## Context
Pocket TTS currently offers bundled reference voices. People also need a
local, private way to add a voice without sending audio to a cloud
service.
## Summary
Add a Pocket voice import flow to Voice settings. Buzz opens the native
file picker, decodes common audio formats in the reusable `buzz-voice`
crate, canonicalizes the selected audio, stores it under a
content-derived identity in app data, selects it, and lets the user
delete it later.
## Changes
- Accept WAV, M4A, MP3, FLAC, OGG, and AIFF files between 2 and 30
seconds, including multichannel sources.
- Decode and downmix accepted audio to canonical mono 32 kHz PCM16 WAV
before hashing and storage.
- Store imported voices behind stable `pocket:imported:<sha256>`
identities and content-addressed files.
- Keep absolute file paths inside the native process and expose only
voice metadata to React.
- Include imported voices in Pocket preview and live huddle playback.
- Add Add voice and delete controls while preserving the bundled Pocket
voice catalog.
- Fall back to Mary when the selected imported voice is deleted.
- Keep durable import, selection, and deletion successful when a live
TTS worker acknowledgement is delayed.
- Preserve bundled voices when optional import metadata is unreadable
and keep failed deletion retryable.
## Related issue
None found.
## Testing
Production decoding was exercised with WAV, M4A with AAC, MP3, FLAC, OGG
Vorbis, and AIFF fixtures. Each format canonicalized to mono 32 kHz
PCM16 WAV. Manual validation in the combined daily-driver build covered
native-picker import, Preview, live-huddle playback, deletion, and Mary
fallback.
## Screenshots
The Voice settings card preserves the bundled Pocket catalog and adds
the local Add voice action.
## Reviewer-reproducible examples
Create common-format fixtures and run them through the production
importer:
```bash
. ./bin/activate-hermit
fixtures="$(mktemp -d)"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=220:duration=3" -ac 2 -ar 44100 "$fixtures/voice.wav"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$fixtures/voice.wav" -c:a aac "$fixtures/voice.m4a"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$fixtures/voice.wav" "$fixtures/voice.mp3"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$fixtures/voice.wav" "$fixtures/voice.flac"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$fixtures/voice.wav" -c:a libvorbis "$fixtures/voice.ogg"
ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$fixtures/voice.wav" -c:a pcm_s16be "$fixtures/voice.aiff"
BUZZ_VOICE_IMPORT_TEST_DIR="$fixtures" \
cargo test -p buzz-voice imports_common_audio_format_fixtures -- --ignored --nocapture
```
Exercise import persistence, synthesis, deletion, and bundled-voice
fallback with an installed Pocket model:
```bash
BUZZ_POCKET_MODEL_DIR=/path/to/pocket-model-bundle \
cargo test -p buzz-voice --test pocket_import_audio \
objective_import_synthesis_delete_and_mary_fallback \
-- --ignored --nocapture
```
Exercise the native-picker boundary, selection, preview dispatch,
deletion, cancellation, and invalid-file states:
```bash
cd desktop
pnpm build:e2e
pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/voice-settings.spec.ts --project=smoke
```
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Signed-off-by: John Tennant <jtennant@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: John Tennant <johnmatthewtennant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Tennant <jtennant@squareup.com>
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Relands **#2467** (extract `buzz-voice` crate) and **#3208** (Pocket
voice settings) onto main, after #3266 and #3180 merged.
## Why a fresh PR
The repo is squash-only with delete-branch-on-merge. Squashing #3266
deleted `jtennant/pocket-tts-2026-04`, which was #2467's base — GitHub
auto-closed #2467 and it cannot be reopened. Squash merges also sever
ancestry, so GitHub's natural merge-base reports phantom conflicts for
the whole remaining stack.
## Content provenance
- Byte-identical to the blessed `jt/buzz-voice-refactor` branch
(`93029c577`, tree `6729e0eff` — reviewed by Dawn (#2467) and Max
(#3208) at exact heads) **except** the three files where #3180 and #3208
genuinely interact.
- Three-file resolution (union of both sides):
- `huddle/mod.rs` — #3180's pipeline re-exports + #3208's
`agent_tts_routing` imports.
- `huddle/state.rs` — `reset_preserving_generation` preserves both
`huddle_generation` (#3180) and `tts_enabled` (#3208); test sets merged
into one `tests` module.
- `desktop/src/testing/e2eBridge.ts` — both switch arms kept; no
duplicate case labels.
## Verification at cf32dacd7
- `cargo test` (desktop/src-tauri, pinned 1.95.0): **2047 + 3 pass / 0
fail** (14 ignored: 8 keychain, 4 real_relay, 2 flag-gated)
- `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`: clean; `cargo fmt
--check`: clean
- `cargo check --workspace` (root, includes new `buzz-voice` member):
clean; `cargo test -p buzz-voice`: 5/0
- `pnpm test`: **3885 / 0**; `tsc --noEmit`: clean; lint: clean
The 3180×3208 interaction resolution is getting an independent team
re-review before merge.
Buzz channel: buzz-desktop-voice `fd5fb402-b651-4238-89b1-bb3e2fa4dc96`,
thread `b4798ecc`.
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