Record a meeting from both sides, and write its minutes

Who said what is the hard part of a meeting transcript, and the usual answer
is to hand one mixed recording to a model and ask it to tell the voices apart.
That guess is wrong often enough to be worse than useless in minutes, where a
decision attributed to the wrong person is a decision nobody made.

So the question never reaches a model. ffmpeg records the microphone and the
default sink's monitor as one stereo stream, you on the left and everyone else
on the right, and one process reading both is what keeps them aligned over an
hour. Each channel is transcribed on its own and the two are interleaved on a
single timeline, so attribution is settled by the wire a voice arrived on.
What a microphone picks up from the speakers lands on both channels; our copy
is dropped when it overlaps theirs in time and says nearly the same thing.

The stream is written to disk as it arrives rather than held in memory, so
length costs nothing and a crash costs the tail instead of the whole meeting.
Every stage the run reaches is recorded in meetings.jsonl, so a failure while
summarising does not throw away the transcription of an hour of audio: the
retry reads the transcript back out of the document and picks up from there.
A run that dies keeps its recording whether or not audio is being kept.

The minutes model is configured on its own, under Settings, with its own
prompt, and it is told who was expected in the room so the names come out
spelled right. It is told outright that the transcript is a record of other
people talking, not instructions addressed to it.

The built-in listener now holds several bindings rather than one, and the KDE
side is parameterised by desktop id, so the meeting toggle gets a shortcut of
its own on the same footing as the dictation one.
This commit is contained in:
yusufipk
2026-07-28 16:32:31 +07:00
parent 0bdee07564
commit 352f7b6c22
11 changed files with 1783 additions and 82 deletions
+42 -28
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@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal
from i18n import t
DESKTOP_ID = "dikte-toggle.desktop"
DESKTOP_FILE = pathlib.Path.home() / ".local/share/applications" / DESKTOP_ID
MEETING_DESKTOP_ID = "dikte-meeting.desktop"
APPLICATIONS_DIR = pathlib.Path.home() / ".local/share/applications"
DESKTOP_FILE = APPLICATIONS_DIR / DESKTOP_ID
SHORTCUTS_FILE = pathlib.Path.home() / ".config/kglobalshortcutsrc"
# --- evdev key codes (linux/input-event-codes.h) --------------------------
@@ -61,13 +63,13 @@ def parse_shortcut(text):
# --- built-in listener ----------------------------------------------------
class EvdevHotkey(QObject):
"""Catches a global shortcut by reading /dev/input directly.
"""Catches global shortcuts by reading /dev/input directly.
It does not swallow the key; the focused application sees the combination
too. This is the fallback that works before the KDE shortcut goes live.
"""
triggered = pyqtSignal()
triggered = pyqtSignal(str) # the name the binding was registered under
failed = pyqtSignal(str)
EVENT_FMT = "llHHi"
@@ -77,18 +79,27 @@ class EvdevHotkey(QObject):
super().__init__(parent)
self._thread = None
self._stop = threading.Event()
self._mods = set()
self._key = None
self._bindings = {} # key code -> [(mods, name)]
@property
def running(self):
return self._thread is not None and self._thread.is_alive()
def start(self, shortcut):
def start(self, bindings):
"""`bindings` is {name: 'Ctrl+Space'}; an empty combination is skipped."""
self.stop()
mods, key = parse_shortcut(shortcut)
if key is None:
self.failed.emit(t("Could not parse the shortcut: {shortcut}", shortcut=shortcut))
parsed = {}
for name, shortcut in bindings.items():
if not shortcut:
continue
mods, key = parse_shortcut(shortcut)
if key is None:
self.failed.emit(
t("Could not parse the shortcut: {shortcut}", shortcut=shortcut)
)
continue
parsed.setdefault(key, []).append((mods, name))
if not parsed:
return False
devices = self._open_devices()
if not devices:
@@ -97,7 +108,7 @@ class EvdevHotkey(QObject):
" sudo usermod -aG input $USER (then log out and back in)"
))
return False
self._mods, self._key = mods, key
self._bindings = parsed
self._stop.clear()
self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._loop, args=(devices,), daemon=True)
self._thread.start()
@@ -138,9 +149,10 @@ class EvdevHotkey(QObject):
continue
if code in ALL_MOD_CODES:
held.add(code) if value else held.discard(code)
elif code == self._key and value == 1:
if self._mods_match(held):
self.triggered.emit()
elif value == 1:
for mods, name in self._bindings.get(code, ()):
if self._mods_match(held, mods):
self.triggered.emit(name)
finally:
for fd in fds:
try:
@@ -148,28 +160,30 @@ class EvdevHotkey(QObject):
except OSError:
pass
def _mods_match(self, held):
@staticmethod
def _mods_match(held, wanted):
for name, codes in MODS.items():
if name in ("control", "super"):
continue
canonical = "ctrl" if name == "control" else name
pressed = any(code in held for code in codes)
if pressed != (canonical in self._mods):
if pressed != (name in wanted):
return False
return True
# --- KDE custom shortcut --------------------------------------------------
def install_kde_shortcut(shortcut, exec_command, name="Dikte: start/stop recording"):
def install_kde_shortcut(shortcut, exec_command, name="Dikte: start/stop recording",
desktop_id=DESKTOP_ID):
"""Write the desktop file and the kglobalshortcutsrc entry.
KWin only reads that file at startup, so the entry goes live after the next
login. Returns (True, message) or (False, error).
"""
desktop_file = APPLICATIONS_DIR / desktop_id
try:
DESKTOP_FILE.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
DESKTOP_FILE.write_text(
desktop_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
desktop_file.write_text(
"[Desktop Entry]\n"
f"Exec={exec_command}\n"
f"Name={name}\n"
@@ -185,7 +199,7 @@ def install_kde_shortcut(shortcut, exec_command, name="Dikte: start/stop recordi
try:
subprocess.run(
["kwriteconfig6", "--notify", "--file", "kglobalshortcutsrc",
"--group", "services", "--group", DESKTOP_ID,
"--group", "services", "--group", desktop_id,
"--key", "_launch", shortcut],
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=10, check=True,
)
@@ -200,31 +214,31 @@ def install_kde_shortcut(shortcut, exec_command, name="Dikte: start/stop recordi
)
def remove_kde_shortcut():
def remove_kde_shortcut(desktop_id=DESKTOP_ID):
try:
DESKTOP_FILE.unlink(missing_ok=True)
(APPLICATIONS_DIR / desktop_id).unlink(missing_ok=True)
except OSError:
pass
try:
subprocess.run(
["kwriteconfig6", "--notify", "--file", "kglobalshortcutsrc",
"--group", "services", "--group", DESKTOP_ID, "--key", "_launch", "--delete"],
"--group", "services", "--group", desktop_id, "--key", "_launch", "--delete"],
capture_output=True, timeout=10,
)
except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError):
pass
def kde_shortcut_status():
def kde_shortcut_status(desktop_id=DESKTOP_ID):
"""The registered shortcut, or None."""
if not DESKTOP_FILE.exists():
if not (APPLICATIONS_DIR / desktop_id).exists():
return None
try:
text = SHORTCUTS_FILE.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
except OSError:
return None
match = re.search(
r"\[services\]\[" + re.escape(DESKTOP_ID) + r"\]\n_launch=([^\n]*)", text
r"\[services\]\[" + re.escape(desktop_id) + r"\]\n_launch=([^\n]*)", text
)
if not match:
return None
@@ -232,7 +246,7 @@ def kde_shortcut_status():
return value or None
def conflicting_shortcuts(shortcut):
def conflicting_shortcuts(shortcut, desktop_id=DESKTOP_ID):
"""Names of other KDE entries bound to the same combination."""
try:
text = SHORTCUTS_FILE.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
@@ -243,7 +257,7 @@ def conflicting_shortcuts(shortcut):
if line.startswith("["):
section = line.strip("[]").replace("][", " / ")
continue
if "=" not in line or DESKTOP_ID in section:
if "=" not in line or desktop_id in section:
continue
key, _, value = line.partition("=")
if shortcut.lower() in value.lower().split(","):