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bolt_pet/speech_text.py

@@ -118,6 +118,22 @@ def for_speech(text: str) -> str:
     return text.strip()
 
 
+def is_question(text: str) -> bool:
+    """True if the reply *ends* by asking the user something — the cue for
+    the pet to keep listening instead of making you say the wake word again.
+
+    Deliberately only looks at the end. A reply that asks something in
+    passing ("What time is it? It's 7:15.") isn't waiting on an answer,
+    whereas one that finishes on a question mark is. The test runs on the
+    spoken form, so a '?' that only exists inside a stripped code block or a
+    URL doesn't count, and trailing decoration (emoji, quotes, brackets) is
+    peeled off first so "Ready to go? 🚀" still reads as a question."""
+    spoken = for_speech(text)
+    while spoken and not (spoken[-1].isalnum() or spoken[-1] == "?"):
+        spoken = spoken[:-1]
+    return spoken.endswith("?")
+
+
 def for_display(text: str) -> str:
     """What the speech bubble shows: markdown syntax removed (the bubble
     can't render it) but emoji and layout-ish punctuation left alone."""