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Summary

Fixes #2399.

Keep streaming preview audio complete, preserve crossfades when chunks overlap, and avoid fading a late chunk into silence after an underrun.

Changes

  • Request an AudioContext at the PCM sample rate, with the default-rate fallback.
  • Start the first chunk ahead of the audio clock and let scheduled buffers drain before natural completion.
  • Record each scheduled source's end and apply the crossfade only when the preceding source overlaps the new chunk's actual start.
  • Cover both overlapping underrun recovery and a late chunk arriving after the preceding source has ended.
  • Update the existing changelog entry to include the underrun behavior.

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • ♻️ Refactor
  • 📝 Documentation
  • 🧪 Tests
  • 🔧 CI / Build
  • 🚀 Release prep

Testing

  • Focused streaming TTS test: 33 passed.
  • bun run check:electron: passed, including typecheck, locale checks, 964 Electron tests (1 skipped), 2,922 shared tests, Electron and web builds, and the packaging contract.
  • Formatter check for both changed files and git diff --check: passed.
  • The one post-push snapshot for 5034892215fba04208e6ebcb34f95975162983ac showed 4 checks passed and 7 pending, with no failed checks observed.
  • The runtime fixture smoke-matrix result remains pending.

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  • I've tested this locally
  • I've updated relevant documentation in the existing changelog entry
  • No local machine paths, logs, or personal environment details in the PR description
  • Maintained version files are unchanged; no version bump was requested
  • The runtime fixture smoke-matrix result is pending for the follow-up commit

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VoiceStudio ships continuous-to-main — no release candidates, no soak windows.
Every merged PR is immediately part of rolling source (main) and Docker
:latest. Electron artifact rehearsals validate desktop packages without publishing.
Version bumps require owner approval; validated releases are tagged from main
and published explicitly under the release checklist.
Users who want stability install an Electron release or pin Docker :stable.

The player now requests an AudioContext at the PCM sample rate with a fallback, schedules the first chunk with an 80 ms lead, and preserves crossfades only when audio overlaps. These changes address cut-off audio and resampling artifacts in streaming previews. The runtime fixture smoke-matrix result is still pending.

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The streaming player requests the PCM rate when supported, adjusts chunk scheduling, and waits for scheduled audio to drain before natural completion. Tests cover rate fallback, playback timing, and crossfades for late chunks.

Changes

Streaming preview playback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Audio context and chunk scheduling
electron/src/shared/utils/streamingTts.js, electron/src/shared/test/streamingTts.test.js
The player retries audio-context creation without sample-rate options if the requested PCM rate is rejected. It anchors the first chunk after an 80 ms lead and re-anchors late chunks. Crossfades apply when the previous source is still playing. Tests cover rate fallback, scheduling timing, and crossfade ramps.
Playback completion handling
electron/src/shared/utils/streamingTts.js, electron/src/shared/test/streamingTts.test.js, CHANGELOG.md
Completion waits until the anchored playback timeline reaches the buffered end plus padding. Natural completion disconnects scheduled nodes without stopping them. Tests cover delayed completion, and the changelog records the preview update.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c7b2c

The preview timing changes are mergeable after normal checks; no concrete playback regression remains identified.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50348

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: electron, CHANGELOG.md

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Systems and components

  • observed — electron (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — CHANGELOG.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in CHANGELOG.md: Adds a changelog entry describing streaming-preview audio-edge and late-chunk crossfade handling, plus PCM-rate use when supported.
  • observed — Modified behavior in electron/src/shared/test/streamingTts.test.js: FakeAudioContext now records constructor options, can throw when configured to reject a requested sample rate, and exposes that rate or defaults to 48 kHz; its constructor now accepts options.
  • observed — Modified behavior in electron/src/shared/test/streamingTts.test.js: Test setup now resets the recorded audio-context options and sample-rate rejection flag.
  • observed — Modified behavior in electron/src/shared/test/streamingTts.test.js: The raw-frame scheduling assertions now expect both chunks to retain an 80 ms lead, with the second still scheduled one chunk duration after the first.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the repository template. It includes the issue reference, summary, changes, bug-fix and test classifications, test results, checklist status, and release cadence. It clearly id…
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses Conventional Commit format with the required scope, fix(audio):, and describes the main streaming preview fix. The issue reference appears in the pull request body as Fixes #2399.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #2399 requires complete streaming playback without resampling artifacts or added tones. createStreamingChunkPlayer requests the PCM sample rate with a fallback, schedules the first chunk with …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to the streaming player, its focused tests, and the related changelog entry. Each change supports issue #2399, so no unrelated change is demonstrated.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
Cross-Platform Default Parity ✅ Passed The PR changes the default preview path, but the shared implementation uses the same Web Audio API on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It has no platform-specific branches, and the sample-rate request has a…
I18n Completeness (21 Locales) ✅ Passed No frontend or renderer UI files changed in the PR. The only code changes are in the shared streaming audio utility and its tests; structural inspection found no new or changed t(...) calls and no n…
Local-First Guarantee ✅ Passed PASS — The PR changes only local Web Audio scheduling, test doubles, and the changelog. The added lines contain no network, account, API-key, telemetry, or reporting calls; the existing /generate an…
Backward Compatibility ✅ Passed The pull request changes only CHANGELOG.md, electron/src/shared/utils/streamingTts.js, and its tests. It does not change database schema, migrations, omnivoice_data handling, voice/project/setti…
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[Medium risk] Fixes audio streaming timing and sample rate handling.

The PR appears safe to merge based on the changes since the previous review.

Summary

The PR adjusts streaming-preview scheduling and completion, and the latest change limits a late chunk’s crossfade to the preceding source’s remaining playback time.

  • Updates the regression test to expect the shortened crossfade.
  • Updates the changelog entry.

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🟡 Minor · Gate the underrun fade on actual tail overlap. · streamingTts.js:325-333

electron/src/shared/utils/streamingTts.js:325-333
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Gate the underrun fade on actual tail overlap.

When a chunk arrives after the last scheduled source ends, scheduleChunk(i, 0, true) starts its gain at 0 and ramps it to 1 over up to 50 ms, so its opening samples are attenuated without an outgoing source to crossfade. Store each source’s end time and apply the fade only when the tail overlaps the new start; this preserves fades for genuine overlap.

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     const when = anchor + (starts[i] + intra - baseOffset);
-    const fade = withFade && intra === 0 ? fadeFor(i) : 0;
+    const startAt = Math.max(when, ctx.currentTime);
     const tail = scheduled[scheduled.length - 1];
+    const fade =
+      withFade && intra === 0 && tail?.endsAt > startAt ? fadeFor(i) : 0;
     if (fade > 0 && tail) {
       // Linear crossfade — same shape the backend bakes into the final file.
       tail.gain.gain.setValueAtTime(1, when);
       tail.gain.gain.linearRampToValueAtTime(0, when + fade);
       gain.gain.setValueAtTime(0, when);
       gain.gain.linearRampToValueAtTime(1, when + fade);
     }
-    src.start(Math.max(when, ctx.currentTime), intra);
-    scheduled.push({ src, gain, index: i });
+    src.start(startAt, intra);
+    scheduled.push({ src, gain, index: i, endsAt: startAt + dur(i) - intra });
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Update the chunk scheduling logic in `scheduleChunk` to apply the fade only when
the most recently scheduled source’s end time overlaps the new chunk’s actual
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- Around line 325-333: Update the chunk scheduling logic in `scheduleChunk` to
apply the fade only when the most recently scheduled source’s end time overlaps
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debpalash added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
Consolidate community engine, workflow, dictation, and setup fixes with the Electron composer, sidebar, and voice UI.

Fix review findings in engine residency, remote exports, backup cleanup, bounded compressed-audio decoding, and reference preprocessing. Preserve contributor credits in CHANGELOG.md and leave the app version unchanged.

Supersedes #2325, #2338, #2368, #2377, #2379, #2380, #2383, #2384, #2387, #2390, #2391, #2392, #2393, #2395, #2400, #2401, #2402, #2409, #2410, and #2412.
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Implemented and merged through #2419. Contributor credit is preserved in CHANGELOG.md.

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