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Closes #936

What changed

  • Keep /voice as a persistent mode for repeated dictation.
  • Move the recording gesture from plain Space to Ctrl+Space, leaving normal typed spaces untouched.
  • Preserve hold-to-record on terminals with key-release events and press-to-toggle elsewhere.
  • Stop hold recording when either Ctrl or Space is released, regardless of release order.
  • Accept Ctrl+Space events that also carry CapsLock or NumLock state.
  • Update the voice indicator, command description, and STT setup guidance to show the new shortcut.

Verification

  • Added regressions for normal spaced typing on both terminal tiers.
  • Added press, repeat, release-order, toggle-fallback, and lock-modifier coverage.
  • Focused TUI tests and focused race tests pass.
  • make fmt-check
  • go vet ./...
  • make lint-static
  • make vulncheck
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release build
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
  • Manual terminal check confirmed spaces remain intact while voice mode is enabled and both Ctrl/Space release orders stop recording.

go test ./... reaches the existing TestAltScreenTranscriptScrollKeepsFooterFixed failure, which reproduces unchanged on current main; all other packages pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Voice dictation now activates with Ctrl+Space for hold-to-record and toggle behavior.
    • Regular Space remains available for typing while voice mode is active.
    • Voice indicators now show capture status and the configured model.
    • Updated prompts, notices, and command guidance reflect shortcut and terminal behavior.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of key-release events for reliable recording control.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for shortcuts, release handling, toggling, indicators, and normal Space input.

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  • [pass] Diff hygiene: git diff --check
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Head: 72440a85bf36
Changed files (7): internal/tui/commands.go, internal/tui/dictation.go, internal/tui/dictation_voice.go, internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go, internal/tui/model.go, internal/tui/stt_key_prompt.go, internal/tui/stt_model_picker.go

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Voice dictation now activates with Ctrl+Space. Hold and toggle behavior remain supported. Release handling accepts either chord key, and ordinary Space continues through the composer. Indicators and notices now show capture status.

Changes

Voice capture input

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture key matching and release handling
internal/tui/dictation_voice.go
Voice capture recognizes Ctrl+Space, supports hold and toggle behavior, and handles release events from either chord key.
Voice-mode routing and coverage
internal/tui/model.go, internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go
Voice mode reserves Ctrl+Space, preserves ordinary Space input, and tests modifiers, releases, terminal tiers, and composer behavior.
Shortcut descriptions and indicators
internal/tui/commands.go, internal/tui/dictation.go, internal/tui/stt_key_prompt.go, internal/tui/stt_model_picker.go, internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go
Help text and notices use shared capture text. The voice indicator shows capture status and model information.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 72440

The PR moves recording to Ctrl+Space while preserving hold and toggle modes, but some user-facing descriptions may still misstate behavior on toggle terminals and could confuse users about recording controls. This is a bounded issue that is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Terminal
  participant TUIModel
  participant VoiceCapture
  participant Composer
  Terminal->>TUIModel: Ctrl+Space key event
  TUIModel->>VoiceCapture: Start or toggle capture
  Terminal->>TUIModel: Ctrl or Space release event
  TUIModel->>VoiceCapture: Stop hold capture
  Terminal->>Composer: Ordinary Space key event
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The changes address issue #936 by moving voice capture to Ctrl+Space, allowing ordinary Space input in voice mode. The implementation also updates terminal-tier behavior, guidance, indicators, status text, and regression tests.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/tui/commands.go`:
- Line 112: Update the voice-mode help and notices to describe both terminal
behaviors: hold Ctrl+Space to record where key-release events are supported, and
press Ctrl+Space to toggle recording where they are not. Apply this to
internal/tui/commands.go lines 112-112, internal/tui/dictation.go lines 91-91
and 196-204, internal/tui/stt_key_prompt.go line 126, and
internal/tui/stt_model_picker.go line 229, preserving each existing message’s
context.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/tui/dictation.go` at line 610: Active-recording
status must instruct users to press Ctrl+Space to stop.
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@coderabbitai Please re-review the latest commit ed38f57. The voice help and active status now describe both hold/release and press-to-toggle terminal behavior. If everything looks good, please approve.

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  internal/tui/dictation_voice.go \
  internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go \
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  internal/tui/stt_key_prompt.go \
  internal/tui/stt_model_picker.go

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echo '== Voice capture call sites and test cases =='
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  '(voiceCaptureUsage|voiceCapture|Ctrl\+Space|KeySpace|KeyCtrl|KeyRelease|dictation)' \
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  internal/tui/dictation_voice.go \
  internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go \
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@anandh8x I found one active-status mismatch, so I cannot approve this commit yet.

internal/tui/dictation.go Line 483 and Line 485 still display:

  • release Space to stop
  • press Space to stop

internal/tui/view.go displays this status chip while dictation is active. The active UI therefore instructs users to use plain Space, but voice capture requires Ctrl+Space.

Please update model.dictationStatusChip() to use the Ctrl+Space instructions for both terminal tiers. Add a regression test for the active status chip, because the current tests validate model.voiceModeIndicator() only.

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@coderabbitai Please re-review latest commit 72440a8. The remaining active recording chip now uses the shared tier-aware Ctrl+Space status, with a dedicated regression test. If everything is resolved, please approve.

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  '(func \(model \*?Model\) dictationStatusChip|func \(model \*?Model\) voiceModeIndicator|voiceCaptureStatus|voiceCaptureUsage|TestDictationStatusChip)' \
  internal/tui

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echo '== Voice-capture press and release call paths =='
rg -n -C 8 --glob '*.go' \
  '(voiceCapture.*(Press|Release|Status)|KeyCtrl|KeySpace|KeyRelease)' \
  internal/tui/model.go internal/tui/dictation_voice.go internal/tui/dictation_voice_test.go

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@anandh8x The focused re-review is complete.

model.dictationStatusChip() now uses voiceCaptureStatus(). The active recording chip now shows the correct tier-specific Ctrl+Space instruction.

TestDictationStatusChipUsesVoiceCaptureShortcut verifies both cases:

  • release Ctrl+Space to stop for terminals with key-release events.
  • press Ctrl+Space to stop for the toggle fallback.

I found no remaining issue in the reviewed change. Approved. 🐇

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/voice mode collides with typing: Space is swallowed, so typed prompts run together and pick up stray transcriptions

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