# A dictation and a command to the agent run side by side and can finish at the
# same moment. Pasting is not one step but three that must not interleave: read
# what is on the clipboard, put ours there, press the key. Two runs doing that
# at once would paste one answer and restore the other's clipboard over it.
_paste_lock = threading.Lock()
class Pipeline(QObject):
stage = pyqtSignal(str) # human-readable progress line
finished = pyqtSignal(str, str, str) # raw transcript, final text, warning
failed = pyqtSignal(str)
cancelled = pyqtSignal()
def __init__(self, conf, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self.conf = conf
self._thread = None
self._stop = threading.Event()
@property
def busy(self):
return self._thread is not None and self._thread.is_alive()
def run(self, wav_path, duration, rms_values=(), ask=False, paste=None):
"""`paste` overrides the setting for this one run, which is what a
dictation asked for from a terminal wants: the text comes back down the
socket, and pasting it into whatever had focus is nobody's intention."""
if self.busy:
return
self._stop.clear()
self._thread = threading.Thread(
target=self._work,
args=(wav_path, duration, list(rms_values), ask, paste),
daemon=True,
)
self._thread.start()
def cancel(self):
"""Give up on a job already under way.
Only the Claude call can honour this, and it is the only one long enough
to be worth interrupting: a transcription is over in seconds, a command
that went looking through the web is not.
"""
self._stop.set()
def _work(self, wav_path, duration, rms_values, ask, paste_override=None):
conf = self.conf
started = time.monotonic()
raw = ""
# Room tone only: don't spend an API call, and don't invite a
# hallucinated sentence back.
if conf["skip_silent"]:
stats = vad.analyse(rms_values, CHUNK_SECONDS, conf["speech_margin_db"])
if vad.is_silent(stats, conf["silence_db"], conf["speech_margin_db"],
conf["min_voiced_seconds"]):
self._discard(wav_path)
self.failed.emit(
t("No speech detected ({level} dB)", level=round(stats["speech_db"]))
)
return
try:
self.stage.emit(t("Transcribing…"))
target = conf.transcribe_target()
raw = api.transcribe(
target,
wav_path,
language=conf["language"],
prompt=conf["transcribe_prompt"],
)
if conf["filter_hallucinations"] and vad.looks_like_hallucination(raw, duration):
self._discard(wav_path)
self.failed.emit(t("Discarded a stock phrase: “{text}", text=raw[:60]))
return
text = raw
warning = ""
# Claude reads through “eee” and “hani” without help, so a dictation
# on its way there is normally sent as it was heard, one API call and
# a second or two lighter.
if (conf["assistant_cleanup"] if ask else conf["cleanup_enabled"]):
self.stage.emit(t("Cleaning up…"))
try:
text = cleanup.run(raw, conf, conf.cleanup_prompt())
except api.ApiError as exc:
# Keep the transcript, but never let the failure pass unseen:
# a rejected key would otherwise look like working dictation.
text = raw
warning = str(exc)
print(f"dikte: cleanup failed: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
question = ""
if ask:
question = text
self.stage.emit(t("Asking {name}", name=i18n.name(
assistant.display_name(conf), "dative")))
text, denied = assistant.ask(
question, conf,
on_stage=self.stage.emit,
should_stop=self._stop.is_set,
)
warning = "\n".join(x for x in (warning, denied) if x)
wants_paste = (conf["assistant_paste"] if ask else conf["auto_paste"])
if paste_override is not None:
wants_paste = paste_override
with _paste_lock:
previous = (paste.read_clipboard()
if conf["restore_clipboard"] and wants_paste else None)
try:
paste.copy(text)
if wants_paste:
self.stage.emit(t("Pasting…"))
paste.press(conf["paste_shortcut"])
finally:
if previous is not None:
# Let the focused application consume the temporary
# transcription before putting every old clipboard type
# back. This also runs when key injection fails.
time.sleep(0.35)
paste.copy_bytes(previous)
cfg.append_history({
"ts": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
"duration": round(duration, 1),
"elapsed": round(time.monotonic() - started, 1),
"model": target.model,
"cleanup_model": cleanup.model(conf) if conf["cleanup_enabled"] else "",
"cleanup_error": warning,
"mode": "ask" if ask else "",
"question": question,
"assistant_model": conf["assistant_model"] if ask else "",
"raw": raw,
"text": text,
})
try:
cfg.trim_history(conf["history_limit"])
except OSError as exc:
print(f"dikte: could not trim the history: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
self.finished.emit(raw, text, warning)
except assistant.Cancelled:
self.cancelled.emit()
except (api.ApiError, paste.PasteError, assistant.AssistantError) as exc:
print(f"dikte: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
self.failed.emit(str(exc))
except Exception as exc: # never fail silently
traceback.print_exc()
self.failed.emit(t("Unexpected error: {error}", error=exc))
finally:
self._discard(wav_path)
def _discard(self, wav_path):
if not os.path.exists(wav_path):
return
if self.conf["keep_audio"]:
try:
cfg.RECORDINGS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
shutil.move(wav_path, cfg.RECORDINGS_DIR / (time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") + ".wav"))
return
except OSError:
pass
try:
os.unlink(wav_path)
except OSError:
pass