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Bolt-Pet/bolt_pet/dialogue.py
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themajesticmagician 3a0959f55d Streaming replies and STT, amplitude lip-sync, one place for speaking
Latency: replies are spoken sentence-by-sentence off the desk API's NDJSON
endpoint, so the wait is time-to-first-sentence rather than the whole model
call, and Deepgram's live websocket transcribes while you're still talking
instead of uploading the WAV afterwards. Both fall back invisibly — a stream
that fails before anything was said drops to converse(), and a socket that
never opens just means the old one-shot path.

Speaking lived in four near-copies in the controller (a reply, a holding line,
a streamed sentence, a dialogue scene) that had already drifted: one didn't arm
barge-in, another skipped the follow-up rule. It's now speech.Speaker plus an
Utterance describing the policy differences, with collaborators injected so the
whole of it tests without Qt or audio.

The mouth follows the audio rather than a timer: tts.level_of reduces each PCM
frame to a 0..1 loudness on a sqrt curve (speech sits well below peak, and a
linear map leaves the mouth barely open during normal talking) and that indexes
the talking frames, which the sprite script now draws as an openness ramp.
Offline pyttsx3 has no waveform, so stale levels hand control back to the timed
loop instead of freezing the mouth mid-syllable.

Also: the pet starts where you left it (ignoring positions on monitors that are
no longer connected, since restoring those faithfully is how it ends up
somewhere unreachable), and `python -m bolt_pet --doctor` is a preflight that
says what to do about each problem rather than only what's wrong.

tests/test_pipeline_smoke.py breaks the pure-logic rule on purpose. Every unit
test passed all week while notifications sat unspoken for minutes, the pet said
things twice and [laughing] got read aloud — each an interaction between two
individually-correct units. It drives whole turns against a real HTTP server on
a loopback port, faking only the mic and the speakers. It found a NameError in
the paint path that would have fired on every repaint while talking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 19:01:06 -06:00

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"""`dialoguectl` — multi-voice dialogue playback (ElevenLabs Text to Dialogue).
Normal replies are one voice saying one thing (audio/tts.py). This is the
other mode: a short *scene* — two or more voices, with delivery tags the v3
model acts on (`[cheerfully]`, `[stuttering]`, `[whispering]`) — synthesized
as a single take so the timing and reactions between lines actually sound
like a conversation rather than clips glued together.
Wire format, the same discipline as file_ops.py and for the same reason: it
rides the server's ordinary `command` tool marker, whose extractor only
captures up to the next newline, so the payload is a **single-line compact
JSON object**.
dialoguectl {"lines": [{"voice": "self", "text": "[cheerfully] Morning!"},
{"voice": "narrator", "text": "[whispering] He lies."}]}
The ElevenLabs field names are accepted too (`inputs` / `voice_id`), because
the model has read that API and copying its shape is the obvious thing to
try:
dialoguectl {"inputs": [{"voice_id": "9BWtsMINqrJLrRacOk9x", "text": "hi"}]}
Voices are *named*, not pasted as ids. `DIALOGUE_VOICES` in .env maps names
to ids (`narrator:9BWts…,villain:IKne3…`), and `self` always means the voice
the pet is speaking with right now — including a voice the server picked
mid-conversation with `speak_as`, so a scene featuring Bolt sounds like
whoever Bolt currently is.
Pure parsing and validation here; the HTTP call is
`audio/tts.synthesize_dialogue` and the playback/state handling is
`controller._play_dialogue`, matching the parse/execute split used by
pet_actions.py and file_ops.py.
The API's own limits are enforced *here*, before the request goes out, so a
mistake comes back through the tool-result relay as a sentence Bolt can act
on ("too many characters, split it") rather than as an HTTP 422 he can't see.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import re
from typing import Iterable, Optional
from . import relay_json
_PREFIXES = ("dialoguectl", "dialogue", "scene")
# ElevenLabs Text to Dialogue limits (docs, 2026-07): at most 10 distinct
# voice ids per request and ~2000 characters across all inputs.
MAX_VOICES = 10
MAX_CHARS = 2000
# Names that always mean "the voice the pet is using right now".
SELF_NAMES = ("self", "bolt", "me", "pet")
# A raw ElevenLabs voice id: 20 URL-safe characters, no separators. Used to
# tell "the model pasted an id" from "the model used a name".
_VOICE_ID_RE = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z0-9]{20}$")
class DialogueError(Exception):
"""Bad dialoguectl syntax or an unusable request — reported back to the
server as this command's output."""
def is_dialogue_command(command: str) -> bool:
parts = (command or "").strip().split(None, 1)
return bool(parts) and parts[0].lower() in _PREFIXES
def parse(command: str) -> Optional[dict]:
"""Parse `dialoguectl <json>` into {"lines": [{"voice", "text"}], ...}.
Returns None if this isn't a dialogue command at all (the caller then
tries filectl, then a real shell command). Raises DialogueError on a
dialogue command that doesn't make sense."""
if not is_dialogue_command(command):
return None
_, _, payload = (command or "").strip().partition(" ")
payload = payload.strip()
if not payload:
raise DialogueError(
'dialoguectl needs a JSON argument, e.g. dialoguectl {"lines": '
'[{"voice": "self", "text": "[cheerfully] hello"}]}'
)
# Same lenient parse as filectl (see relay_json): machine-written JSON
# fails in a handful of repeatable ways, and a stray quote shouldn't cost
# a turn — but the repair is reported back rather than hidden.
try:
data, repairs = relay_json.loads(payload)
except relay_json.RelayJsonError as exc:
raise DialogueError(
f"couldn't parse the JSON — {exc}\nIt must be one line of compact "
"JSON — put line breaks inside text as \\n, never as real newlines."
) from exc
if not isinstance(data, dict):
raise DialogueError("the argument must be a JSON object, not a list or a bare value")
raw_lines = data.get("lines")
if raw_lines is None:
raw_lines = data.get("inputs") # the ElevenLabs field name
if not isinstance(raw_lines, list) or not raw_lines:
raise DialogueError('needs a non-empty "lines" array of {"voice", "text"} objects')
lines: list[dict] = []
for index, entry in enumerate(raw_lines, start=1):
if not isinstance(entry, dict):
raise DialogueError(f"line {index} must be an object with 'voice' and 'text'")
text = str(entry.get("text") or "").strip()
if not text:
raise DialogueError(f"line {index} has no text")
voice = str(entry.get("voice") or entry.get("voice_id") or "self").strip()
lines.append({"voice": voice, "text": text})
action = {"action": "dialogue", "lines": lines}
if repairs:
action["_repairs"] = repairs
model = str(data.get("model") or data.get("model_id") or "").strip()
if model:
action["model"] = model
stability = data.get("stability")
if stability is not None:
try:
action["stability"] = min(1.0, max(0.0, float(stability)))
except (TypeError, ValueError):
raise DialogueError("stability must be a number between 0 and 1") from None
return action
def parse_voice_map(spec: str) -> dict[str, str]:
"""Parse DIALOGUE_VOICES ("narrator:9BWts…, villain:IKne3…") into a map.
Malformed entries are skipped rather than raising: a typo in .env should
cost that one voice, not the whole feature."""
voices: dict[str, str] = {}
for chunk in str(spec or "").split(","):
name, separator, voice_id = chunk.partition(":")
name, voice_id = name.strip().lower(), voice_id.strip()
if separator and name and voice_id:
voices[name] = voice_id
return voices
def resolve(
action: dict,
*,
voices: Optional[dict] = None,
self_voice: str = "",
) -> list[dict]:
"""Turn parsed lines into the API's `inputs`, resolving names to ids.
*self_voice* is the pet's current voice (which may be a `speak_as` pick,
not the configured default), so "self" tracks whoever Bolt sounds like
right now."""
known = dict(voices or {})
resolved: list[dict] = []
for index, line in enumerate(action.get("lines") or [], start=1):
name = str(line.get("voice") or "self")
key = name.lower()
if key in SELF_NAMES:
voice_id = self_voice
if not voice_id:
raise DialogueError(
"no voice is configured for the pet itself — set "
"ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID, or name a voice from DIALOGUE_VOICES"
)
elif key in known:
voice_id = known[key]
elif _VOICE_ID_RE.match(name):
voice_id = name # a raw id pasted straight from the voice library
else:
available = ", ".join(sorted(known) + list(SELF_NAMES[:1])) or "self"
raise DialogueError(
f"line {index}: unknown voice {name!r}. Known names: {available}. "
"Use one of those, 'self' for your own voice, or a raw voice id."
)
resolved.append({"text": str(line.get("text") or ""), "voice_id": voice_id})
check_limits(resolved)
return resolved
def check_limits(inputs: Iterable[dict], *, max_voices: int = MAX_VOICES,
max_chars: int = MAX_CHARS) -> None:
"""Enforce the API's own limits before spending a request on a 422."""
entries = list(inputs)
if not entries:
raise DialogueError("no lines to speak")
distinct = {entry["voice_id"] for entry in entries}
if len(distinct) > max_voices:
raise DialogueError(
f"{len(distinct)} different voices — the limit is {max_voices} per scene"
)
total = sum(len(entry["text"]) for entry in entries)
if total > max_chars:
raise DialogueError(
f"{total} characters — the limit is {max_chars} per scene. "
"Split it into two dialoguectl calls."
)
def spoken_text(action: dict) -> str:
"""The scene as readable text, for the speech bubble and the transcript.
Delivery tags are stripped: `[cheerfully]` is a stage direction for the
model, not something to show (or, via tts.speak's sanitizer, to read out)."""
parts = []
for line in action.get("lines") or []:
text = re.sub(r"\[[^\]]{1,40}\]", " ", str(line.get("text") or ""))
text = " ".join(text.split())
if text:
parts.append(text)
return " ".join(parts)
def describe(action: dict, *, played: bool = True) -> str:
"""The tool-result string handed back to the server."""
lines = action.get("lines") or []
voices = sorted({str(line.get("voice") or "self") for line in lines})
note = relay_json.repair_note(action.get("_repairs") or [])
if not played:
return f"[dialogue] not played ({len(lines)} lines){note}"
return (
f"[dialogue] played {len(lines)} line{'s' if len(lines) != 1 else ''} "
f"in {len(voices)} voice{'s' if len(voices) != 1 else ''}: {', '.join(voices)}{note}"
# The scene was spoken out loud before this result got back to the
# server, and the model has no other way to know that. Without saying
# so it writes a final reply summarising what the user just heard, and
# the pet says the same thing twice in a row (observed 2026-07-31).
# An instruction delivered here, at the moment it applies, lands far
# better than a rule buried in a long system prompt.
"\nThe user HEARD this already. Do not repeat, summarise or narrate it "
"in your reply — answer with at most one short line, or nothing new."
)