""" Speech-to-text transcription for recorded calls using OpenAI Whisper. Audio is downloaded from GCS then sent to the Whisper API. Falls back to returning None on any failure so the intelligence pipeline can still run. """ import asyncio import re import tempfile import os from typing import Optional from app.internal.logger import logger from app.internal import firestore as fstore from app.internal import ai_health from app.internal import transcript_correction from app.config import settings # Whisper treats `prompt` as preceding transcript text, not instructions. # Writing it as actual radio speech primes the vocabulary toward P25 codes # and phrasing before the model hears the audio. # # DO NOT put an enumerated run of ten-codes in here. The original version of # this prompt opened with "10-4. 10-23. 10-20. 10-97. 10-8. ..." and Whisper, # treating that as text it should continue, filled noisy or silent audio with # sequences like "10-4. 10-5. 10-6. ... 10-99." Those hallucinations sailed # straight past the no_speech_prob filter below, because the model is highly # confident the continuation it invented is speech. Codes appear here only # singly and inside a sentence, where there is no series to extend. _WHISPER_PROMPT = ( "Dispatch, go ahead. Copy that, en route. Show me on scene. " "Be advised, units responding. Negative, stand by. " "Post 4, I'm out. Received, thank you. " "Engine and ladder responding to a structure fire. " "Medic on scene with one patient. " "Vehicle accident with injuries, MVA. " "Show me 10-8 and clear." ) # Degenerate-output detection (see _is_degenerate). Tuned to catch Whisper's # repetition failure mode without discarding terse but real radio traffic. _MIN_CODES_FOR_RUN = 6 # ten-codes needed before a run is even considered _RUN_RATIO = 0.7 # share of consecutive pairs that must step by +1 _MIN_SEGMENTS_FOR_REPEAT = 6 # segments needed before repetition is considered _UNIQUE_RATIO = 0.25 # unique/total segment texts at or below this is degenerate _MAX_PHRASE_REPEATS = 8 # identical consecutive phrase repeats allowed in one blob def _ten_code_run(text: str) -> bool: """True if the text is mostly a counting run of ten-codes. Real traffic uses ten-codes constantly, but never in ascending order — a dispatcher does not say "10-4, 10-5, 10-6". An arithmetic series is the signature of Whisper continuing a pattern rather than hearing one. """ numbers = [int(n) for n in re.findall(r"\b10-(\d{1,2})\b", text)] if len(numbers) < _MIN_CODES_FOR_RUN: return False steps = [b - a for a, b in zip(numbers, numbers[1:])] ascending = sum(1 for s in steps if s == 1) return steps and (ascending / len(steps)) >= _RUN_RATIO def _phrase_loop(text: str) -> bool: """True if one short phrase repeats far more than speech plausibly would. Catches the other repetition mode, e.g. "Dispatch, do you copy?" emitted a dozen times over static. """ parts = [p.strip().lower() for p in re.split(r"[.!?]", text) if p.strip()] if len(parts) <= _MAX_PHRASE_REPEATS: return False repeats = 1 for prev, cur in zip(parts, parts[1:]): repeats = repeats + 1 if cur == prev else 1 if repeats > _MAX_PHRASE_REPEATS: return True return False def _is_degenerate(text: str, segments: list[dict]) -> bool: """True if a transcript looks like Whisper output rather than radio traffic. Applied AFTER the per-segment no_speech_prob filter, which does not catch these: the model reports high confidence in text it invented by continuing a pattern, so the only tell is the shape of the output itself. """ if not text: return False if _ten_code_run(text) or _phrase_loop(text): return True # Near-identical segments repeated across the whole recording. if len(segments) >= _MIN_SEGMENTS_FOR_REPEAT: normalised = {s["text"].strip().lower() for s in segments} if len(normalised) / len(segments) <= _UNIQUE_RATIO: return True return False async def _log_transcribe_failure(call_id: str, exc: Exception) -> None: """ Log a transcription failure, escalating a permanent condition to ERROR once (via app.internal.ai_health, which also drives the /health/ai endpoint and the Discord degradation alert) and reporting it to the shared registry either way. Transcription failing returns None and the pipeline carries on by design, so a per-call WARNING is invisible: no transcript means no extraction, which means no incident, and the only symptom is calls quietly arriving empty. A network blip is genuinely a warning. An exhausted balance is not -- it will not fix itself and it takes the whole pipeline down with it, so it says so once, loudly, and names the fix. The same failure mode already bit the Gemini correlator twice (a retired model ID, then a depleted balance), which is why this is worth the code. """ text = str(exc) kind = ai_health.classify(text) if kind == "billing": problem = "the OpenAI account cannot be billed" fix = "top up at https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing" logger.error( "Transcription: the OpenAI account cannot be billed -- EVERY call is " "now stored with no transcript, so extraction, correlation and " "incidents are all dead downstream. Top up at " f"https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing. API said: {text}" ) await ai_health.report_degraded( "transcription", "openai", settings.stt_model, problem, fix, permanent=True ) return if kind == "dead_model": problem = "the STT model is unavailable" fix = "update STT_MODEL in config.py" logger.error( f"Transcription: the configured model ({settings.stt_model!r}) is unavailable " "-- EVERY call is now stored with no transcript, so extraction, correlation " f"and incidents are all dead downstream. Update STT_MODEL in config.py. API said: {text}" ) await ai_health.report_degraded( "transcription", "openai", settings.stt_model, problem, fix, permanent=True ) return logger.warning(f"Transcription failed for call {call_id}: {text}") await ai_health.report_degraded( "transcription", "openai", settings.stt_model, "transient API error", "no action needed unless this persists", permanent=False, ) async def transcribe_call( call_id: str, gcs_uri: str, talkgroup_name: Optional[str] = None, system_id: Optional[str] = None, talkgroup_id: Optional[int] = None, ) -> tuple[Optional[str], list[dict]]: """ Transcribe audio at the given GCS URI and store the result in Firestore. Returns: (transcript, segments) — segments is a list of {start, end, text} dicts, one per detected transmission. Empty list if transcription failed. """ if not gcs_uri or not gcs_uri.startswith("gs://"): return None, [] try: transcript, segments, degenerate = await asyncio.to_thread( _sync_transcribe, gcs_uri, talkgroup_name ) # A hallucination is a coin-flip, not a property of the clip: call # e49ea32c produced a 56-word ten-code counting run on one attempt and # ordinary speech on the next, same audio and temperature=0. Discarding # on the first bad roll threw away a recoverable transcript, so spend # one more request before giving up. if degenerate and settings.stt_retry_on_degenerate: logger.info(f"Retrying transcription for call {call_id} after degenerate output") transcript, segments, degenerate = await asyncio.to_thread( _sync_transcribe, gcs_uri, talkgroup_name ) if degenerate: logger.warning( f"Transcription for call {call_id} was degenerate twice — giving up" ) except Exception as e: await _log_transcribe_failure(call_id, e) return None, [] # No exception means the provider call itself succeeded (this also # covers transcripts discarded as degenerate/hallucinated output — # that's a filtering decision, not a provider failure), so the # transcription tier is healthy and any prior degradation clears. await ai_health.report_healthy("transcription") if transcript: updates: dict = {"transcript": transcript} if segments: updates["segments"] = segments # Second opinion, before anything downstream sees the text. Whisper # mishears proper nouns confidently, and extraction/embedding/ # correlation all consume the transcript — correcting it afterwards # (which is where it used to live, inside the extraction prompt) meant # every one of them reasoned over known-bad text. server-26#36. corrected, corrected_segments, not_speech = await transcript_correction.correct( call_id, transcript, segments, system_id=system_id, talkgroup_id=talkgroup_id, talkgroup_name=talkgroup_name, ) if corrected_segments: # Raw stays as evidence; the corrected copy is what extraction reads. updates["segments_corrected"] = corrected_segments if not_speech: # The corrector sees what _is_degenerate misses — novel repetition # shapes rather than the two it pattern-matches. Keep the raw text # (it is evidence) but do not let it reach extraction as fact. updates["transcript_not_speech"] = True logger.info( f"Corrector flagged call {call_id} as recogniser noise: {transcript[:80]!r}" ) elif corrected: updates["transcript_corrected"] = corrected try: await fstore.doc_set("calls", call_id, updates) logger.info( f"Transcript saved for call {call_id} " f"({len(transcript)} chars, {len(segments)} segment(s)" f"{', corrected' if corrected and not not_speech else ''})" ) except Exception as e: logger.warning(f"Could not save transcript for {call_id}: {e}") if not_speech: return None, [] # Hand the corrected copies downstream. extract_scenes prefers numbered # segments over the joined transcript, so returning corrected text with # raw segments would have thrown the correction away on every call with # more than one transmission. return corrected or transcript, corrected_segments or segments return transcript, segments def _sync_transcribe( gcs_uri: str, talkgroup_name: Optional[str] = None, ) -> tuple[Optional[str], list[dict], bool]: """Download audio from GCS and transcribe with OpenAI Whisper. Third element is True when output was DISCARDED as degenerate, which the caller distinguishes from ordinary silence so it can retry — the same clip can hallucinate on one attempt and transcribe on the next. """ from google.cloud import storage as gcs from google.oauth2 import service_account from openai import OpenAI from app.config import settings if not settings.openai_api_key: logger.warning("OPENAI_API_KEY not set — transcription disabled.") # Tuple, not a bare None: the caller unpacks two values, so returning # None here raised a TypeError that surfaced as a misleading # "Transcription failed" instead of the real missing-key warning. return None, [], False without_scheme = gcs_uri[len("gs://"):] bucket_name, blob_path = without_scheme.split("/", 1) if settings.gcp_credentials_path: creds = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file( settings.gcp_credentials_path, scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"], ) gcs_client = gcs.Client(credentials=creds) else: gcs_client = gcs.Client() bucket = gcs_client.bucket(bucket_name) blob = bucket.blob(blob_path) suffix = os.path.splitext(blob_path)[1] or ".mp3" with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False) as tmp: tmp_path = tmp.name try: blob.download_to_filename(tmp_path) tg_prefix = f"Talkgroup: {talkgroup_name}. " if talkgroup_name else "" # Vocabulary is intentionally excluded from the Whisper prompt. # whisper-1 treats the prompt as a transcription prior and echoes # vocabulary terms into noise/silence, polluting downstream extraction. # Vocabulary context is applied in the GPT extraction step instead, # where it is used as reference rather than a transcription prior. prompt = tg_prefix + _WHISPER_PROMPT # Only whisper-1 supports verbose_json (per-segment timestamps + no_speech_prob). # gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe only support json/text. use_verbose = settings.stt_model == "whisper-1" openai_client = OpenAI(api_key=settings.openai_api_key) with open(tmp_path, "rb") as f: response = openai_client.audio.transcriptions.create( model=settings.stt_model, file=f, language="en", prompt=prompt, response_format="verbose_json" if use_verbose else "json", temperature=0, ) if use_verbose: # Filter hallucinated segments. Two sources of hallucination in P25 recordings: # # 1. Trailing silence / static — Whisper fills silence past real content with # sequential radio codes (10-4, 10-5...). Clamped by audio duration. # # 2. Leading silence — OP25 recordings typically have a short silence at the # start before the first PTT press. Whisper sometimes hallucinates filler # words or codes over this silence. Detected via no_speech_prob > 0.8 # (Whisper's own confidence that a segment contains no real speech). audio_duration: float = getattr(response, "duration", None) or float("inf") segments = [ {"start": round(s.start, 2), "end": round(s.end, 2), "text": s.text.strip()} for s in (response.segments or []) if s.text.strip() and s.start < audio_duration and getattr(s, "no_speech_prob", 0.0) < 0.8 ] # Reconstruct text from non-hallucinated segments only so the two stay # in sync. If every segment was filtered, text becomes None which prevents # the intelligence pipeline from running on hallucinated content. text = " ".join(s["text"] for s in segments) or None if _is_degenerate(text or "", segments): logger.info(f"Discarded hallucinated transcript for {gcs_uri}: {(text or '')[:80]!r}") return None, [], True return text, segments, False else: # json format returns just {"text": "..."} — no segments or timestamps. # Intelligence extraction falls back to treating the whole transcript as one block. text = (response.text or "").strip() or None if _is_degenerate(text or "", []): logger.info(f"Discarded hallucinated transcript for {gcs_uri}: {(text or '')[:80]!r}") return None, [], True return text, [], False finally: try: os.unlink(tmp_path) except OSError: pass