The paste block was rewritten by both sides: master taught press() to
put the remembered application back in front (focus), this branch moved
the history write ahead of the paste and stopped restoring the old
clipboard over a transcript the key press refused. Kept this branch's
order and error handling, and handed press() the focus it now takes.
doctor judged the local provider by the API key it does not use, so a
fully local machine always saw a red mark, and it crashed outright with
local cleanup picked; both lines now ask readiness. config list printed
the Groq key in plaintext while masking the other two. The one subprocess
decoded with the locale codepage gets its UTF-8 back, so a Turkish
filename cannot hang a file transcription, and a redirected stdout on
Windows replaces what it cannot encode instead of failing after the work
succeeded. meeting-cancel stops advertising a --wait the server never
honoured. "you" and "bye" leave the hallucination list: people dictate
them. The minutes stage failing no longer burns the transcription
checkpoint, and an untouched meeting-length dial no longer rewrites a
value the command line set in seconds. A prompt box compared against the
wrong language's default after a switch no longer fossilizes the old
default as a custom prompt.
The 67 strings of the local-model box, the whole first-run screen of the
shipped default, get their Turkish. The hub cache moves to the platform's
cache directory instead of ~/.cache on every system; the old directory is
a few orphaned kilobytes with a six-hour shelf life. The last NO_WINDOW
spellings collapse into the constant paths already carries, one
windowed-executable lookup, one session-file reader, one install-record
reader, one download progress signal carrying its destination, and the
KDE conflict scan loses the branch its other branch already covered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
An hour and a half of speech came back as "OpenRouter: HTTP 502: The
operation was aborted due to timeout", every time. The upload limit was
the only thing deciding where the file was cut, and mp3 at 48 kbps
reaches 24 MB after an hour, so a 90 minute file became two chunks and
the first one was 63 minutes of audio in a single request. Nothing
between here and the model stays on the line that long.
A chunk is capped at fifteen minutes now, whatever it weighs, and the
call is finally handed a timeout of its own: it was going out on the 300
second default sized for a dictation, which the same chunk would have
hit first anyway.
The other half is not throwing the run away when one request fails.
ApiError carries whether a second try can fix it, which is true of the
statuses a gateway raises itself and of a dropped connection, and false
of a rejected key. A chunk is asked for three times, waiting five then
ten seconds, with the Stop button still able to get through. If it does
fail in the end, what was already heard goes to the output box rather
than the bin, with the status line saying where it stops.
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.
Whisper hears in thirty second windows and decides for itself where one cue
ends and the next begins. A chunk that starts in the middle of a sentence can
answer with one cue per window, twenty seconds of text at a time, for the whole
rest of the chunk: a twenty five minute recording was fine until 20:00, which
was where the second cut fell, and ran on in paragraphs from there. Sending the
same audio in one request instead of three gives cues of two and a half seconds
throughout.
The cuts were only ever there for the upload limit, and we were the ones
walking into it: ffmpeg opened a 24 MB m4a into 48 MB of uncompressed WAV, over
the 25 MB the APIs take, so the file had to be cut every ten minutes. As mp3 it
is 9 MB, and an hour of speech goes in one request. A server on this machine is
still handed the WAV, where nothing is uploaded and the encoder would only cost
quality. How long a chunk may be is now measured from the encoded file rather
than assumed from a bitrate.
Where a file still has to be cut, the chunks overlap by a whisper window and
stitch() drops the telling that was cut short, keeping the one that heard the
sentence whole. Meetings, which upload the WAV itself and so still cut every
ten minutes, get the same stitching.
The two switches were written to disk by the Save button at the far end of
the window, so a file transcribed with timestamps and cleanup was
transcribed without either the next time. They belong to the run rather than
to the form: they go to disk as they are ticked now, and the folder the last
file came from goes with them.
Stop only set a flag that was looked at between chunks, and a file under ten
minutes is one chunk, so for most files it was looked at after the work it
was meant to stop had already finished. Nothing that blocks is reached by a
flag. The request is inside urlopen, ffmpeg is inside communicate, and a
whisper on this machine is a process of ours that would grind on to the end
of the chunk with nobody left to hand the answer to. So the socket is shut
down under the read, ffmpeg is killed, and a local server is stopped and
left for the next run to start again.
Shutting the socket down rather than closing it is the point: close() alone
leaves a thread already inside recv() waiting for bytes that are never
coming now. The connection is registered before it has a socket, so a stop
landing in the few lines between making a connection and blocking on it
refuses the connection rather than missing it and letting urllib quietly
open another.
570 tests over the standard library's unittest, so there is nothing to
install beyond the PyQt6 the application already needs. They reach neither
the network, the microphone, nor the real ~/.config/dikte: urllib is faked at
one function, the tools are faked at shutil.which, and every test is handed
its own config and data directory.
What they hold onto is what a change is most likely to move without meaning
to. The request each provider is sent, field by field. A settings window that
loads a value into a widget and writes it back, which is where a setting
added to one half and not the other is silently reset. The dictation chain
end to end: what is transcribed, what is pasted, what lands in the history,
and what happens to the audio afterwards. A config file written by an older
version. A meeting whose two channels heard the same sentence.
59 of them carry @linux_only, because they cover what Dikte is on this
desktop rather than what it does: PipeWire, wl-clipboard, ydotool, KDE's
shortcut file. The other 511 pass on any platform, and that line is worth
holding as the ports arrive.
CONTRIBUTING.md says how to run them, what support.py offers, and the three
things about this codebase that trip up a new test.
yusufipek
