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yusufipk 034c2bec7e Clean the transcript up on the subscription you already have
Cleanup was the one step with only one place to run. Speech to text has three
providers behind a setting and the agent has three behind another, but the
model that drops the "eee"s out of a sentence was always a request to
OpenRouter, which meant a second key on a machine that already pays for a model
and already hands whole dictations to it as commands. Claude Code and Codex can
rewrite a sentence as easily as they can put something in your calendar, and
now they may.

cleanup.py is where that choice lives, so worker, the file transcriber and the
meeting all ask the same question rather than each building the same OpenRouter
request. What comes out of a CLI that failed is a CleanupError, which is an
ApiError, because to the chain a cleanup that failed is a cleanup that failed
however it was run: the raw transcript is still pasted and the reason still
shows in the corner, unchanged.

Neither CLI is given anything it does not need for the job. No tools, no MCP
servers, no session to resume, and the home directory rather than wherever the
agent is pointed, since a project's instructions have opinions about how text
should be written and none of them are about this transcript. The transcript
goes in fenced the same way the OpenRouter call fences it, because it is
material rather than an instruction however much of it reads like one. Claude
takes the cleanup rules as its whole system prompt; Codex has no system prompt
of its own, so they ride in front of the text, and its answer is read from the
file it writes on the way out rather than from a stdout that also carries a
header, its thinking and a token count.

The cost is seconds. OpenRouter answers in about one, a CLI in six or seven,
because each one opens a whole session to do it. That is the trade the box
says out loud, and the default has not moved: OpenRouter cleans up until you
say otherwise.

Codex's two lowest thinking levels now ask for "low". "minimal" was its bottom
rung until the newer models replaced it with "none", and each of them answers
the other's word with a 400, which the agent has been quietly hitting too.

In the settings window the model box belongs to whoever is chosen rather than
meaning three different things in turn, since an OpenRouter id and a Claude
alias do not belong in the same field, and under it is the same "found it or
not" line the agent tab has. dikte doctor asks about the program instead of the
key when a CLI does the cleaning, and the history records which model actually
did it.
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"""From a two-channel meeting recording to a set of minutes.
The recording arrives with your microphone on the left channel and everything
the other participants said on the right, so attribution is settled before any
model sees the audio: each channel is transcribed on its own, and the two are
then interleaved on one timeline. What a model is asked for is only what models
are good at, turning the words into readable prose and then into minutes.
Every stage the run reaches is written to disk, so a failure in the last one
does not cost the transcription of an hour of audio.
"""
import array
import contextlib
import difflib
import os
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import tempfile
import threading
import time
import wave
from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal
import api
import cleanup
import config as cfg
import filetranscribe
import vad
from filetranscribe import Cancelled, format_timestamp
from i18n import t
# Where the document stops being prose and starts being the transcript. It is a
# comment, so it never shows up in a rendered document, and it is what a retry
# reads the transcript back out of.
TRANSCRIPT_MARKER = "<!-- dikte:transcript -->"
# A microphone that hears the other side through the speakers puts the same
# sentence on both channels. Ours is the copy to drop, and it is a copy when it
# lands on top of theirs in time and says nearly the same thing.
ECHO_OVERLAP = 0.5
ECHO_SIMILARITY = 0.72
# A pause this long inside one person's turn starts a new line instead.
TURN_GAP = 8.0
# How much of a channel is read at a time when levels are measured, matched to
# the block the dictation level meter uses so the silence thresholds mean the
# same thing here.
LEVEL_FRAMES = 1024
class MeetingPipeline(QObject):
"""Transcribe, clean up and summarise a recorded meeting."""
progress = pyqtSignal(str, str) # base, message
finished = pyqtSignal(str, str) # base, title
failed = pyqtSignal(str, str) # base, error
def __init__(self, conf, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self.conf = conf
self._thread = None
self._stop = threading.Event()
self._base = ""
@property
def busy(self):
return self._thread is not None and self._thread.is_alive()
@property
def running_base(self):
return self._base if self.busy else ""
def run(self, entry):
"""Take a meeting row onwards from wherever it stopped."""
if self.busy:
return False
self._stop.clear()
self._base = entry.get("base", "")
self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._work, args=(dict(entry),),
daemon=True)
self._thread.start()
return True
def stop(self):
self._stop.set()
def _check(self):
if self._stop.is_set():
raise Cancelled
def _say(self, message):
self.progress.emit(self._base, message)
# ---- the chain -------------------------------------------------------
def _work(self, entry):
base = entry["base"]
doc_path, wav_path = cfg.meeting_paths(base)
workdir = None
try:
transcript = self._stored_transcript(entry, doc_path)
if not transcript:
if not wav_path.exists():
raise api.ApiError(t("The recording is gone: {path}", path=wav_path))
workdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="dikte-meeting-")
transcript = self._transcribe(str(wav_path), workdir)
if self.conf["meeting_cleanup"]:
self._check()
self._say(t("Cleaning up…"))
transcript = self._cleanup(transcript)
# On disk before the summary is attempted: if the summary fails,
# a retry starts from here instead of from the audio.
self._write(doc_path, "", transcript, entry)
cfg.update_meeting(base, status="transcribed", error="")
self._check()
self._say(t("Writing the minutes…"))
minutes = api.cleanup(
transcript,
self.conf.openrouter_key(),
self.conf["meeting_model"],
self.conf.meeting_prompt(),
reasoning=self.conf["meeting_reasoning"],
base_url=self.conf["openrouter_base_url"],
timeout=600,
)
title = self._write(doc_path, minutes, transcript, entry)
cfg.update_meeting(base, status="done", error="", title=title,
model=self.conf["meeting_model"])
self._discard_audio(wav_path)
self.finished.emit(base, title)
except Cancelled:
cfg.update_meeting(base, error=t("Stopped."))
self._say(t("Stopped."))
except (api.ApiError, OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError, wave.Error) as exc:
# The audio stays put no matter what the keep setting says: it is the
# only copy of the meeting, and the run can be tried again from it.
cfg.update_meeting(base, status="failed", error=str(exc))
self.failed.emit(base, str(exc))
finally:
if workdir:
shutil.rmtree(workdir, ignore_errors=True)
def _stored_transcript(self, entry, doc_path):
"""The transcript an earlier run already paid for, or ''."""
if entry.get("status") not in ("transcribed", "done"):
return ""
try:
return read_transcript(doc_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except OSError:
return ""
def _transcribe(self, wav_path, workdir):
conf = self.conf
mine, theirs = split_channels(wav_path, workdir)
target = conf.transcribe_target()
language = conf["meeting_language"] or conf["language"]
hint = conf.meeting_hint()
segments = []
for path, speaker in ((mine, "mine"), (theirs, "theirs")):
side = t("you") if speaker == "mine" else t("the others")
# A directory each: the chunk files are named by their index, and
# the second channel would otherwise write over the first one's.
chunk_dir = os.path.join(workdir, speaker)
os.makedirs(chunk_dir, exist_ok=True)
chunks = filetranscribe.split_wav(path, chunk_dir)
for index, (chunk_path, offset) in enumerate(chunks, start=1):
self._check()
self._say(t("Transcribing {side}: {index}/{count}…",
side=side, index=index, count=len(chunks)))
# Nobody spoke on this side for these ten minutes: an API call
# would cost money to be told so, and can invent a sentence.
if self._silent(chunk_path):
continue
segments.extend(
(start + offset, end + offset, text, speaker)
for start, end, text in api.transcribe_segments(
target, chunk_path, language=language, prompt=hint
)
)
if not segments:
raise api.ApiError(t("Neither side of the recording had any speech in it."))
names = conf.speaker_names()
return render_turns(merge_turns(segments), *names)
def _silent(self, path):
if not self.conf["skip_silent"]:
return False
conf = self.conf
stats = vad.analyse(rms_series(path), LEVEL_FRAMES / wav_rate(path),
conf["speech_margin_db"])
return vad.is_silent(stats, conf["silence_db"], conf["speech_margin_db"],
conf["min_voiced_seconds"])
def _cleanup(self, transcript):
conf = self.conf
prompt = conf.cleanup_prompt(with_timestamps=True, with_speakers=True)
out = []
blocks = filetranscribe.split_text(transcript, True)
for index, block in enumerate(blocks, start=1):
self._check()
if len(blocks) > 1:
self._say(t("Cleaning up {index}/{count}…",
index=index, count=len(blocks)))
out.append(cleanup.run(block, conf, prompt, timeout=600))
return "\n".join(out)
def _write(self, doc_path, minutes, transcript, entry):
"""Write the document, and hand back the title it ended up with."""
title, body = split_title(minutes)
title = title or entry.get("title") or t("Meeting")
text = build_document(
title, entry.get("ts", ""), entry.get("duration", 0.0), body, transcript
)
doc_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
tmp = doc_path.with_suffix(".md.tmp")
tmp.write_text(text, encoding="utf-8")
tmp.replace(doc_path)
return title
def _discard_audio(self, wav_path):
if self.conf["meeting_keep_audio"]:
return
try:
wav_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
except OSError:
pass
# --- audio ----------------------------------------------------------------
def split_channels(path, workdir):
"""Pull the stereo recording apart into (mine, theirs) mono files."""
with contextlib.closing(wave.open(path, "rb")) as src:
if src.getnchannels() != 2 or src.getsampwidth() != 2:
raise api.ApiError(t("This recording is not a two-channel meeting."))
rate = src.getframerate()
mine = os.path.join(workdir, "mine.wav")
theirs = os.path.join(workdir, "theirs.wav")
with contextlib.closing(wave.open(mine, "wb")) as left, \
contextlib.closing(wave.open(theirs, "wb")) as right:
for out in (left, right):
out.setnchannels(1)
out.setsampwidth(2)
out.setframerate(rate)
while True:
frames = src.readframes(rate) # a second at a time
if not frames:
break
samples = array.array("h")
samples.frombytes(frames)
left.writeframes(samples[0::2].tobytes())
right.writeframes(samples[1::2].tobytes())
return mine, theirs
def rms_series(path):
"""Per-block RMS in 0..1, the input vad.analyse expects."""
out = []
with contextlib.closing(wave.open(path, "rb")) as wav:
while True:
frames = wav.readframes(LEVEL_FRAMES)
if not frames:
break
samples = array.array("h")
samples.frombytes(frames[:len(frames) - (len(frames) % 2)])
if not samples:
continue
total = sum(s * s for s in samples) / len(samples)
out.append(min(1.0, (total ** 0.5) / 32768.0))
return out
def wav_rate(path):
with contextlib.closing(wave.open(path, "rb")) as wav:
return wav.getframerate()
# --- the timeline ----------------------------------------------------------
def merge_turns(segments, gap=TURN_GAP):
"""[(start, speaker, text)] on one timeline, echo dropped, turns joined."""
ordered = sorted(segments, key=lambda seg: (seg[0], seg[1]))
theirs = [seg for seg in ordered if seg[3] == "theirs"]
kept = [seg for seg in ordered if seg[3] == "mine" and not _is_echo(seg, theirs)]
kept.extend(theirs)
kept.sort(key=lambda seg: seg[0])
turns = []
for start, end, text, speaker in kept:
if turns and turns[-1][1] == speaker and start - turns[-1][3] <= gap:
turns[-1][2] += " " + text
turns[-1][3] = max(turns[-1][3], end)
continue
turns.append([start, speaker, text, end])
return [(start, speaker, text) for start, speaker, text, _ in turns]
def _is_echo(segment, theirs):
"""Did the microphone just pick up the other side through the speakers?"""
start, end, text, _ = segment
span = max(end - start, 0.01)
mine = _normalise(text)
if not mine:
return True
for their_start, their_end, their_text, _ in theirs:
if their_start > end:
break
overlap = min(end, their_end) - max(start, their_start)
if overlap / span < ECHO_OVERLAP:
continue
ratio = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, mine, _normalise(their_text)).ratio()
if ratio >= ECHO_SIMILARITY:
return True
return False
def _normalise(text):
return re.sub(r"[^\w\s]", "", text.strip().lower())
def render_turns(turns, mine_label, theirs_label):
labels = {"mine": mine_label, "theirs": theirs_label}
return "\n".join(
f"[{format_timestamp(start)}] {labels[speaker]}: {text.strip()}"
for start, speaker, text in turns
)
# --- the document ----------------------------------------------------------
def split_title(minutes):
"""('Title', 'rest of it') from a document whose first line is a heading."""
text = (minutes or "").strip()
if not text:
return "", ""
head, _, rest = text.partition("\n")
if head.startswith("#"):
return head.lstrip("#").strip(), rest.strip()
return "", text
def build_document(title, when, duration, minutes, transcript):
minutes = (minutes or "").strip()
parts = [f"# {title}", "", f"*{when} · {length_label(duration)}*", ""]
if minutes:
parts += [minutes, "", "---", ""]
parts += [TRANSCRIPT_MARKER, f"## {t('Transcript')}", "", transcript.strip(), ""]
return "\n".join(parts)
def read_transcript(document):
"""The transcript back out of a document written by build_document."""
_, marker, rest = document.partition(TRANSCRIPT_MARKER)
if not marker:
return ""
lines = rest.strip().splitlines()
if lines and lines[0].startswith("#"):
lines = lines[1:]
return "\n".join(lines).strip()
def length_label(seconds):
minutes = int(seconds) // 60
if minutes < 60:
return t("{minutes} min", minutes=minutes)
return t("{hours} h {minutes} min", hours=minutes // 60, minutes=minutes % 60)
def new_base():
"""The stem the recording, the document and the index row all share."""
return time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
def new_entry(base, duration):
"""The index row for a meeting that has just been recorded."""
return {
"base": base,
"ts": f"{base[:4]}-{base[4:6]}-{base[6:8]} {base[9:11]}:{base[11:13]}",
"title": "",
"duration": round(duration, 1),
"status": "recorded",
"error": "",
"model": "",
}