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On 8 GB unified-memory Macs a transcript-free clone left a full-precision Whisper resident next to the TTS weights and swapped until the recv deadline. This PR:

  • releases an implicitly loaded reference ASR before synthesis;
  • routes every reference without a transcript through the cached-prompt path, so the model's own ASR is not reloaded and released on every line;
  • trims a selected passage to pauses and re-transcribes it, falling back to the untrimmed passage when the trimmed copy has no words;
  • makes [diag] output opt-in (OMNIVOICE_DIAG=1), adds CUDA memory to it, and never logs the reference transcript (the sidecar's stderr reaches backend logs and crash dialogs).

Tests

Regression tests added for each behaviour (sidecar short-reference caching, transcript-free diagnostics, diagnostics off by default, trim edge cases incl. stereo/short/silent, empty-after-trim fallback, actual ASR release).

Not yet run: the author's machine has no pytest/torch environment, so the new and changed tests were only syntax-checked and the changelog linter was run. CI is the first real run.

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  • On a real 8 GB Apple Silicon Mac, memory and swap actually drop (run with OMNIVOICE_DIAG=1).
  • The (#2619) ref in the CHANGELOG entries is updated to this PR's number.

This change releases implicitly loaded reference ASR before synthesis and reuses encoded prompts for references without transcripts to reduce memory pressure on 8 GB Macs. It trims selected reference passages to pauses and re-transcribes them; opt-in diagnostics report memory without logging reference transcripts. Tests were syntax-checked only, so CI results and validation of memory and swap behavior on an 8 GB Apple Silicon Mac remain unconfirmed.

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[High risk] Refactors voice cloning memory management and reference encoding.

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Summary

The PR releases reference ASR before synthesis, reuses transcript-free clone prompts, trims selected passages, and makes memory diagnostics opt-in. The changes since the previous review distinguish a failed recognition attempt from a completed attempt that found no words. No new merge-changing issue was identified.

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…s once, keep diagnostics private

On 8 GB unified-memory Macs a transcript-free clone left a full-precision
Whisper resident next to the TTS weights and swapped until the recv deadline.

- Release an implicitly loaded reference ASR before synthesis.
- Route every reference without a transcript through the cached-prompt path so
  the model's own ASR is not reloaded and released on every line.
- Trim a selected passage to pauses and re-transcribe it; fall back to the
  untrimmed passage when the trimmed copy has no words.
- Diagnostics are opt-in (OMNIVOICE_DIAG=1), report CUDA memory, and never
  include the reference transcript (it reaches backend logs and crash dialogs).
- Add regression tests and CHANGELOG entries.
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… ranking a long reference

Ranking a transcript-free reference over 20 s transcribes several windows with
the installed recognizer, which stayed resident beside the TTS model. The
sidecar now wraps prompt building in release_reference_asr_after(), which
unloads every recognizer the pass used once, after the last window.
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Voice-cloning requests can reuse cached prompts for transcript-free references. The changes add ASR release controls and optional diagnostics. Automatic reference passages can be trimmed at pauses and retranscribed.

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Voice cloning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reuse transcript-free reference prompts
backend/services/asr_backend.py, backend/services/tts_backend.py, backend/engines/omnivoice_subprocess/main.py, backend/tests/test_omnivoice_subprocess.py, CHANGELOG.md
Sidecar requests with reference audio and no transcript use generate_with_cached_ref. Reference-ASR backends used during prompt preparation are released when preparation ends. The prompt cache tracks recognizer identity, and tests cover reuse, retries, and deferred release.
Manage ASR memory and diagnostics
omnivoice/models/omnivoice.py, tests/test_reference_asr_offline.py
Prompt creation releases ASR loaded during that call, including after errors, and retains ASR that was already loaded. Optional diagnostics report memory and synthesis details. Tests cover release behavior, precision selection, and diagnostics.
Trim and verify reference passages
omnivoice/utils/audio.py, omnivoice/models/omnivoice.py, tests/test_omnivoice_reference_bound.py, tests/test_reference_passage_edges.py
Selected reference passages are trimmed at qualifying pauses and retranscribed. The trimmed passage is used only when its transcript contains words; otherwise the original passage and transcript remain selected. Tests cover trim boundaries and fallback behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: debpalash

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c55ae

Reference transcription across multiple windows now reuses one set of recognizers and releases them when the pass ends, which reduces memory pressure. No concrete merge-blocking issue remains; real-hardware memory behavior and the first CI run are still outstanding.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2cee5

Private reference material can now persist across process restarts in default-enabled local storage. Bounded storage and an environment-level opt-out limit the exposure, but the new route does not honor the per-call no-store setting. No unauthorized access or privilege escalation was demonstrated.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · observed: The new transcript-free sidecar path extends private-reference retention beyond the process lifetime. Successful prompt preparation can persist reference transcript text and audio tokens in the default-enabled disk cache, including before synthesis succeeds. The sidecar excludes cache_ref from forwarded generation controls, so a per-call cache_ref=False cannot suppress this storage. Clearing the prompt cache clears only memory. This is an expanded data-lifecycle exposure, not a demonstrated unauthorized read; filesystem access is still required, storage is bounded, and an environment-level disk opt-out exists.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure expansion is local persistence of transcript text and reusable voice-conditioning tokens under DATA_DIR/prompt_cache. Readers with access to that directory could obtain this material after the child exits. Cross-tenant access, filesystem permissions and remote access to these files were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The privacy-relevant path is caller-supplied reference audio, unresolved sidecar synthesis, cached prompt construction, and serialization of the resulting transcript and audio tokens. Subsequent disclosure requires access to the stored file; no unauthorized reader or exploitable remote path was demonstrated. The persistence mechanism predates the PR, but its reachability from this sidecar path is new.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Existing controls include a parent authorization-check invocation, serialized request transport, an inherited environment-level disk-cache opt-out, atomic disk replacement and restricted prompt deserialization. These limit exposure but do not preserve the per-call no-store marker across the new sidecar-to-cache transition.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Exception-safe ASR and passage cleanup provide bounded resource ownership under the serialized child model. However, successful disk publication precedes synthesis, so failed synthesis or process interruption can leave durable reference conditioning. Process-level cleanup therefore does not also provide private-data cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Separate process-lifetime reference reuse from durable storage, preserve cache_ref=False through the sidecar boundary, and define deletion or retention behavior for persisted reference conditioning. This would retain encode-once benefits without silently extending private-data lifetime.
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Cross-Platform Default Parity ✅ Passed Default clone changes apply on all platforms: the sidecar uses the same cached-reference path, recognizer lifecycle, and pause trimming without OS-specific branches. CUDA/MPS cleanup differs only for …
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- Around line 159-197: Disable the omnivoice prompt disk cache in both
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…ecar tests

A disk hit would skip create_voice_clone_prompt and falsify the encode count.

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🟠 Major · Reuse the recognizer during a deferred reference pass. · asr_backend.py:3310

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reuse the recognizer during a deferred reference pass. When a long reference has several windows, _omnivoice_installed_passage calls transcribe_reference for each window, and load_active_asr_backend can create a new recognizer each time; this line retains every recognizer until the context exits, so multiple models can occupy memory at once. Reuse one candidate instance for the pass before deferring its release. As per path instructions, “Check: thread-safety of model and cache state across the GPU worker pool; device/dtype assumptions that break on one of CUDA/MPS/ROCm/CPU; VRAM lifecycle (load/unload, leaks on the error path).”

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Update _omnivoice_installed_passage and its deferred-candidate handling so all
windows in one reference pass reuse a single recognizer instance instead of
retaining a newly loaded recognizer per window; defer that instance’s release
once after the pass.

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343-343: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Send opt-in diagnostics through logging. _diag uses bare print() for its stderr output, contrary to the repository's Python logging rule. Configure a diagnostic logger to write to stderr when enabled, while keeping the current opt-in behavior. As per path instructions, “For Python, match the edited file’s style; use logging rather than bare print().”

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Update `_diag` to emit diagnostics through a configured Python logger directed
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Enable diagnostics before testing the import failure. Without OMNIVOICE_DIAG=1, _diag returns before it imports the patched psutil module, so this test passes even if enabled diagnostics would raise. Set the environment variable before the call. As per path instructions, “Check: the test would fail before the fix and pass after (no tautologies).”

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- Line 1465: Update _get_clone_prompt so repeated sidecar requests for the same
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transcribe_reference. Avoid rerunning ASR after a prompt was already encoded,
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- Line 3310: Update _omnivoice_installed_passage and its deferred-candidate
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instead of retaining a newly loaded recognizer per window; defer that instance’s
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Comment thread backend/services/tts_backend.py
Comment thread omnivoice/models/omnivoice.py Outdated
Comment thread tests/test_reference_asr_offline.py Outdated
…ASR, tolerate trim failures

- A deferred reference pass reuses one discovered recognizer set across all
  windows, so it holds one model instead of one per window.
- A cached transcript-free prompt is reused before the recognizer is tried
  again, in the prompt builder and in the sidecar pre-pass.
- A failure transcribing the trimmed passage keeps the untrimmed passage.
- Tests: snapshots that pass the installed-weights check, a real assertion
  that the released recognizer was loaded, and coverage for each change.
Comment thread backend/engines/omnivoice_subprocess/main.py
…cognizers it was built under

The prompt key carries no recognizer, so a recognizer the user installs or
selects later never got to transcribe a reference an earlier chain could not.
Record the recognizer chain per cached prompt, skip ASR only while it is
unchanged, and refresh the record after a retry that still finds no words.
Comment thread backend/services/tts_backend.py Outdated
…d without words

A recognizer that raised may succeed on the next try, so it is no longer
recorded as having found nothing and is retried on later requests.
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