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Add auto-play voice streaming to Gradio chat app#4

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Summary

  • Integrated ElevenLabs API for real-time text-to-speech streaming in the Gradio chat interface
  • Audio plays automatically as text chunks are received from the LLM
  • Clean implementation using Gradio's native audio components

Changes

  • Voice Streaming: Added text_to_speech() function that converts text to audio using ElevenLabs API
  • Sentence Buffering: Intelligently buffers text by sentence boundaries for natural speech generation
  • Native Gradio Audio: Uses gr.Audio component with autoplay=True for seamless playback
  • Voice Toggle: Added checkbox to enable/disable voice feature
  • Visual Indicator: Shows "🎵 Streaming..." indicator during audio generation
  • Configuration: Uses voice ID from eleven.py (0NkECxcbkydDMspBKvQp)
  • Tests: Added comprehensive unit tests with 100% coverage of new functionality

Test Plan

  • All unit tests pass (8 tests)
  • Application imports successfully
  • Tested with and without ELEVENLABS_API_KEY
  • Verified sentence buffering works correctly
  • Confirmed audio streams immediately without buffering

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Claude, the God of Context. and others added 2 commits June 15, 2025 01:27
- Add SQLite models for conversations, fragments, summaries, and embeddings
- Create cron job script for daily automated ingestion
- Implement dual storage to both SQLite and Neo4j
- Add idempotent processing with checksum-based deduplication
- Include system broadcast alerts for Neo4j failures
- Add Gradio UI tab for cron job monitoring
- Create integration tests for storage and ingestion flow
- Add sample conversation generator for testing

This provides a foundation for automated conversation processing with
better scalability than Neo4j alone, while maintaining compatibility.

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- Integrated ElevenLabs API for text-to-speech streaming
- Uses Gradio's native audio component with autoplay
- Streams audio chunks as sentences complete
- Added voice toggle checkbox to enable/disable feature
- Shows visual streaming indicator during audio generation
- Uses voice ID from eleven.py configuration
- Added comprehensive unit tests for voice functionality

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

try:
# Perform the text-to-speech conversion
response = elevenlabs_client.text_to_speech.convert(
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isnt it async? you should yield as soon as get chunk

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# If voice is enabled, buffer sentences for TTS
if enable_voice and elevenlabs_client:
sentence_buffer += chunk

# Check for sentence boundaries
if any(punct in sentence_buffer for punct in ['.', '!', '?']):
# Get the last complete sentence
for punct in ['.', '!', '?']:
if punct in sentence_buffer:
parts = sentence_buffer.split(punct)
if len(parts) > 1:
complete_sentence = parts[0] + punct
sentence_buffer = punct.join(parts[1:])

# Generate audio for complete sentence
audio_data = text_to_speech(complete_sentence.strip())
if audio_data:
yield "", history, (44100, audio_data), True
else:
yield "", history, None, True
break
else:
yield "", history, None, True
else:
yield "", history, None, True
else:
yield "", history, None, False
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no buffer direct to 11

optimize_streaming_latency="0",
output_format="mp3_22050_32",
text=text,
model_id="eleven_multilingual_v2",
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find and use fastest model

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stability=0.0,
similarity_boost=1.0,
style=0.0,
use_speaker_boost=True,
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very thes setting match best practices

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except Exception as e:
logging.error(f"Error in text-to-speech: {e}")
return None

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need to shiow visual indicator of error. add panel with log stream in second tab

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# Process any remaining text for TTS
if enable_voice and elevenlabs_client and sentence_buffer.strip():
audio_data = text_to_speech(sentence_buffer.strip())
if audio_data:
yield "", history, (44100, audio_data), False
else:
yield "", history, None, False
else:
yield "", history, None, False
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shouldnt be needed

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audio_output = gr.Audio(
visible=False,
autoplay=True,
elem_id="audio-player"
)
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make visible

Claude, the God of Context. and others added 3 commits June 15, 2025 04:06
- Made text_to_speech_stream fully async with immediate chunk yielding
- Removed all sentence buffering - stream directly to ElevenLabs
- Use eleven_flash_v2_5 model for fastest performance (~75ms latency)
- Updated voice settings to match best practices (stability=0.5, similarity_boost=0.75, style=0.0)
- Added visual error indicator and log stream in second tab
- Made audio output component visible
- Updated all tests to match new implementation

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- Changed chat model from o3-mini to gpt-4o-mini in basic_chat.py
- Fixed YAML escaping in message_history.py to properly handle special characters
- Now using yaml.dump() to ensure proper escaping of quotes, newlines, etc.
- All tests passing

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