Mic input gain (was 3x) and per-user receive gain (was 2x) had
asymmetric boost ceilings. Raise both, plus the desktop aux input
gain (was 3x), to a uniform 4x (400%) on macOS, iOS, and Windows.
The master Output volume slider is unchanged (still 1x). No core
changes needed: the C ABI only clamps negatives, so the ceilings
live entirely in the client UI sliders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The picker gated its list on visible-window processes plus audio sessions
on only the default render device. That both showed non-audio apps (any
window) and missed real ones (windowless or routed to a secondary device).
Process loopback targets a PID and its child tree regardless of whether the
app is currently playing, so the gate fought the capture layer.
Now enumerate every process in the user's interactive session (windowed or
not), deduped by executable with the windowed tree-root as the capture PID;
scan all active render endpoints to flag currently-playing apps with a > and
sort them first. Adds a filter box and persists checks across filtering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both desktop mics were hard-mono: the core defaults capture_channels=1 and
neither client ever called vc_set_capture_channels (only iOS did). Add a
persisted "Stereo microphone" toggle to each client's Audio settings, applied
when the mic stream starts and live via vc_set_capture_channels + vc_audio_restart.
Expose both ABI calls in the Windows interop; the macOS wrapper already had them.
Core fix: encode_and_send_frame now folds a stereo mic frame to mono on a mono
channel - previously the channels==2 branch encoded interleaved L/R directly even
on a mono channel, feeding a mono opus_encode 2x its samples (wrong pitch/garbage).
Real stereo still only reaches the wire on a stereo channel; on a mono channel the
mic is cleanly downmixed.
Test: test_stereo_mic_mono_channel. ctest --preset dev green (28/28). Docs: voice.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Lets a user transmit a second hardware input device (e.g. line-in / aux)
alongside the mic, with its own device picker and volume, from Audio Settings.
No core/ABI/proto changes: the aux is a VC_STREAM_AUX_DEVICE stream started
with external_feed=1 and fed via vc_stream_feed_pcm (the same external-feed
pipeline screen-audio uses). Per-kind local_streams_ already allows mic +
screen + one aux to coexist; volume is a client-side gain multiply (the core's
vc_set_input_gain is mic-only/global). Aux is always-on (core never gates
AUX_DEVICE on VAD/PTT) and is tied to the voice session.
Windows: new Audio/InputDeviceCapture.cs (WASAPI shared-mode capture from a
real input endpoint + capture-endpoint enumeration); aux section in
AudioSettingsForm.cs; lifecycle in MainForm.cs; persistence in VoiceSettings.cs.
macOS: new Audio/InputDeviceCapture.swift (AVAudioEngine input-node tap pinned
to the chosen Core Audio device + device enumeration by stable UID); aux section
in SettingsWindowController.swift; lifecycle + UserDefaults persistence in
MainWindowController.swift; file registered in project.pbxproj.
Windows verified (C# solution builds clean; aux confirmed working). macOS build
+ E2E pending a Mac.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audio input settings (device picker, VAD/PTT mode, VAD sensitivity, mic gain,
PTT key) move from the always-visible bottom panel into Settings > Audio...,
matching the macOS/iOS pattern.
The device ComboBox now uses DataSource + DisplayMember="Name" instead of
Items.Add() with no DisplayMember — this fixes both the display bug (was
showing the full DeviceInfo record ToString()) and the NVDA silence on
dropdown open (DataSource binding exposes proper MSAA text per item).
Changes apply live for immediate feedback; Cancel reverts. VoiceSettings
gains InputDeviceId to persist the chosen device across sessions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
- ContextMenuStrip: select first item on Opened so keyboard-invoked menus
(Shift+F10 / Apps key) raise the UIA focus event immediately instead of
staying silent until the first arrow key.
- Name the SplitContainer/SplitterPanel containers so screen readers announce
orientation instead of a stack of anonymous pane nodes.
- Take the resize splitters out of the Tab cycle (TabStop = false) so focus
moves control-to-control.
- RefreshChannelTree: restore keyboard focus and re-announce the current node
after a Nodes.Clear()/rebuild, so the tree no longer loses focus when
channels/users change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"All apps except selected" previously captured the complement of a frozen
app snapshot in INCLUDE mode (missed late-launched apps and system sounds,
wasted captures on silent windows). It now opens a single ProcessLoopbackCapture
in EXCLUDE mode (AUDIOCLIENT_PROCESS_LOOPBACK_MODE_EXCLUDE_TARGET_PROCESS_TREE)
of the one chosen app — true system-mix-minus-one, dynamic so apps launched
after sharing starts are included. The picker enforces single-selection in
exclude mode (the activation params take one target PID).
Adds an "Exclude VoiceCat's own audio (prevents echo)" checkbox (default on,
entire-desktop only) that routes the desktop capture through the same EXCLUDE
path targeting our own process id, killing the whole-device self-echo loop.
No C++/ABI changes. Updates voice.md and PROGRESS.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds "only selected apps" and "all apps except selected" screen-audio
modes to the Windows client, alongside the existing entire-desktop path.
Per-app capture uses WASAPI process loopback (AUDCLNT_ACTIVATIONTYPE_
PROCESS_LOOPBACK) via ProcessLoopbackCapture, mixed by ProcessAudioMixer
and fed to the core through vc_stream_feed_pcm (external_feed=1 so the
core skips its own loopback device).
Init must pass AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_LOOPBACK | EVENTCALLBACK |
AUTOCONVERTPCM; the LOOPBACK flag is what makes the virtual endpoint
deliver rendered audio (without it every buffer is flagged SILENT) and
AUTOCONVERTPCM resamples the app's native format to 48k s16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
Ctrl+Shift+V — join/leave voice
Ctrl+Shift+S — screen share toggle
Ctrl+Shift+M — mute/unmute mic
Ctrl+Shift+D — deafen/undeafen
Focus-scoped (same as PTT). Shortcuts display in the Voice menu for
the two menu-backed actions. Hotkeys are suppressed when a text box
has focus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Voice actions (Join Voice, Share Screen Audio) moved to a ToolStrip toolbar and
a new Voice menu in the menu bar; removed from the bottom voice panel
- Activity log and chat log collapsed into a single RichTextBox (rtbLog); activity
events appear in gray, chat messages in default color
- Private messaging reworked: each conversation opens in its own modeless
PrivateMessageForm instead of sharing the main chat log via a scope dropdown;
cboScope removed; main compose bar always sends to the current channel
- New "Messages -> New Private Message..." menu item (Ctrl+P) opens a UserPickerDialog
listing all connected server users (not just the current channel) so you can PM
anyone on the server
- Channel tree now shows live user counts, e.g. "General (3)" -- counts sourced from
the existing _users dictionary which already tracks all server users with channel IDs
- Global output volume slider (TrackBar, 0-100, default 80) added to the right panel;
wired to new vc_set_output_volume C ABI function that applies a master gain multiplier
in the audio engine playback callback after mixing all streams
- vc_set_output_volume added end-to-end: voicecat.h, audio_engine.h/.cpp,
client.h/.cpp, voicecat.cpp, NativeMethods.cs, VoiceCatClient.cs
- Documented Windows PowerShell ctest requirement in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md:
MinGW binaries exit 0xc0000139 in Git Bash; always run ctest/.exe via PowerShell
22/22 ctest green (PowerShell); dotnet build 0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rationalize the preset set to match the project's actual state (past M5):
- Rename dev->skeleton (no-deps stub smoke), m1-dev->dev (default dev preset)
- Drop m2-dev (cache-identical to m1-dev)
- Add release preset (optimized + tests on, symbols kept)
- Strip server-release binaries (-s linker flag)
- Add apple-dev/apple-ios/apple-ios-sim scaffolding presets for XCFramework
Add cmake/voicecat-toolchain.cmake wrapper that auto-resolves the vcpkg
triplet from the host platform (x64-mingw-static/x64-linux/arm64-osx) so
the main presets work on Windows/Linux/macOS without per-OS variants.
Update all docs (building.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, AGENTS.md, deployment.md,
tech-stack.md, client READMEs) and stale preset-name references in code
comments. No C++ behavior changes — the core was already portable.
PerUserTuningDialog previously broadcast one gain/mute/NR set to *all* of a
user's streams, even though the core mixer (AudioEngine::RemoteStream) and
the C ABI (vc_set_remote_stream) were already per-stream. The UI had no
per-mix controls anywhere.
Reworks the dialog to enumerate ListUserStreams on open and render one row
per stream (kind + label + Gain + Mute + NR), each wiring only to its own
stream_id. Adds a read-back ABI counterpart, vc_get_remote_stream, so the
dialog opens at the listener's actual current per-stream settings (defaults
1.0/unmuted/NR-off) rather than always 100%. Additive ABI change only; no
existing symbols touched.
Tests: test_m3_multistream extended with getter round-trip assertions; new
C# smoke test exercises the full P/Invoke marshaling path with two clients.
Docs: voice.md §10 notes the getter. NR checkbox keeps its honest
'passthrough' label (NS DSP still unbuilt per §8).
The core already supported SCREEN_AUDIO capture on Windows (post-M3 WASAPI
loopback via VOICECAT_HAS_LOOPBACK) and the C# Interop layer was complete
(VcStreamKind.ScreenAudio, StartStream/StopStream/SetRemoteStream). Only the
UI was missing -- no core, proto, or C ABI changes needed.
Adds a 'Share Screen Audio' toggle to the voice panel, independent of mic
voice (can share without joining voice). Disconnect/teardown now stops the
screen stream cleanly. New smoke test exercises the full StartStream ->
StreamStarted -> StopStream -> StreamStopped path through P/Invoke.
A connected Windows client would randomly snap from its joined channel
back to Lobby. Root cause was a state-sync inconsistency, not a drop:
the server delivered self-initiated state changes (channel join/leave,
stream announce/stop) only as a private *Result to the actor and
broadcast the authoritative UserEvent::UPDATED to everyone else. The
core never applied the result to its SessionModel, so vc_list_users()
kept self in the old channel; the Windows HandleUserUpdated rebuilds
_currentChannelId from vc_list_users() on any user's UPDATED event, so
the next unrelated event surfaced the stale self-channel.
Fix, per the response-vs-broadcast contract now documented in
docs/protocol.md §6: the *Result is pure ack/correlation/actor-private
payload; the resulting state change is broadcast to every client
INCLUDING the actor, and clients apply it to their local model rather
than re-deriving own state from a *Result.
- server: join/leave/stream announce+stop broadcast with exclude=0
- server: text fan-out includes the sender (channel + private echo)
- core: response handlers no longer mutate session_model_
- windows: drop optimistic text echo; render own message via the relay
- docs/protocol.md §6: document the response-vs-broadcast contract
Registry-level admin broadcasts (move/mute/kick/channel CRUD) already
used exclude=0 and were correct. ctest build/m1-dev 18/18 green;
VoiceCat.App builds 0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the M4-placeholder stub with a real build/run guide covering prerequisites,
build order (server → DLL → dotnet build), DLL dependency verification, manual test
runbook, and the known limitations (focus-scoped PTT, NR passthrough, no admin UI,
TOFU-pins-leaf-cert vs Ed25519).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Turn the design into a buildable, dependency-free M0 skeleton plus the
onboarding layer so a new agent can pick up instantly.
Build system:
- CMake + CMakePresets (dev = no deps; server-release = vcpkg) + vcpkg.json
- Skeleton builds with just a C++20 compiler; deps stay off until needed
- .gitattributes (LF), .gitignore, .clang-format
Core (libvoicecat):
- core/include/voicecat.h: full C ABI (the client/server contract), stubbed
- core/proto/voicecat.proto: control-plane wire format, matches docs/protocol.md
- src/{net,crypto,codec,protocol,session,audio,core}: subsystem stubs that
return VC_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, each pointing to its design doc
- server/ (voicecat-server) and tools/vccli/ link the core
- tests/: CTest smoke test asserting the C ABI contract (behavior, not just build)
- clients/{apple,windows}: M4 placeholders
Onboarding for agents:
- CLAUDE.md: hub — build/test commands, architecture at a glance, doc map, rules
- AGENTS.md: working method (behavior-driven; clean compile is the floor not the goal)
- PROGRESS.md: living tracker — M0 done, M1 task checklist, "where we left off"
Verified: cmake --preset dev && cmake --build --preset dev && ctest --preset dev → green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
