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Fix conversation captions, streamed meanings, and final usage recovery - #128

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Live transcript chunks can end inside a word. Preserve those chunks so captions no longer gain spaces inside words, while retaining the original assembly rules when validating saved learning evidence. Place typed replies on the voice timeline so they cannot be inserted into an earlier assistant sentence.

Stream translated meanings on iOS and Android before the full response completes. Preserve completed-response compatibility, bounded parsing, cancellation, stale-response protection, and single-request usage settlement. Remove the extra iOS follow-up wait after a slow translation. Keep a readable translation visible until the next partial stream catches up instead of flashing back to its first word.

Keep the backend final-usage receiver alive when closing a call cancels queued context. Previously that notice was treated as transport loss, leaving a completed call's reservation unresolved.

Shorten and localize teaching guidance for all eight languages, make clear corrections noticeable, and ask for topic-change confirmation. Stop injecting asynchronous assessment notes into speech after a device run reproduced the voice reading those notes aloud. Learning assessments remain saved, speaking pace still adapts, and prior practice goals remain available to later conversations.

Validation

  • Backend: 372 tests pass against an isolated database; type checking and build pass. The close regression test fails before the fix and passes afterward.
  • iOS: 111 core tests pass; final signed device build succeeds. Physical-iPhone tests use synthetic speech injected through native WebRTC input, covering all eight languages.
  • Android: 351 unit tests, lint, and debug build pass. Seventeen native emulator UI checks pass. Live hosted checks cover 20 typed turns across all eight languages, with provider speech, captions, meanings, and settlement. Android microphone recognition was not tested.
  • Saved learning evidence: all eight language projections match for an archive containing 25 sessions and 235 vocabulary entries. Normal builds were restored on both devices; the user confirmed saved words remain visible on the iPhone.
  • iPhone translation streaming: 339 matched requests; first text arrives a median 202 ms before completion. Android: 40 matched requests, median 239.5 ms head start. These measure callbacks, not audio-to-pixel synchronization or pure inference time.
  • Final Norwegian policy check: 6/6 clear errors corrected, compared with 0/6 for each earlier prompt in the controlled comparable subset. This does not establish that PR Improve conversation diagnostics, silence handling, and adaptive delivery #62 caused the historical regression.

Known release gaps

Review supports merging the implemented fixes, with the following conversation-quality work still open. Final explicit topic confirmation passed in 7/8 iPhone language cases; English followed the new topic without confirmation. Earlier broad tests corrected 13/14 recognition-preserved errors, left all eight dedicated correct-sentence controls alone, and challenged all eight false factual claims, but also exposed false corrections in other topic turns and an invented detail. Android's French typed flow repeated learner text alongside the prepared answer. Those cases have not all been rerun under the final prompt wording.

The final policy reorder was compiled and unit-tested on Android; the complete live matrix predates that last reorder. Prompt improvements are supported by the samples, but conversation behavior is not yet verified for general release.

Deployment

Backend revision b0d60da8c5011e6ff1a158dd1d37918dcca60042 is deployed and healthy (17 September, 14:44 UTC). Public health, database readiness, enabled features, source/image identity, and pre-admission JSON errors were verified. Existing configuration, encrypted backup, and rollback image were retained; no pricing or migration changes were needed.

Nine Android calls after the initial close fix closed normally with no unresolved test calls or held minutes. The two authorized historical test holds were released with audit records preserving unknown final provider cost; no credits or replacement account were created.

Review commit b0d60da fixes mixed-case streaming headers and q=0 opt-outs, with before/after HTTP regression evidence. Its matching backend was deployed after existing conversations ended, with a fresh encrypted backup and retained rollback image. Four header-contract cases passed inside the deployed image using stubs; public health, readiness, feature state, and JSON authentication errors also passed.

Merge review

Review evidence covers the runtime changes and CodeQL alert #59. A new HTTP regression proves that JSON and streaming helpers share the existing network rate limit before authentication and provider admission, including encoded paths and spoofed forwarding. The alert is a documented false positive; scanning and rate limits remain enabled. Native conversation-quality limitations above remain follow-up work.

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The change adds streamed meaning translations across Android, iOS, and the hosted service. It adds bounded SSE parsing, partial-caption state handling, caption assembly versioning, evidence validation updates, localized teaching guidance, and related integration tests.

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Caption assembly and streaming translation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Caption assembly and evidence versioning
apps/android/app/src/main/java/chat/mural/core/Models.kt, apps/ios/Core/Models.swift, */LearningEngine.*, *CaptionAssembly*Tests.*
Caption joining preserves provider word fragments. Assessments record the assembly version. Evidence validation uses the matching assembly rules. Typed replies use provider fragment timing.
Provider SSE transport and decoding
apps/android/app/src/main/java/chat/mural/network/*, apps/ios/App/APIClient.swift, apps/ios/Core/ResponseTextStream.swift, *APIClientTest*, *ResponseTextStreamTests*
Android and iOS add bounded SSE transport and decoding for streamed Responses output. Tests cover deltas, completion, errors, limits, usage, Unicode, and cancellation.
Hosted helper streaming path
services/api/src/app.ts, services/api/src/hosted-helpers.ts, services/api/src/hosted-responses-transport.ts, services/api/src/response-text-stream.ts, services/api/tests/*
Hosted helper requests carry streaming callbacks, emit SSE deltas and terminal events, and retain JSON behavior for non-streaming requests.
Streaming meaning state and integration
apps/android/app/src/main/java/chat/mural/core/MeaningController.kt, apps/ios/Core/MeaningController.swift, */ConversationProviders.*, *Meaning*Tests.*, CaptionParityTest.kt
Meaning controllers display valid partial text, reject stale callbacks, save only completed results, and share pending requests. Android and iOS wire the streaming meaning path.
Teaching prompts and session lifecycle
*/TeachingPolicy.*, services/api/src/live-provider.ts, services/api/tests/hosted.test.ts
Teaching prompts use localized guidance and bounded learner context. Voice assessment context injection is reduced. A specific closing-time provider error no longer ends the session before final usage arrives.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MeaningController
  participant APIClient
  participant HostedHelperRoute
  participant Provider
  MeaningController->>APIClient: request streamed meaning
  APIClient->>HostedHelperRoute: send meaning request with stream enabled
  HostedHelperRoute->>Provider: request provider SSE stream
  Provider-->>HostedHelperRoute: output text delta
  HostedHelperRoute-->>APIClient: meaning delta
  APIClient-->>MeaningController: partial translation
  Provider-->>HostedHelperRoute: completed response
  HostedHelperRoute-->>APIClient: final text and usage
  APIClient-->>MeaningController: completed translation
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The streaming opt-in behavior retains JSON responses for wildcard and non-streaming clients, with no concrete merge-blocking issue identified.

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