Bound the final-transcription phase with a deadline - #1246
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… engine is slow A slow-but-alive primary engine previously had no remedy: automatic recovery fallback only fires on a hard error, so a degraded provider meant waiting out the full request. This adds an opt-in hedge to the Automatic Fallback feature: when the primary transcription has not answered within a configurable threshold, the same audio is dispatched to the recovery fallback engine in parallel; whichever result arrives first wins and the losing request is cancelled. - The race lives in DictationViewModel.transcribeFinalAudio via a task group; a primary failure before the hedge fires is rethrown so the existing sequential error-path fallback applies unchanged, and a primary failure after the hedge fires awaits the in-flight fallback. - Off by default; the toggle and threshold stepper sit in the Dictation Recovery settings under Automatic Fallback, gated on the same license and engine-configuration checks, with a note that a dispatched race costs one extra API call. - The primary engine call is now routed through an injectable PrimaryTranscriptionRunner (mirroring RecoveryFallbackRunner), which keeps the race deterministic under test. - New settings are included in settings backup/restore. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A cloud transcription request that neither errors nor completes (a stalled upload, a server that accepted the audio and went silent) left the app in "Transcribing..." indefinitely; the only way out was Escape. The hedge race does not help here because both engines can hang the same way. transcribeFinalAudio now races the whole phase (primary, hedge, and the sequential fallback together) against a deadline of 60 seconds plus the recording's own length. When the deadline passes the in-flight requests are cancelled and a TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded error flows through the existing failure path, so the user sees an error and the recording is kept in Dictation Recovery instead of the app hanging. The bound is injectable for tests and scales with audio length so long recordings on slow local engines are not cut off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDictation recovery now supports persisted hedging settings, concurrent primary and fallback transcription, and an audio-duration-based deadline that cancels stalled transcription tasks. ChangesDictation Recovery transcription
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The deadline path can still wait indefinitely when a transcription runner ignores cancellation, so the advertised bound is not reliable; an eligible early primary failure can also skip automatic fallback, while imported hedge settings remain stale until restart. Merge should wait for these correctness, availability, and integration issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DictationViewModel
participant PrimaryTranscriptionRunner
participant RecoveryFallbackRunner
DictationViewModel->>PrimaryTranscriptionRunner: Start primary transcription
DictationViewModel->>DictationViewModel: Wait for hedge threshold
DictationViewModel->>RecoveryFallbackRunner: Start fallback transcription
PrimaryTranscriptionRunner-->>DictationViewModel: Return primary result
RecoveryFallbackRunner-->>DictationViewModel: Return fallback result
DictationViewModel->>DictationViewModel: Cancel loser or timed-out tasks
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In `@TypeWhisper/Services/SettingsBackupExporter.swift`:
- Around line 866-867: After applying the imported dictation recovery
preferences in the export/import flow, invoke a post-import reload on the
existing DictationRecoveryViewModel so its hedge-enabled and threshold
properties refresh immediately. Update the callback or reload method used by
DictationRecoveryViewModel and preserve the UserDefaults writes.
In `@TypeWhisper/ViewModels/DictationViewModel.swift`:
- Line 2317: Make the transcription deadline in transcribeFinalAudio independent
of cooperative cancellation: when the deadline fires, abort the transport and
ensure the primaryTranscriptionRunner is resumed or otherwise unblocked so
withThrowingTaskGroup does not wait on a cancellation-ignoring runner. Preserve
TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded propagation, and add a test using a runner that
ignores cancellation for two seconds to verify a 0.1-second deadline throws in
under one second.
In `@TypeWhisperTests/TypeWhisperIntegrationTests.swift`:
- Line 12040: Update hedgedTranscription so failures accepted by
shouldAttemptAutomaticRecoveryFallback(after:) dispatch fallbackRunner
immediately, even when the primary fails before the hedge threshold; preserve
the existing test expectation and other non-recoverable early-failure behavior.
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| apply(preferences.dictationRecoveryHedgeEnabled, forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.dictationRecoveryHedgeEnabled) | ||
| apply(preferences.dictationRecoveryHedgeThresholdSeconds, forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.dictationRecoveryHedgeThresholdSeconds) |
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Reload hedge preferences after import.
Lines 866-867 update only UserDefaults. DictationRecoveryViewModel reads these values during initialization, and ServiceContainer queries that in-memory instance for the active hedge threshold. An import therefore does not change the displayed or active hedge configuration until the app restarts. Add a post-import callback that reloads these properties in DictationRecoveryViewModel.
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In `@TypeWhisper/Services/SettingsBackupExporter.swift` around lines 866 - 867,
After applying the imported dictation recovery preferences in the export/import
flow, invoke a post-import reload on the existing DictationRecoveryViewModel so
its hedge-enabled and threshold properties refresh immediately. Update the
callback or reload method used by DictationRecoveryViewModel and preserve the
UserDefaults writes.
| logger.error("Final transcription exceeded its deadline of \(deadline, format: .fixed(precision: 1))s; abandoning in-flight requests") | ||
| throw TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded(seconds: deadline) | ||
| } | ||
| defer { group.cancelAll() } |
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In Swift structured concurrency, a withThrowingTaskGroup scope always waits for all of its child tasks to complete before the function returns [1][2]. This guarantee holds regardless of whether the group finishes normally or as the result of a cancellation [1][3]. Key aspects of this behavior include: 1. Mandatory Waiting: Even if tasks are canceled, the withThrowingTaskGroup function does not return until all child tasks have finished executing [1][2]. There is no mechanism to have the group return "immediately" while leaving child tasks running, as this would violate the structured nature of the concurrency model [2]. 2. Cooperative Cancellation: Cancellation is a request, not a forced termination [4]. When a task group is canceled (e.g., via cancelAll(), the parent task being canceled, or an error being thrown out of the group body), child tasks must cooperatively check for cancellation (using Task.isCancelled or Task.checkCancellation()) and attempt to exit their work early [1][5][4]. The task group will remain suspended, waiting for these tasks to reach their own completion points [1][2]. 3. Normal vs. Exceptional Exit: If the withThrowingTaskGroup block exits normally, the group waits for all tasks to finish [6]. If an error is thrown out of the body closure, the group is implicitly canceled, but it still waits for all remaining child tasks to react to that cancellation and complete before the error is rethrown to the parent scope [1][7][2]. If you require "fire-and-forget" behavior where the parent scope does not wait for child tasks, you must use unstructured tasks (such as Task.init or Task.detached) rather than a task group [2].
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Make the transcription deadline independent of cooperative cancellation.
withThrowingTaskGroup waits for all child tasks. cancelAll() only requests cancellation. Because primaryTranscriptionRunner is an arbitrary async closure and the plugin transcription contract has no cancellation guarantee, a runner that ignores cancellation can keep transcribeFinalAudio suspended after the deadline task throws. Abort the transport and resume the runner on cancellation. Add a test with a runner that ignores cancellation for two seconds and assert that a 0.1-second deadline throws TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded in less than one second.
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In `@TypeWhisper/ViewModels/DictationViewModel.swift` at line 2317, Make the
transcription deadline in transcribeFinalAudio independent of cooperative
cancellation: when the deadline fires, abort the transport and ensure the
primaryTranscriptionRunner is resumed or otherwise unblocked so
withThrowingTaskGroup does not wait on a cancellation-ignoring runner. Preserve
TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded propagation, and add a test using a runner that
ignores cancellation for two seconds to verify a 0.1-second deadline throws in
under one second.
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Dispatch the recovery fallback after an eligible early primary failure.
At Line 12040, this test expects a fallback result. hedgedTranscription currently cancels the group and returns primaryFailedBeforeHedge when the primary fails before the threshold. A PluginTranscriptionError.rateLimited failure therefore escapes instead of starting fallbackRunner.
Keep the test expectation. Change hedgedTranscription so an error accepted by shouldAttemptAutomaticRecoveryFallback(after:) dispatches the fallback immediately, without waiting for the hedge threshold.
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In `@TypeWhisperTests/TypeWhisperIntegrationTests.swift` at line 12040, Update
hedgedTranscription so failures accepted by
shouldAttemptAutomaticRecoveryFallback(after:) dispatch fallbackRunner
immediately, even when the primary fails before the hedge threshold; preserve
the existing test expectation and other non-recoverable early-failure behavior.
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Requesting changes on exact head b6a7ef065538d3745217f42d1cf0b969ea6bd7c1 before merge:
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The deadline is still cooperative and therefore not a reliable upper bound.
withThrowingTaskGroupdoes not return until all child tasks finish.group.cancelAll()only requests cancellation, whileprimaryTranscriptionRunnerand the plugin transcription contract do not guarantee prompt cancellation. A runner that ignores cancellation can therefore keeptranscribeFinalAudiosuspended after the deadline task throws, which defeats the central promise of this PR. The current test uses cancellation-awareTask.sleep, so it cannot expose this. Please add a cancellation-ignoring runner regression and use a lifecycle that aborts the underlying transport and can actually returnTranscriptionDeadlineExceededat the bound. -
This stacked PR still contains all of #1230, which already has unresolved correctness blockers. In particular, the hedge race has the same cancellation-sensitive winner path, and restored
hedgeThresholdSecondsvalues are converted to nanoseconds without finiteness/range validation; a valid persistedDoublesuch as1e308can trap during theUInt64conversion. Please resolve #1230 first, then rebase or split this PR so the deadline change is reviewed against a corrected base. -
Imported hedge settings do not update the live configuration. The importer writes only to
UserDefaults, whileServiceContainerreads the already-initializedDictationRecoveryViewModel. The displayed and active hedge values therefore remain stale until restart. Please reload the view model after import and validate the imported threshold against the supported finite1...15range.
The current CI checks are green, but they do not cover a cancellation-ignoring transcription runner or the imported-value cases above.
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Closing this PR during backlog cleanup. The changes requested on September 2 remain unanswered, and this branch has not been updated since that review. It still contains the older version of #1230 rather than its September 6 revisions, and the deadline cancellation and settings-import concerns remain unaddressed in this PR. Please reopen after updating the stacked base and addressing the deadline review, including a cancellation-ignoring runner regression. This closure does not close the underlying issue #1245. Thanks for the contribution. |
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Apologies for letting this one sit — the September 2 review went unanswered while I was working through the other PRs, and that's on me. Reopening on a corrected base with all three points addressed. Base. The branch is rebased onto the current head of #1230 (the September 6 revision: arbiter-based race, threshold validation, engine-selection fix). It is still stacked on #1230 since that PR is not merged yet; the deadline change is the last commit and is the only new material here.
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…1246) (#1301) * Add hedged transcription: race the recovery fallback when the primary engine is slow A slow-but-alive primary engine previously had no remedy: automatic recovery fallback only fires on a hard error, so a degraded provider meant waiting out the full request. This adds an opt-in hedge to the Automatic Fallback feature: when the primary transcription has not answered within a configurable threshold, the same audio is dispatched to the recovery fallback engine in parallel; whichever result arrives first wins and the losing request is cancelled. - The race lives in DictationViewModel.transcribeFinalAudio via a task group; a primary failure before the hedge fires is rethrown so the existing sequential error-path fallback applies unchanged, and a primary failure after the hedge fires awaits the in-flight fallback. - Off by default; the toggle and threshold stepper sit in the Dictation Recovery settings under Automatic Fallback, gated on the same license and engine-configuration checks, with a note that a dispatched race costs one extra API call. - The primary engine call is now routed through an injectable PrimaryTranscriptionRunner (mirroring RecoveryFallbackRunner), which keeps the race deterministic under test. - New settings are included in settings backup/restore. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Settle the hedged race on the first decisive event; validate the threshold; keep the fallback engine selection - The race no longer uses a task group, which waits for every child before its scope exits: with a losing engine that does not honour cooperative cancellation (the plugin contract does not guarantee it) the winner was delayed until the loser gave up, defeating the feature. Both requests now run as unstructured tasks under an arbiter that resumes the caller on the first decisive event, cancels both tasks, and drops whatever the loser reports later; the loser is never awaited. Outer cancellation is forwarded. Regression test uses a primary that ignores cancellation entirely and asserts the fallback result returns without waiting. - The hedge threshold is clamped to the range the UI offers (1...15 s) at every entry point - stored value, live value, and settings-backup restore, where a non-finite or out-of-range value is rejected - so a value like 1e308 can never reach the sleep conversion. - The threshold label uses locale-aware number formatting. - DictationRecoveryViewModel no longer erases the stored recovery engine when the plugin manager cannot resolve it at that instant (plugin bundles still loading after a relaunch, or a reload in flight). That reconcile runs on every plugin-manager change and was silently wiping the fallback engine, which turns the hedge off entirely; an unresolved selection already degrades safely to no fallback until the plugin is available. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Bound the final-transcription phase with a deadline A cloud transcription request that neither errors nor completes (a stalled upload, a server that accepted the audio and went silent) left the app in "Transcribing..." indefinitely; the only way out was Escape. The hedge race does not help here because both engines can hang the same way. transcribeFinalAudio now races the whole phase (primary, hedge, and the sequential fallback together) against a deadline of 60 seconds plus the recording's own length. When the deadline passes the in-flight requests are cancelled and a TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded error flows through the existing failure path, so the user sees an error and the recording is kept in Dictation Recovery instead of the app hanging. The bound is injectable for tests and scales with audio length so long recordings on slow local engines are not cut off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Settle the transcription deadline on the first decisive event; reload imported recovery preferences Review follow-ups for the transcription deadline: - The deadline no longer depends on cooperative cancellation. The whole final-transcription phase runs as an unstructured task settled through a DeadlineArbiter (the same first-decisive-event design the hedge race uses): when the deadline fires the caller receives TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded at the bound, the in-flight work is cancelled (which aborts the transport for runners that honour cancellation) but never awaited, and a late result is dropped. Outer cancellation is forwarded. Regression test with runners that wait on plain dispatch timers no Task cancellation can interrupt. - Imported hedge settings now update the live configuration: SettingsBackupExporter.importBackup reports when any recovery preference was applied, and the settings view reloads DictationRecoveryViewModel.shared from UserDefaults, so the values ServiceContainer consults change without a restart. Tests cover the import notification and the reload (including clamping). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Reload the retention policy into the recovery view model after a settings import A retention-only import updated AudioRecordingService through recoveryRetentionPolicyDidChange but left DictationRecoveryViewModel's retentionPolicy stale. The import now also reports a retention change to dictationRecoveryPreferencesDidChange, and reloadPreferencesFromDefaults() loads the retention policy alongside the other recovery preferences. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Skip the hedge for a non-finite or non-positive threshold The threshold provider is injectable, so the conversion to a sleep duration in hedgedTranscription must not trust it: only a finite, positive value starts the race, anything else runs the primary path (with the sequential error-path fallback unchanged) instead of trapping in the UInt64 conversion. Regression test covers infinity, NaN, negative and zero. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Forward the live-reload callbacks through the automation import service SettingsBackupAutomationService (the local HTTP API's import path) passed neither cancellationBehaviorDidChange nor dictationRecoveryPreferencesDidChange to importBackup, so an in-process import updated UserDefaults while DictationViewModel and DictationRecoveryViewModel kept stale values. Both callbacks are now accepted, forwarded, and wired in ServiceContainer the same way the settings view wires them. Test covers the forwarding. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Convert the hedge threshold to nanoseconds only when the product is representable Checking the threshold for finiteness and sign was not enough: 1e308 passes both and UInt64(1e308 * 1_000_000_000) still traps because the product is infinite, and a finite product past UInt64's range traps as well. The conversion now goes through hedgeDelayNanoseconds(forThreshold:), which accepts only a finite, positive threshold up to 60 s whose nanosecond product is finite and representable; anything else means no hedge, with the sequential error-path fallback unchanged. The race consults the same helper before sleeping. Tests cover 1e308, 1e12 and the 60 s boundary alongside the earlier invalid values, plus unit coverage of the helper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Describe only the timeout in TranscriptionDeadlineExceeded The error text claimed the recording was kept in Dictation Recovery, which is not true under the 'Immediately' retention policy or after a failed file move. The description now covers the timeout only; the failure path appends the recovery confirmation and the Open Recovery action itself when a file was actually preserved. Two API-path tests cover the timeout feedback with recovery disabled and with a preserved recording, using a transcription mock that hangs on a timer no cancellation can interrupt, and the dictation context harness can now inject a transcription deadline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Marco Hillger <marco@seofood.de>
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Fixes #1245.
Stacked on #1230 (hedged transcription) — the first commit here is #1230's; please review only the last commit,
Bound the final-transcription phase with a deadline. I'll rebase once #1230 lands.Problem
A cloud transcription request that neither errors nor completes (a stalled upload, a server that accepted the audio and went silent) leaves the app in "Transcribing…" indefinitely. The 30 s request timeout only fires when no bytes flow at all, and the hedge race only helps when the primary is slow but answers — two engines hanging the same way are unbounded. The only way out is Escape.
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transcribeFinalAudionow races the whole phase (primary, hedge, and the sequential fallback together) against a deadline via a throwing task group. The default bound is 60 s + the recording's own length, so long recordings on slow local engines are not cut off, while a hung cloud request can never pin the app. When the deadline passes the in-flight requests are cancelled and aTranscriptionDeadlineExceedederror flows through the existing failure path: the user sees the error toast ("Transcription timed out after N seconds. The recording was kept in Dictation Recovery.") and the recovery WAV is preserved.The bound is injectable (
transcriptionDeadlineProvider) for tests;nildisables it.Tests
testTranscriptionDeadlineAbandonsHungPrimaryAndFallback— both runners hang; the call throwsTranscriptionDeadlineExceededat the configured deadline and both hung runners observe cancellation.testTranscriptionDeadlineDoesNotInterfereWithFastPrimary— a fast primary completes normally and the fallback is never dispatched.testDefaultTranscriptionDeadlineScalesWithRecordingLength— the default formula.Full suite on the combined local branch: 1681 tests, 0 failures. This branch compiles clean on top of #1230.
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