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yusufipk 352f7b6c22 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.
2026-07-28 16:32:31 +07:00

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"""Raw PCM capture with a live level meter.
Dictation records one source through pw-record. A meeting records two of them at
once, the microphone and what comes out of the speakers, and for that it goes
through ffmpeg instead: one process reading both devices and merging them into
the two channels of a single stream, which is the only way the two stay aligned
with each other over an hour.
"""
import array
import json
import math
import os
import shutil
import signal
import subprocess
import tempfile
import threading
import wave
from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal
from i18n import t
RATE = 16000
CHANNELS = 1
SAMPLE_WIDTH = 2 # s16
CHUNK_FRAMES = 1024
CHUNK_BYTES = CHUNK_FRAMES * SAMPLE_WIDTH * CHANNELS
MIN_FRAMES = int(RATE * 0.25)
class Recorder(QObject):
"""Runs pw-record as a child process and reads raw PCM from its stdout."""
level = pyqtSignal(float) # 0.0 - 1.0, for the waveform
stopped = pyqtSignal(str, float, object) # wav path, duration (s), per-chunk RMS
failed = pyqtSignal(str)
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self._proc = None
self._thread = None
self._buffer = bytearray()
self._rms = []
self._cancelled = False
self._lock = threading.Lock()
@property
def active(self):
return self._thread is not None and self._thread.is_alive()
def start(self, target="", max_seconds=300):
if self.active:
return
if not shutil.which("pw-record"):
self.failed.emit(t("pw-record not found. Is pipewire-audio installed?"))
return
cmd = [
"pw-record",
"--raw",
f"--rate={RATE}",
f"--channels={CHANNELS}",
"--format=s16",
]
if target:
cmd.append(f"--target={target}")
cmd.append("-")
try:
self._proc = subprocess.Popen(
cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, bufsize=0
)
except OSError as exc:
self.failed.emit(t("Could not start recording: {error}", error=exc))
return
self._buffer = bytearray()
self._rms = []
self._cancelled = False
self._max_bytes = int(max_seconds * RATE * SAMPLE_WIDTH * CHANNELS)
self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._pump, daemon=True)
self._thread.start()
def _pump(self):
stdout = self._proc.stdout
try:
while True:
chunk = stdout.read(CHUNK_BYTES)
if not chunk:
break
peak, rms = chunk_levels(chunk)
with self._lock:
self._buffer.extend(chunk)
self._rms.append(rms)
too_long = len(self._buffer) >= self._max_bytes
self.level.emit(peak)
if too_long:
self._terminate()
break
except (OSError, ValueError):
pass
def _terminate(self):
proc = self._proc
if proc and proc.poll() is None:
try:
proc.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
proc.wait(timeout=1.5)
except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError):
try:
proc.kill()
except OSError:
pass
def cancel(self):
self._cancelled = True
self._terminate()
if self._thread:
self._thread.join(timeout=2)
self._thread = None
self._proc = None
with self._lock:
self._buffer = bytearray()
def stop(self):
"""End the recording and write the WAV file."""
if not self._proc:
return
self._terminate()
if self._thread:
self._thread.join(timeout=2)
self._thread = None
self._proc = None
with self._lock:
pcm = bytes(self._buffer)
rms = list(self._rms)
self._buffer = bytearray()
if self._cancelled:
return
frames = len(pcm) // (SAMPLE_WIDTH * CHANNELS)
if frames < MIN_FRAMES: # a stray keypress, not speech
self.failed.emit(t("Recording too short, speak for at least 0.3 s"))
return
path = write_wav(pcm)
self.stopped.emit(path, frames / RATE, rms)
def write_wav(pcm, rate=RATE, channels=CHANNELS, width=SAMPLE_WIDTH):
fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="dikte-", suffix=".wav")
with open(fd, "wb") as raw, wave.open(raw, "wb") as wav:
wav.setnchannels(channels)
wav.setsampwidth(width)
wav.setframerate(rate)
wav.writeframes(pcm)
return path
class MeetingRecorder(QObject):
"""Microphone and speaker output into one stereo file: left is you, right is
everyone else.
Who said what then needs no guessing at all, because the two voices never
shared a channel to begin with. The recording is written to disk as it
arrives rather than held in memory, so length is not a problem and a crash
costs the tail of the meeting instead of all of it.
"""
levels = pyqtSignal(float, float) # mine, theirs
stopped = pyqtSignal(str, float) # wav path, duration (s)
died = pyqtSignal() # ffmpeg quit on its own
failed = pyqtSignal(str)
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self._proc = None
self._thread = None
self._wav = None
self._log = None
self._path = ""
self._frames = 0
self._cancelled = False
self._stopping = False
self._lock = threading.Lock()
@property
def active(self):
return self._thread is not None and self._thread.is_alive()
def start(self, path, mic_target="", system_target="", max_seconds=14400):
if self.active:
return
if not shutil.which("ffmpeg"):
self.failed.emit(t("ffmpeg not found. Install it to record a meeting."))
return
if not system_target:
system_target = default_monitor()
if not system_target:
self.failed.emit(t("Could not work out which speaker output to record. "
"Pick one in Settings → Meeting."))
return
merge = (
"[0:a]aresample={rate}:async=1,aformat=sample_fmts=s16:channel_layouts=mono[m];"
"[1:a]aresample={rate}:async=1,aformat=sample_fmts=s16:channel_layouts=mono[s];"
"[m][s]amerge=inputs=2[out]"
).format(rate=RATE)
cmd = [
"ffmpeg", "-hide_banner", "-nostdin", "-loglevel", "error",
"-f", "pulse", "-thread_queue_size", "4096", "-i", mic_target or "default",
"-f", "pulse", "-thread_queue_size", "4096", "-i", system_target,
"-filter_complex", merge, "-map", "[out]",
"-f", "s16le", "-ar", str(RATE), "-",
]
try:
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path), exist_ok=True)
self._wav = wave.open(path, "wb")
self._wav.setnchannels(2)
self._wav.setsampwidth(SAMPLE_WIDTH)
self._wav.setframerate(RATE)
# ffmpeg keeps talking to stderr for as long as it runs; a pipe
# nobody drains would eventually block it, so it writes to a file.
self._log = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
self._proc = subprocess.Popen(
cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=self._log, bufsize=0
)
except (OSError, wave.Error) as exc:
self._close_file()
self._drop_log()
try:
os.unlink(path) # an empty header nobody will ever read
except OSError:
pass
self.failed.emit(t("Could not start recording: {error}", error=exc))
return
self._path = path
self._frames = 0
self._cancelled = False
self._stopping = False
self._max_frames = int(max_seconds * RATE)
self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._pump, daemon=True)
self._thread.start()
def _pump(self):
stdout = self._proc.stdout
block = CHUNK_FRAMES * SAMPLE_WIDTH * 2
try:
while True:
chunk = stdout.read(block)
if not chunk:
break
mine, theirs = stereo_levels(chunk)
with self._lock:
if self._wav is None:
break
self._wav.writeframes(chunk)
self._frames += len(chunk) // (SAMPLE_WIDTH * 2)
too_long = self._frames >= self._max_frames
self.levels.emit(mine, theirs)
if too_long:
self._terminate()
break
except (OSError, ValueError, wave.Error):
pass
# Nobody asked it to end: the sound device went away, or ffmpeg fell
# over. An hour into a meeting that has to be said out loud rather than
# discovered afterwards.
if not self._stopping:
self.died.emit()
def _terminate(self):
self._stopping = True
proc = self._proc
if proc and proc.poll() is None:
try:
proc.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
proc.wait(timeout=2)
except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError):
try:
proc.kill()
except OSError:
pass
def _close_file(self):
with self._lock:
wav, self._wav = self._wav, None
if wav is not None:
try:
wav.close()
except (OSError, wave.Error):
pass
def _error_tail(self):
if self._log is None:
return ""
try:
self._log.seek(0)
text = self._log.read().decode("utf-8", "replace").strip()
except OSError:
return ""
lines = [line for line in text.splitlines() if line.strip()]
return lines[-1] if lines else ""
def _finish_process(self):
self._terminate()
if self._thread:
self._thread.join(timeout=3)
self._thread = None
code = self._proc.poll() if self._proc else 0
self._proc = None
self._close_file()
return code
def cancel(self):
self._cancelled = True
self._finish_process()
self._drop_log()
try:
os.unlink(self._path)
except OSError:
pass
def stop(self):
if not self._proc:
return
# The count is read after the join: the pump thread is still appending
# the last blocks up to the moment it ends.
code = self._finish_process()
frames = self._frames
if self._cancelled:
self._drop_log()
return
# SIGINT is how the recording ends, and ffmpeg reports being interrupted
# as a failure; only complain when nothing was captured either.
if frames < MIN_FRAMES:
tail = self._error_tail()
self._drop_log()
try:
os.unlink(self._path)
except OSError:
pass
self.failed.emit(
t("Nothing was recorded: {error}", error=tail or f"ffmpeg → {code}")
if tail or code else t("Recording too short, speak for at least 0.3 s")
)
return
self._drop_log()
self.stopped.emit(self._path, frames / RATE)
def _drop_log(self):
if self._log is not None:
try:
self._log.close()
except OSError:
pass
self._log = None
def chunk_levels(chunk):
"""(peak, rms) in 0..1. Peak drives the waveform, RMS drives the silence check."""
samples = array.array("h")
usable = len(chunk) - (len(chunk) % 2)
if usable <= 0:
return 0.0, 0.0
samples.frombytes(chunk[:usable])
peak = max(abs(min(samples)), abs(max(samples))) / 32768.0
rms = math.sqrt(sum(s * s for s in samples) / len(samples)) / 32768.0
return min(1.0, peak), min(1.0, rms)
def stereo_levels(chunk):
"""(left peak, right peak) in 0..1 from interleaved stereo s16."""
samples = array.array("h")
usable = len(chunk) - (len(chunk) % 4)
if usable <= 0:
return 0.0, 0.0
samples.frombytes(chunk[:usable])
left, right = samples[0::2], samples[1::2]
return _peak(left), _peak(right)
def _peak(samples):
if not samples:
return 0.0
return min(1.0, max(abs(min(samples)), abs(max(samples))) / 32768.0)
def _sources():
if not shutil.which("pactl"):
return []
try:
out = subprocess.run(
["pactl", "-f", "json", "list", "sources"],
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=5, check=True,
).stdout
return json.loads(out)
except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
return []
def list_sources():
"""[(name, description)] for every real input source."""
return [
(src.get("name", ""), src.get("description") or src.get("name", ""))
for src in _sources()
if not src.get("name", "").endswith(".monitor")
]
def list_monitors():
"""[(name, description)] for the monitor of every output.
Recording a monitor is recording whatever is being played, which in a
meeting is the other participants and nothing of your own microphone.
"""
return [
(src.get("name", ""), src.get("description") or src.get("name", ""))
for src in _sources()
if src.get("name", "").endswith(".monitor")
]
def default_monitor():
"""The monitor of the output sound is currently going to, or ''."""
if not shutil.which("pactl"):
return ""
try:
sink = subprocess.run(
["pactl", "get-default-sink"],
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=5, check=True,
).stdout.strip()
except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError):
return ""
if not sink:
return ""
monitor = f"{sink}.monitor"
names = {name for name, _ in list_monitors()}
return monitor if not names or monitor in names else ""