voice-cat/core/src/audio/apm_processor.h

/*
 * audio/apm_processor.h — Send-side audio processing module (AEC/NS/AGC/VAD).
 *
 * Design: docs/voice.md §11. Uses webrtc-audio-processing when VOICECAT_HAS_APM is defined;
 * falls back to a no-op passthrough (VAD always open, PCM unmodified) otherwise.
 */
#ifndef VOICECAT_AUDIO_APM_PROCESSOR_H
#define VOICECAT_AUDIO_APM_PROCESSOR_H

#include <cstdint>
#include <memory>

namespace voicecat::audio {

class ApmProcessor {
   public:
    virtual ~ApmProcessor() = default;

    // Feed the most recent playback reference (for AEC). Call before process_capture().
    virtual void process_render(const int16_t* pcm, int samples, int sample_rate) = 0;

    // Process one capture frame in-place (AEC, NS, AGC).
    // Returns true if VAD detects speech (or always true in passthrough mode).
    // Returns false → caller should skip encode/send (silence gate).
    virtual bool process_capture(int16_t* pcm, int samples, int sample_rate) = 0;

    // Factory: returns a real APM if VOICECAT_HAS_APM is defined, else a passthrough. Used for
    // recv-side per-stream noise reduction (docs/voice.md §10) — gating doesn't apply there, so
    // this stays a passthrough until a real APM/NS backend exists (still inert; see
    // PROGRESS.md). Do not use this for the send-side VAD gate — see create_vad() below.
    static std::unique_ptr<ApmProcessor> create();

    // Factory for the send-side input gate (docs/voice.md §11): a lightweight, dependency-free
    // energy/RMS VAD with configurable threshold + hang-time. webrtc-audio-processing (the
    // originally-planned APM) has no working Windows/MSVC build upstream (GCC-only Meson build,
    // unfinished MinGW support, hard abseil-cpp dependency — see PROGRESS.md), so this is the
    // real v1 implementation behind the same ApmProcessor interface, not a passthrough. No AEC
    // — process_render() is a no-op here; that's a real limitation versus the originally-planned
    // APM, not just a deferred VAD.
    //   rms_threshold: normalized 0.0-1.0 RMS-of-int16-range; default ~0.025.
    //   hang_time_ms:  how long the gate stays open after the last loud frame; default 300 ms
    //                  (matches AudioEngine's kTalkHangoverMs so "talking" and "gate open" agree).
    static std::unique_ptr<ApmProcessor> create_vad(float rms_threshold = 0.025f,
                                                     int64_t hang_time_ms = 300);
};

}  // namespace voicecat::audio

#endif  // VOICECAT_AUDIO_APM_PROCESSOR_H