🎙️ dsh-talk

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Voice-first session loop for DeepSeek Harness: talk to it, hear it answer.

Press the mic, speak, and the reply is spoken back — with speak-to-interrupt.

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What is dsh-talk?

Voice-first session loop for DeepSeek Harness: talk to it, hear it answer.

Press the mic, speak, and the reply is spoken back — with speak-to-interrupt.

The same run, animated.

Compatibility

| Surface | Status | |---|---| | Harness | DeepSeek Harness dsh-v0.2.1-alpha.1 (adapted 2026-09-24: third peer clause + engines.dsh + manifestVersion: 1, and the monthly Compat workflow anchored to that line); full gate chain green on 2026-09-24 (dual typecheck rulers, 86 tests, build, self-contained, artifacts, pack). npm dev/test line 0.1.7-rc.2, peers >=0.1.2-rc.1 <0.2.0 || >=0.1.5-alpha.1 <0.2.0 || >=0.1.6-0 <0.2.0 || >=0.1.7-0 <0.2.0. | | Node | ^22.19.0 \|\| >=24.0.0 | | Browser | Web Speech + MediaRecorder (Chrome/Edge best); host transcription/TTS engines for the rest |

What you get

dsh-talk closes the voice loop in both directions:

• speak tool — the agent speaks its replies aloud. TTS engines: the browser voice, edge-tts (network neural voices), or piper (local). Audio plays in the browser; on hosts that can carry it, the session log records the sanitized utterance (see Security boundaries).
• Composer mic button — press it, speak, and the transcription lands in the input box (or submits directly). STT engines: the browser's Web Speech (interim results included), a FunASR HTTP server, or local whisper.cpp.
• Speak-to-interrupt — starting to talk stops whatever is playing (client → host over the talk Remote namespace).
• Event announcements — turn completion, pending approvals (waterfall-safe: never blocks the gate), and errors, with a mute switch and configurable phrases.
• Settings tab — engine/language selects and announcement switches, saved as append-only profile-patch operations with backups.

browser                                host
  🎙 press ──▶ interrupt ─────────────────▶ talk/interrupt
  record (MediaRecorder / Web Speech)
  transcribe (browser) or talk/transcribe ─▶ FunASR / whisper.cpp
  setDraft(text) or submit()  ◀── talk:speech projection ── speak tool / announcements
  ▶ play audio (talk/audio or speechSynthesis)

Quick start

dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-talk

# 1. install the bundle into your profile
dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-talk

# or from npm (published releases)
dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-talk

# 2. restart and verify the row
dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep -A2 'id: talk'

Then press the microphone next to the composer and talk; ask the agent to speak its reply:

> Say "hello" with the speak tool.

Install & uninstall

• git channel (latest main): dsh plugin --profile web add github:PerryLink/dsh-talk — the prepare script builds with production dependencies only.
• npm channel (published releases): dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-talk.
• tarball channel: pnpm pack in this repo, then dsh plugin --profile web add ./dsh-talk-<version>.tgz.
• uninstall: dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-talk (or remove the row from the profile patch).

If pnpm reports ERR_PNPM_IGNORED_BUILDS for this package (esbuild's harmless platform-binary validation), add allowBuilds: { esbuild: true } to your pnpm-workspace.yaml — the dsh CLI prints the exact snippet.

Configuration

All tunables are Schemastery Config fields (changeable from cordis.yml). cordis.patch.yml documents each key inline.

| Key | Default | Meaning | |---|---|---| | record.enabled | true | Show the composer mic button | | record.hotkey | (none) | Optional toggle hotkey, e.g. "alt+r" | | record.maxSeconds | 60 | Recording cap in seconds (1..600) | | record.autoSubmit | false | Submit the transcription as a user message (false = fill the draft) | | record.vad.enabled / silenceMs / energyThreshold | true / 1500 / 0.01 | Voice-activity detection: silence auto-ends the recording (degrades when AudioContext is absent) | | stt.engine | auto | auto / web / funasr / whisper; auto prefers a configured local engine, then Web Speech | | stt.language | auto | BCP-47 language or auto | | stt.interim | true | Show interim transcriptions (Web Speech) | | stt.silenceFinaliseMs | 4000 | Stop continuous Web Speech recognition after this many milliseconds without speech (500..15000) | | stt.funasr.url | (none) | FunASR inference endpoint; required when the engine is funasr | | stt.whisper.modelPath | (none) | whisper.cpp model; required when the engine is whisper | | tts.engine | auto | auto / browser / edge-tts / piper; auto prefers piper, then edge-tts, then the browser voice | | tts.rate | 0 | Rate offset in percent (-50..50) for edge-tts/piper | | tts.fallbackToBrowser | true | Fall back to the browser voice when a local engine fails | | tts.browser.voiceName | (none) | Preferred browser voice name; an unknown name uses the platform default | | tts.browser.rate | 1 | Browser SpeechSynthesis rate (0.1..10) | | tts.browser.pitch | 1 | Browser SpeechSynthesis pitch (0..2) | | tts.piper.modelPath | (none) | piper voice model; required when the engine is piper | | announce.enabled | true | Master switch for event announcements | | announce.onTurnEnd / onApproval / onError | true | Which events are spoken | | announce.messages.* | "Turn complete." etc. | Spoken phrases | | interrupt | true | Talking stops current playback | | maxSpeakChars | 20000 | Cap on the speak tool's text length (1..100000) | | maxAudioCacheBytes | 8388608 | In-memory synthesized-audio cache cap (1 MiB..64 MiB) |

stt.silenceFinaliseMs and record.vad.silenceMs are separate mechanisms: the first finalises the Web Speech transcript when continuous recognition hears no speech, the second is the MediaRecorder energy-based detector that ends the recording (and submits it when record.autoSubmit is on). They run in different pipelines and share no state.

Tools & surfaces

| Surface | Kind | Notes | |---|---|---| | speak | tool | Speaks text aloud (browser/edge-tts/piper); per-call engine/voice overrides; canonical JSON outcome | | mic button | conversation.input.left slot | Record → transcribe → fill draft (or submit); speak-to-interrupt on press | | settings tab | settings.plugins.tab (id talk) | Engine/language/announcement switches; append-only save | | talk:* | Typert Remote | status, audio, transcribe, applySettings, interrupt (host namespace) |

Permissions & data

• Permissions: the plugin stores nothing but an in-memory, byte-capped audio cache; microphone permission is browser-mediated. The settings tab only appends patch fragments to the profile with a timestamped backup — never rewrites the file.
• Data: audio never enters the model context or the session log. Where the host's session vocabulary accepts it, the dsh-talk/speech event carries the utterance id, engine, reason, size, sanitized text, and browser voice/rate/pitch when applicable; on envelope-less hosts the event is not written at all. All display/log surfaces redact credentials, JWTs, bearer headers, and temp paths.
• Network: only the engines you configure are contacted. edge-tts performs network synthesis, FunASR uses its configured endpoint, and Chrome's webkitSpeechRecognition sends microphone audio to Google's servers for transcription; browser speechSynthesis playback remains local.

Security boundaries

• Model-visible ⟺ logged — the model sees only the speak tool's canonical value and render text. The dsh-talk/speech event is appended only when the host can carry it (see Host compatibility); the tool/call + tool/result events always remain the reconstructable trail.
• Approval announcements never block — the approval/request listener always calls next().
• Sanitized output — credentials and temp audio paths never reach logs or displays.
• Host compatibility — the dsh-talk/speech event is appended through a yes/no gate. Hosts whose known-type vocabulary covers the event append it, and the call reports that it did; every other host — every released line through 0.1.1-rc.2, the 0.1.2-alpha line, 0.1.2-rc.1, and also 0.1.6-alpha.2, whose Session.append can stamp only the surface intent and not the ignorable envelope (that field is retained for stored-log read compatibility only) — gets no append, so speech can never pollute the session log there. The skip is not silent any more: the host keeps per-session appended/skipped counters and talk/latest(sessionId) reads them back, the client's session-scoped playback list stays empty, and the speak tool results remain the reconstructable audit trail.
• Fail loud — invalid engines, out-of-range values, and engines configured without their required model/endpoint fail the mount.

Known limitations

• Browser support: Web Speech and MediaRecorder are feature-detected; without them the mic button disables itself and host engines (FunASR/whisper.cpp) can still transcribe when configured.
• Local engines are your install: edge-tts, piper, and whisper.cpp executables and models must be installed separately.
• Recording format: the browser records with its native MediaRecorder codec; whisper.cpp may require a WAV-configured recorder or a server-side conversion for other formats.
• Settings apply on reload: the settings tab appends to the profile patch; a profile reload (or web-app restart) activates the changes.
• Live playback history is empty on hosts without the vocabulary: on 0.1.1-rc.2, the 0.1.2-alpha line, 0.1.2-rc.1, and 0.1.6-alpha.2 the host vocabulary does not know dsh-talk/speech, so the gate writes nothing and the client's session-scoped playback list stays empty; talk/latest(sessionId) still answers with the newest utterance and the skipped counter. Speech itself, the mic, the settings tab, and the tool are unaffected.
• Legacy logs written by dsh-talk ≤ 0.2.1 may need repair before cold load: versions through 0.2.1 appended unmarked dsh-talk/speech events. On hosts 0.1.0-rc.7 and newer, a session whose log already contains them fails its next cold load with SessionFormatUnsupportedError. Repair: stop the host, back up the session's .jsonl log, add "ignorable":true as a top-level member of every JSON line whose "type" is "dsh-talk/speech" (for example, insert "ignorable":true, right after the opening {), then reopen the session. Nothing else changes and nothing is lost; new appends from this version never add unmarked events.

Development

pnpm install        # node ^22.19 || >=24
pnpm run typecheck  # tsc: src + tests against the local harness checkout
pnpm run typecheck:ci  # tsc against the published 0.1.7-alpha.2 types (no paths)
pnpm test           # vitest: 86 tests, 15 suites
pnpm run build      # tsc declarations + tsdown bundles (lib/)
pnpm run verify:self-contained  # dependency specs resolve from the registry
pnpm run verify:artifacts       # built ESM faces + client ModuleLoader handshake
pnpm pack           # the published tarball

Interoperability with other DSH plugins

Verified against DSH 0.2.0-rc.2 (the runtime this README ships for) and the high-star plugin set surveyed on 2026-10-05.

This plugin does not interfere with other plugins, including the widely installed high-star ones:

• No tool-name collision. Every tool is namespaced; no bare name owned by a shipped tool or another plugin is registered.
• No service-key collision. It provides talk; that key is not a built-in seam and is not provided by any surveyed high-star plugin.
• No slot collision. It registers no client slot key, so it cannot contend for a shadows-shipped-ui seat.
• No HTTP route collision. It registers no webServer prefix.
• No patch-layer collision. The bundle patch only inserts its own row; it never overrides a built-in row's config.
• No global mutation. It does not patch prototypes, rewrite process.env, or replace the global fetch dispatcher.

Shared event listeners are non-interfering by construction. It observes the ordering-sensitive event approval/request with ctx.on() — Cordis's broadcast registration, where every listener runs and none can starve another. Every listener here delegates through next(), so the chain is never short-circuited, and a mutation is applied to the value next() produced rather than returned in its place:

Static evidence: dsh-plugin-doctor K10–K13 report pass for every check on this repository.

Topics

dsh, dsh-plugin, deepseek-harness, deepseek, cordis, voice, speech, tts, stt, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, microphone

Contributors

• @PerryLink — creator and maintainer: speak pipeline, speech engines, mic recorder, event announcements, projection unit, and the five-language docs.

PerryLink DSH Plugin Family

This project is one of the 33 actively maintained DeepSeek Harness plugins from PerryLink — the roster is 42, of which 6 are frozen and 3 retired; every one keeps its row below, with the reason in the Status column. If this one helps you, the others likely will too:

| Plugin | One-liner | Status | |---|---|---| | dsh-auto-review | Second-model auto-review on the approval chain, fail-closed by default | | | dsh-autotier | Automatic strong/cheap model-tier routing with deterministic risk guards and a /tier command | | | dsh-background-agents | Durable background child agents with a Web UI sidebar, messaging and interrupt | 🚫 RETIRED — see the note above | | dsh-budget | Cost governance for DeepSeek Harness: budgets, carbon, and latency in one panel. | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-catalog | DSH Desktop Market standard catalog source for the PerryLink family | | | dsh-cert-mcp | Read-only MCP server exposing the certification registry: grades, snapshots and five-dimension evidence | | | dsh-checkpoint-rewind | Claude Code /rewind-equivalent: snapshots, session forks, one-shot restore | | | dsh-claude-move | Migrate Claude Code sessions, memory, skills and CLAUDE.md into DSH | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-click | Cross-platform native desktop control for DeepSeek Harness — Windows first. | | | dsh-composer-history | Terminal-style input history for the web composer: arrows, Ctrl+R search | | | dsh-data-quality | Dataset quality checks and citation cross-checks (the optional numeric bridge consumed here) | | | dsh-defend | Prompt-injection, jailbreak, and secret-leak defense for DeepSeek Harness. | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-doublecheck | Engineering-discipline guard: requirements grill, test gates, adversary review | | | dsh-draw | Unified static-image generation routing for DeepSeek Harness. | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-fast | Read-only performance diagnostics for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-fund-research | Deterministic research reports for Chinese public mutual funds | | | dsh-github | GitHub PR/issues integration for DSH, every write gated by approval | | | dsh-industry-research | Industry research orchestration that seals its deliverables through this plugin's ctx.researchReport.assemble | | | dsh-laya | Laya typed decisions (noul/choice/score) as a first-class Cordis service and model-visible tools | | | dsh-library | Local document knowledge base for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-local-ai | Local-model (Ollama) integration for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-lsp-actions | LSP diagnostics, formatting, completion, code actions and rename over language servers | | | dsh-mask | PII masking middleware: anonymize at the model boundary, restore at the display layer | | | dsh-mcp-panel | Read-only MCP runtime panel: /mcp command + Settings tab with status, tools and errors | | | dsh-memento | Approval-gated cross-session memory: ctx.memory seam + SQLite + memory tool | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-observe | OpenTelemetry and Langfuse observability exporter for DeepSeek Harness. | | | dsh-output-styles | Claude Code outputStyles-equivalent runtime style switching | | | dsh-permission-rules | Claude Code-style declarative allow/deny/ask permission rules with audit | | | dsh-plugin-certification | Community certification registry with repro-checkable grades and badges | | | dsh-plugin-doctor | Zero-dependency static + sandbox smoke detector for DSH plugins | | | dsh-plugin-guide | Plugin-development knowledge base as an on-demand agent skill | | | dsh-plugin-kit | Shared zero-runtime-dependency toolkit for the PerryLink DSH plugins | | | dsh-plugin-upgrade | One-package, one-corridor-index plugin upgrade skill: routes a repository to the matching closed corridor card | | | dsh-plugin-upgrade-015 | Merged 0.1.3-alpha.1 → 0.1.5-rc.1 upgrade corridor card plus a zero-dependency seam scanner | 🚫 RETIRED — corridors carried by dsh-plugin-upgrade | | dsh-reach | Multi-channel approval/question bridge: WeChat/Telegram/Feishu, session console | 🧊 FROZEN — see the repo README | | dsh-research-report | Verifiable research-report engine: content-addressed evidence ledger and sealed versions | | | dsh-score | Multi-dimensional quality scoring for DeepSeek Harness plugins. | | | dsh-session-pin | Pin sessions in the Web sidebar with durable ordering | 🚫 RETIRED — see the note above | | dsh-session-sync | Cross-device session sync for DeepSeek Harness — a dedicated git mirror of your session store. | | | dsh-skill-pack-security | Security-audit skill pack: secret scan, dependency and supply-chain review | | | dsh-talk | Voice-first session loop for DeepSeek Harness: talk to it, hear it answer. | | | dsh-team-rooms | Cross-session team rooms: shared message bus, task board and timeline | 🚫 RETIRED — see the note above | | dsh-test-drive | Isolated install-and-smoke test drives for DeepSeek Harness plugins. | | | dsh-ticktick | TickTick/Dida365 task bridge: session-header panel + 11 tools | | | dsh-translate | Vendor parameter translation and deterministic JSON repair for DeepSeek Harness. | |

Install from the DSH Desktop Market

All PerryLink plugins are browsable in the built-in DSH Desktop Market: Market → Sources → add source → paste https://perrylink-dsh-catalog.perrylink.workers.dev/catalog-source.json → select it. Installation still goes through the Market's npm-identity verification and your confirmation.

License

Apache License 2.0 © 2026 dsh-talk contributors