Three bugs fixed across the full stack (proto/server/core/ABI/Win/macOS/iOS):
1. Join/Leave Voice now truly subscribes/unsubscribes from the voice plane.
Previously the button only toggled the local mic — receiving was always on
(gated by channel membership alone). Added a protocol-level voice subscription
concept: new SubscribeVoiceRequest/UnsubscribeVoiceRequest/VoiceSubscriptionResult
proto messages, User.voice_subscribed field, vc_join_voice/vc_leave_voice C ABI
functions, VC_EVENT_VOICE_STATE event, server-side voice_subscribed flag checked
by the SFU relay recipient filter, and core-client gating of remote-stream
decoder setup. All three clients rewired to subscribe+mic on Join / unsubscribe
on Leave. Text chat works regardless of voice subscription.
2. Channel edit dialog now shows the channel's actual current settings. The read
struct vc_channel was missing sort_order and audio fields — only the write
struct vc_channel_info had them. Extended vc_channel with both (additive, no
ABI break), updated the session model and list_channels marshaling to populate
them, and updated all three clients' edit callers to use actual channel info
instead of hardcoded defaults.
3. Channel parameter updates now automatically restart everyone's streams.
Previously editing a channel's audio config persisted and broadcast a
ChannelEvent::UPDATED, but no layer restarted streams — encoders/decoders are
frozen at announce time. handle_channel_event now detects audio-config changes
on the user's current channel and stop->starts each active local stream. The
server reads the updated config on re-announce; peers wire up fresh decoders
at the new ssrc.
All 29 CTest tests pass; Windows DLL + C# client build clean. Apple clients not
yet compile-verified (Windows environment).
Expose the existing send-side vc_set_input_noise_reduction C ABI (MIC-only,
mono, LOCAL — denoises captured mic PCM before input gain and VAD/PTT gate)
as a persisted global toggle in each client's audio settings, applied live
and re-applied on Join Voice. Mirrors the existing mic-gain wiring pattern.
- Shared Swift (VoiceCatCore): add setInputNoiseReduction(_:) wrapper
- Windows: P/Invoke + SetInputNoiseReduction wrapper, MicNoiseReduction in
VoiceSettings, new checkbox in AudioSettingsForm (layout shifted +28px),
apply on Join Voice; also fix stale 'planned - currently passthrough'
label on the receive-side per-user NR checkbox (RNNoise now backs it)
- macOS: inputNoiseReduction state + UserDefaults in MainWindowController,
NR checkbox + nrChanged action in SettingsWindowController
- iOS: inputNoiseReduction in VoiceState + setter + restore in SessionState,
NR Toggle in SettingsView Voice section
Aux/screen are out of scope by design (core's NR guards kind == MIC). Apple
builds require a rebuilt VoiceCatCore.xcframework with VOICECAT_HAS_NS.
Input mode (VAD/PTT/Always-On), VAD threshold, and the new mic gain were
applied to the core + UI but never saved, so every relaunch reset to VAD
defaults. Each client now persists them and re-applies on connect:
- iOS: UserDefaults (SessionState.loadAndApplyVoiceSettings + setter writes)
- macOS: UserDefaults via MainWindowController didSet + loadPersistedAudioSettings
(settings window also restores the VAD slider from the stored threshold)
- Windows: new Models/VoiceSettings.cs (JSON at %AppData%\VoiceCat\voice.json,
mirrors FeedbackSettings) loaded/applied in MainForm
Add global send-side mic gain API vc_set_input_gain (applied to MIC PCM in
on_capture_frame before the VAD gate, clamped to int16) + Swift/C# bindings,
and a 0-300% (default 100%) mic-volume slider on all three clients.
Fix iOS chat: ChatView called sendText(scope:.channel) with no targetId (0),
so channel messages went nowhere; now passes session.currentChannelId.
Fix iOS per-user tuning for VoiceOver: the tuning sheet was long-press
.contextMenu only (invisible to VoiceOver); UserRow now also exposes the same
buttons via .accessibilityActions (no visual change).
Verified: core builds clean; ctest 24/27 (3 pre-existing teardown crashes,
reproduced with changes stashed); VoiceCatMac + VoiceCatiOS (arm64 sim) build
SUCCEEDED; VoiceCat.Interop dotnet build succeeded. Windows App not built
(WinForms can't build on macOS) — follows existing patterns.
Add audible cues and optional spoken announcements for session events
(join/leave, channel + PM sent/recv, login, logout/connection-lost,
mic on/off, voice-activity, PTT) across all three clients, driven off
the shared C ABI vc_event stream so the mapping stays consistent.
TTS is off by default; when enabled it announces events and reads
message/PM bodies aloud. Master toggles + a sound-volume slider; the
per-utterance voice-activity and PTT cues default off. WAVs ship from
assets/sounds/.
Windows (built + verified): new VoiceCat.App/Notifications/ layer
(FeedbackSettings -> %AppData%\VoiceCat\feedback.json, SoundPlayerPool
via System.Media.SoundPlayer, SpeechAnnouncer via Prismatoid 0.3.0,
EventFeedback dispatcher); MainForm hooks; NotificationSettingsForm
under Settings > Notifications; csproj adds the Prismatoid PackageRef
and copies the WAVs into sounds\.
macOS + iOS (written, not yet built -- needs a Mac): shared
VoiceCatCore/Feedback/ (SoundEvent, EventFeedback = AVAudioPlayer pool
+ native AVSpeechSynthesizer, FeedbackSettings over UserDefaults); WAVs
bundled via Package.swift resources (.process). Hooks in SessionState/
AppState (iOS) and MainWindowController (macOS); settings UI in
SettingsView (iOS) and SettingsWindowController (macOS).
No core/server code touched; ctest --preset dev unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
iOS "voice chat" had echo and no noise suppression: real iOS AEC/NS/AGC
come only from Apple's Voice-Processing I/O unit (VPIO), but the core
plays/captures via miniaudio's plain RemoteIO units, so .voiceChat mode
alone never engaged AEC.
Core (ABI PATCH 1->2):
- vc_set_mixed_output_sink + vc_set_external_playback. In external mode the
AudioEngine opens no hardware playback device; a mixer-timer thread drives
on_playback (decode+mix) on a ~20ms cadence and ships the final mix to the
sink. start() also skips the hardware capture device when the MIC stream is
external_feed (AudioParams.external_capture).
- New white-box test test_external_playback (drives the timer with no hw).
iOS/Swift:
- StreamDescriptor.externalFeed; VoiceCatClient.setMixedOutputSink /
setExternalPlayback wrappers.
- IOSVoiceProcessingEngine: AVAudioEngine + setVoiceProcessingEnabled; mic
tap -> feedPcm, mixed-sink lock-free ring -> AVAudioSourceNode (both share
the VPIO unit so AEC has its reference signal).
- IOSAudioRouter.currentConfigUsesVoiceProcessing scopes VPIO to the AEC
presets; SessionState join/leave + reconcileVoicePath() switch paths;
Voice Chat defaults to speaker; Settings surfaces AEC/NS state.
Known: pending on-device verification; a few bugs to fix afterward.
Channel create/edit UIs only surfaced a subset of the core's vc_audio_config,
and DRED was exposed nowhere. While adding it, found a latent ABI mismatch:
both Swift AudioConfig and the C# VcAudioConfigNative blittable struct were one
int short of the native vc_audio_config (missing the trailing `dred`), so native
read past the managed struct in vc_create_channel/vc_edit_channel.
- core marshaling: thread `dred` through Swift (Models/Marshaling/toNative) and
C# (Structs/Models/Marshaling/VoiceCatClient) -- fixes the ABI gap + enables it
- windows: add the one missing DRED checkbox to ChannelEditDialog
- macos: ChannelEditSheet now exposes application, sample rate, packet loss,
complexity, and DRED (was stereo/bitrate/frame/FEC/DTX only)
- ios: rebuild ChannelEditView into a full create+edit form (all params); add
SessionState.editChannel + an admin Edit swipe action (iOS had no edit UI)
- guest nickname: add a dedicated `nickname` to SavedServer on macOS+iOS
(backward-compatible Codable), shown in Guest mode, wired into the guest auth
path -- guests could not set a display name on either before (only Windows)
Verified: macOS + iOS (sim, arm64) xcodebuild BUILD SUCCEEDED; core ctest 22/23
(only external_pcm aborts on a pre-existing shutdown mutex race; no C++ changed).
Mirrors the Windows client's UI overhaul (commit 97fa659 + 540ec13) adapted to
Mac-native conventions. The main window is now just toolbar + channels + users
+ chat; audio device settings moved to a modeless Settings window.
- NSToolbar: Join Voice, Share Screen Audio, Mute, Deafen (SF Symbol toggle
buttons) + Output Volume slider (NSSlider 0-100, default 80). Voice actions,
mute/deafen, and output volume moved out of the bottom panel into the toolbar
- Audio device settings (input mode, VAD sensitivity, PTT key, device picker,
level meter) moved to a new SettingsWindowController -- a modeless window
opened via the app menu's "Settings..." (Cmd+,) item. Source-of-truth for
audio state lives in MainWindowController so voice start applies settings even
before the window has been opened; SettingsWindowController reads from /
writes back to those properties and applies changes live when voice is active.
Level meter forwarded from handleLevel -> updateLevel(rms:)
- Unified log: chat NSTextView + activity NSTableView collapsed into a single
NSTextView -- activity events in secondaryLabelColor (gray), chat in default
- Private messaging: scope dropdown removed; compose always sends to the
current channel. Each PM conversation opens in its own modeless
PrivateMessageWindowController. Incoming .textMessage with .private scope
routed to the right window; outgoing PMs echoed by server arrive through the
same path. "Send Private Message..." added to user context menu.
- Messages menu: "New Private Message..." (Cmd+Shift+N) opens a UserPickerSheet
listing all server users so you can PM anyone on the server
- Channel tree now shows live user counts, e.g. "General (3)"; refreshChannelTree
called on .userJoined/.userLeft (was missing)
- Voice menu: Join Voice (Cmd+Shift+V), Share Screen Audio (Cmd+Shift+S),
Mute (Cmd+Shift+M), Deafen (Cmd+Shift+D) -- NSMenuItem key equivalents with
[.command, .shift] mask, dispatched by the responder chain
- setOutputVolume(_:) wrapper added to VoiceCatClient.swift (was missing -- the
C ABI + C# wrapper shipped in commit 97fa659 but the Swift wrapper was never
added); wired end-to-end: toolbar slider -> client.setOutputVolume(gain)
Part A -- fixed and verified the previously-uncompiled Swift from the external
PCM feed/tap commit (615d2a8):
- Rebuilt the macOS xcframework slice (regenerated the module map from current
voicecat.h, exposing vc_pcm_sink_cb / vc_stream_feed_pcm / vc_set_pcm_sink)
- Fixed feedPcm type bug: size_t imports as Int in Swift not UInt; the original
UInt(samplesPerChannel) was wrong
- Added VoiceCatPcmSinkCallback typealias -- a Swift-idiomatic public alias for
the C vc_pcm_sink_cb so consumers (tests, the macOS app) can declare a sink
callback without directly importing the VoiceCatC C module. Mirrors the C#
VcPcmSinkCallback delegate
- keyCodeName helper deduplicated (was in PttKeyCaptureSheet.swift +
MainWindowController.swift -- now shared)
Platform-specific adaptations (vs. Windows): NSToolbar instead of ToolStrip;
global menu bar + NSMenuItem key equivalents (Cmd not Ctrl, responder-chain
dispatched, no custom key monitor needed); PM windows as modeless NSWindows;
picker as Mac sheet; gray = secondaryLabelColor; SF Symbols for toolbar icons.
swift test 10/10 (4 ExternalPcmTests + 6 VoiceCatClientSmokeTests against a
live server); xcodebuild Debug + Release BUILD SUCCEEDED with 0 Swift warnings.
After the stereo-mic/A2DP debugging settled, the iOS audio code carried
leftover TeamTalk5 comparison notes, source-line citations, TEMP DIAGNOSTIC
markers, and "this was the bug" narratives that no longer help. Reworded
those to state the current rules; kept the comments that document real
constraints (the setPreferredInputNumberOfChannels(2) trap, the re-entrancy
guard, the ma_context no-session-management config).
Comment-only — no behavior change. core builds, ctest --preset dev 21/21.
Diagnosed by comparing against TeamTalk5 (Client/iTeamTalk), which
achieves stereo mic + A2DP output. Five fixes:
1. configureStereoCapture now calls setPreferredInput +
setInputDataSource (mirroring TeamTalk5's SoundDevicesModel).
Previously omitted based on incorrect diagnosis that
setPreferredInput collapsed A2DP — the real culprit was
setPreferredInputNumberOfChannels(2), which neither project uses.
2. New C ABI: vc_audio_restart (full stop + re-init, unlike
suspend/resume which only stop/start). Swift wrapper added.
The withAudioSuspend wrapper that used it was removed after
on-device testing showed it killed all audio (including
VoiceOver) when switching presets — the core's
set_capture_channels handles engine restart internally.
3. Bluetooth options: Voice Chat preset now includes BOTH
.allowBluetoothHFP AND .allowBluetoothA2DP (matching TeamTalk5's
UtilSound.swift:228). Previously HFP-only blocked A2DP headphones.
4. Capture channels now reset when switching stereo→mono via
selectCaptureChannels/applyPreset. AudioSessionManager tracks
activeMicStreamId (set by SessionState on join/leave voice).
5. Docs synced: voice.md, tech-stack.md, architecture.md,
PROGRESS.md. Removed stale setPreferredInputNumberOfChannels(2)
references.
Verified: ctest --preset dev 21/21 green, iOS client builds.
Stereo mic + A2DP output still needs on-device debugging — the
core recipe is correct but iOS 26 route behavior requires
hands-on testing with a debugger.
Three iOS client problems fixed plus a new core stereo-mic capture ABI:
1. Channel-id sync bug (mic button permanently dimmed): SessionState never
synced currentChannelId from the self user's channelId on connect, so the
mic button (gated on currentChannelId == 0) stayed dimmed. Added
syncSelfChannel() (mirrors macOS MainWindowController.swift:461,491,522);
called from init/.channelList/.userJoined/.userLeft/.userUpdated/.joinResult.
Added applyServerMuteState() + serverMuted/serverDeafened to VoiceState.
2. Join/Leave Voice button: replaced icon-only mic toggle with explicit
text button (parity with macOS). Mute/deafen disable when not in voice.
3. IOSAudioRouter.swift (new): full AVAudioSession routing layer — input
port selection, built-in mic orientation/polar patterns, Bluetooth
HFP/A2DP/Off modes, Standard/Raw mic processing, stereo capture, AirPlay,
UserDefaults persistence. AudioSessionManager delegates to it.
4. Core stereo-mic capture (append-only ABI): vc_set_capture_channels()
lets the core open the mic device in stereo (2-ch interleaved). LocalStream
gains capture_channels; ensure_audio_running reads it; audio_engine.cpp
capture_accum_ + on_capture updated to channel-aware accumulation. Test
test_stereo_mic_capture (headless, L!=R stereo round-trip). Swift wrapper
VoiceCatClient.setCaptureChannels.
5. Settings UI rework: AVAudioSession-derived input/output tree replaces
miniaudio device picker.
6. iOS deployment target raised to 18.0 (Package.swift + project.pbxproj).
swift-tools-version 6.0 with swiftLanguageModes .v5.
Docs: tech-stack.md, architecture.md, voice.md, roadmap.md, building.md
updated; stale 'vc_audio_suspend/resume deferred' claims corrected.
Verified: ctest --preset dev 21/21 green; swift test 6/6 green;
xcodebuild -target VoiceCatiOS -sdk iphonesimulator BUILD SUCCEEDED.
Full SwiftUI app at clients/apple/iOS/VoiceCatiOS.xcodeproj:
- 24 Swift source files: AppState + SessionState (@Observable @MainActor),
AudioSessionManager (AVAudioSession owner + interruption/route handling),
ServerListStore/SavedServer (App Group container + Keychain sharing),
and 14 SwiftUI views covering the full feature set
- NavigationSplitView on iPad, TabView on iPhone (horizontalSizeClass)
- Channel tree via OutlineGroup, user list with context menu admin actions
- PTT via DragGesture(minimumDistance: 0) + @GestureState
- onEvent closures hop to MainActor via Task { @MainActor in ... }
- App Group: group.cat.voice.VoiceCat (shared with future ReplayKit extension)
C ABI: add vc_audio_suspend / vc_audio_resume (AudioEngine::suspend/resume)
called by AudioSessionManager on AVAudioSession interruption events.
XCFramework: add ios-arm64 and ios-arm64-simulator slices to build-xcframework.sh;
Package.swift gains .iOS(.v17) platform; CMakePresets.json adds apple-ios /
apple-ios-sim presets with arm64-ios / arm64-ios-simulator vcpkg triplets.
Verified: xcodebuild -target VoiceCatiOS -sdk iphonesimulator26.5 BUILD SUCCEEDED.
Lays the groundwork for the macOS (AppKit) and iOS (SwiftUI) clients with a shared
Swift core wrapping the C ABI, mirroring the proven Windows VoiceCat.Interop layer.
Architecture decision: macOS UI = AppKit (not SwiftUI) for the most mature VoiceOver
accessibility story — same rationale as the Windows client's WinForms-over-WinUI-3
decision. iOS stays SwiftUI. Recorded in docs/roadmap.md §2.
Build infrastructure (Phase 0):
- clients/apple/scripts/build-xcframework.sh: runs cmake --preset apple-dev, merges
libvoicecat.a + 107 vcpkg static deps into a single ~30 MB fat static library
(libvoicecat-fat.a) via libtool -static (SPM binary targets link one .a per slice),
stages voicecat.h + a generated module.modulemap (module VoiceCatC) into the headers,
runs xcodebuild -create-xcframework -> clients/apple/VoiceCatCore.xcframework.
VoiceCatCore Swift Package (Phase 1):
- Package.swift: binary target (VoiceCatCoreXCF) + library (VoiceCatCore) + test target.
- Sources/VoiceCatCore/: 7 files mirroring the C# VoiceCat.Interop patterns adapted to
Swift native C interop — Enums (9 Swift mirrors of C enums, UInt32-backed), Config,
Event (copies ev.text to String inside the callback — the #1 lifetime rule), Models
(10 Swift value types), Marshaling (C arrays -> Swift + immediate vc_free_*),
Callbacks (@convention(c) + Unmanaged.passUnretained, the Swift analog of C#'s
[UnmanagedCallersOnly] + GCHandle), VoiceCatClient (owns vc_client* as OpaquePointer,
all 38 C ABI functions, deinit -> vc_client_destroy then frees config CStrings, event
delivery on main queue via coalesced DispatchQueue.main drain).
Tests — 6/6 green (swift test against a real voicecat-server):
- testConnectTofuAuthListChannelsRoundTrips, testAdminChannelCrudAccountCrudRoundTrips,
testScreenAudioStreamStartsAndStops, testPerStreamRecvControlsRoundTrip, plus two
static smoke tests. Catches Swift-specific interop bugs (@convention(c) callback
lifetime, Unmanaged pointer resolution, CString memory management, enum raw-value
bridging, struct layout) that C++ ctest cannot. C++ suite still 21/21 green.
Docs updated (house rule): tech-stack.md §2, architecture.md §4, roadmap.md M4 + §2,
clients/apple/README.md (full rewrite), PROGRESS.md, .gitignore.
