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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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"""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
import api
import assistant
import audio
import cleanup
import config as cfg
import i18n
import paste
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"] else None
paste.copy(text)
if wants_paste:
self.stage.emit(t("Pasting…"))
paste.press(conf["paste_shortcut"])
if previous is not None:
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