🎙️ dsh-talk

• 1024 store channel: npm i -g dsh1024 once, then dsh1024 plugin --profile web add dsh-talk (counts toward the deepseek1024.com install ranking).

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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Compatibility

Surface	Status
Harness	DeepSeek Harness dsh-v0.1.6-alpha.2 (adapted 2026-09-18: third peer clause + engines.dsh + manifestVersion: 1, and the monthly Compat workflow anchored to that line); full gate chain green on 2026-09-18 (dual typecheck rulers, 86 tests, build, self-contained, artifacts, pack). npm dev/test line 0.1.5-rc.2, peers `>=0.1.2-rc.1 <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

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

# 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#main" — 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 0.1.5-rc.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

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 41 DeepSeek Harness plugins maintained by PerryLink. If this one helps you, the others likely will too:

Plugin	One-liner
dsh-auto-review	Second-model auto-review on the approval chain, fail-closed by default
dsh-background-agents	Durable background child agents with a Web UI sidebar, messaging and interrupt
dsh-budget	Cost governance for DeepSeek Harness: budgets, carbon, and latency in one panel.
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
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.
dsh-doublecheck	Engineering-discipline guard: requirements grill, test gates, adversary review
dsh-draw	Unified static-image generation routing for DeepSeek Harness.
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-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
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-personal-directive	Personal directive injector with top-bar toggle (framework edition)
dsh-plugin-guide	Plugin-development knowledge base as an on-demand agent skill
dsh-plugin-doctor	Zero-dependency static + sandbox smoke detector for DSH plugins
dsh-reach	Multi-channel approval/question bridge: WeChat/Telegram/Feishu, session console
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
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-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.
dsh-wechat	WeChat ↔ DSH bridge (Tencent iLink bot): text/image/file/voice, approvals in chat
dsh-autotier	Automatic strong/cheap model-tier routing with deterministic risk guards and a /tier command
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-kit	One-command starter pack that installs the core family
dsh-plugin-certification	Community certification registry with repro-checkable grades and badges
dsh-plugin-kit	Shared zero-runtime-dependency toolkit for the PerryLink DSH plugins
dsh-plugin-portal	Zero-dependency static portal rendering the whole plugin family as one page
dsh-plugin-upgrade-015	Merged 0.1.3-alpha.1 → 0.1.5-rc.1 upgrade corridor card plus a zero-dependency seam scanner
dsh-team-rooms	Cross-session team rooms: shared message bus, task board and timeline

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