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Summary

  • Deduplicate selection guidance: remove 4 redundant "Pick:" lines and the "Selection by Priority" table — both fully covered by the Decision Flow tree
  • Move Decision Flow to top of doc (primacy effect — most actionable content first)
  • Compress NVIDIA Riva table: remove redundant "Role" column, shorten headers
  • Preserve Bark expressiveness note (laughter/music) in table cell

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Classification: Reference corpus (model selection reference). At 126 lines, well under the 300-line split threshold — tightening, not splitting.

What was removed (and why safe):

  • 4 "Pick:" lines after each model table — every recommendation exists in the Decision Flow tree
  • "Selection by Priority" table (6 rows × 4 cols) — every cell's recommendation is in the Decision Flow tree
  • "Role" column from Riva table — redundant with Component column (ASR=Speech-to-text, TTS=Text-to-speech)

Zero knowledge loss: All 28 models, all specs, all cross-references, GPU planning, decision paths, and the Bark expressiveness note retained.

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  • Risk: Low (docs/agent prompts only)
  • Level: self-assessed
  • Markdown lint: 0 errors

Closes #14044


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  • Documentation
    • Introduced a decision framework for selecting between text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and conversational voice models based on cloning, latency, offline needs, accuracy, cost, and deployment requirements.
    • Reorganized voice model comparison tables for improved clarity and navigation.
    • Enhanced voice synthesis capability descriptions.

…ion guidance

Remove 4 Pick: lines and Selection by Priority table, both fully
redundant with the Decision Flow tree. Move Decision Flow to top
(primacy effect). Compress Riva table (remove redundant Role column,
shorten headers). Preserve Bark expressiveness note in table.

Zero knowledge loss: all 28 models, all specs, all cross-references,
GPU planning, and decision paths retained.
@alex-solovyev alex-solovyev added the origin:interactive Auto-created from TODO.md tag label Mar 30, 2026
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Documentation restructuring of the Voice AI Models agent guide. A new Decision Flow section was added to route users to specific models based on use case (TTS, STT, or conversational S2S), while prior recommendation guidance was consolidated and the NVIDIA Riva Composable Pipelines section was simplified.

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Voice AI Models Documentation
.agents/tools/voice/voice-ai-models.md
Added Decision Flow routing section for TTS/STT/conversational S2S selection; removed prior "Pick:" recommendation sentences; simplified NVIDIA Riva Composable Pipelines table structure and condensed pipeline notes; clarified Bark (Suno) expressive capabilities (laughter/music).

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Linked Issues check ❓ Inconclusive The PR meets the core requirement from #14044 for reference corpora: zero content loss across all 28 models, specs, decision paths, and Bark expressiveness note retained; however, the approach compresses content rather than extracting into chapter files as the issue guidance recommends. Confirm whether content compression aligns with the 'reference corpora' strategy in #14044, which explicitly recommends chapter extraction and slim index (not inline compression) to preserve institutional knowledge structure.
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This pull request reorganizes the voice-ai-models.md documentation by moving the 'Decision Flow' section to the top for better visibility and removing several 'Pick' summary lines to reduce redundancy. While the reorganization improves the flow, feedback highlights that removing the summary for Local STT results in the loss of specific technical details—such as language support for Parakeet models and OS dependencies for Apple Speech—that are not currently reflected in the remaining tables.

| NVIDIA Parakeet V3 | 0.6B | 9.6 | Fastest | 2GB |
| Apple Speech | Built-in | 9.0 | Fast | On-device |

Pick: Large v3 Turbo → best balance. Parakeet V3 → multilingual speed (25 langs). Parakeet V2 → English-only. Apple Speech → zero-setup macOS 26+.
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Removing this line causes a loss of important information about language support for Parakeet V2 (English-only) and Parakeet V3 (multilingual), as well as the OS dependency for Apple Speech. This information is not present in the local STT table above or in the new Decision Flow. To adhere to the goal of 'Zero knowledge loss' and the project's practice of maintaining detailed explanations for key technical components, please consider adding this information to the local STT table before removing this summary.

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  1. Restore detailed explanations for key concepts and technical details to ensure clarity and prevent knowledge loss.

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63-63: Line 63: Replace ambiguous “stale” with a dated status note.

stale without a date/source is hard to operationalize. Prefer a dated qualifier (e.g., “VRAM estimate, last verified 2026-03”) or move it to a short “Notes” phrase.

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-| Bark (Suno) | 1.0B | MIT | 13+ | Yes (prompt) | 6GB (stale, expressive: laughter/music) |
+| Bark (Suno) | 1.0B | MIT | 13+ | Yes (prompt) | ~6GB (estimate; last verified 2026-03, expressive: laughter/music) |
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In @.agents/tools/voice/voice-ai-models.md at line 63, Update the table row for
"Bark (Suno)" to remove the ambiguous "stale" qualifier and replace it with a
dated status note or move it to a Notes column; for example change "6GB (stale,
expressive: laughter/music)" to "6GB (VRAM estimate, last verified 2026-03;
expressive: laughter/music)" or relocate "VRAM estimate, last verified 2026-03"
into a Notes field—edit the line containing "Bark (Suno)" in voice-ai-models.md
accordingly.
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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In @.agents/tools/voice/voice-ai-models.md:
- Around line 110-120: The Pipeline table and the inline "Pipeline: `Audio ->
[Parakeet ASR] -> [Any LLM] -> [Magpie TTS] -> Audio`" / cascaded S2S note
should not be compressed in-place; instead extract this section into separate
chapter files for the reference-corpus strategy and replace it here with a slim
index entry linking to those new files. Concretely, create new chapter docs
(e.g., voice-models-parakeet.md, voice-pipeline-s2s.md) containing the full
table and pipeline details, update this file's block (the table and the
Pipeline/Cascaded S2S lines) to a short index summary pointing to those
chapters, and ensure filenames/classes referenced in nav or TOC reflect the new
chapter names so links resolve.

---

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In @.agents/tools/voice/voice-ai-models.md:
- Line 63: Update the table row for "Bark (Suno)" to remove the ambiguous
"stale" qualifier and replace it with a dated status note or move it to a Notes
column; for example change "6GB (stale, expressive: laughter/music)" to "6GB
(VRAM estimate, last verified 2026-03; expressive: laughter/music)" or relocate
"VRAM estimate, last verified 2026-03" into a Notes field—edit the line
containing "Bark (Suno)" in voice-ai-models.md accordingly.
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| Component | Model | Languages | NIM |
|-----------|-------|-----------|-----|
| ASR | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 | English | HF (research) |
| ASR | Parakeet CTC 1.1B | English | Yes |
| ASR | Parakeet RNNT 1.1B | 25 | Yes |
| TTS | Magpie Multilingual | 17+ | Yes |
| TTS | Magpie Zero-Shot | English+ | API |
| Enhancement | StudioVoice | Any | Yes |
| Translation | Riva Translate | 36 | Yes |

Pipeline: `Audio -> [Parakeet ASR] -> [Any LLM] -> [Magpie TTS] -> Audio`. See `cloud-voice-agents.md`. Cascaded S2S (VAD+STT+LLM+TTS): see `speech-to-speech.md`.
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major

Line 110–120: This conflicts with the reference-corpus strategy from the linked issue.

The section is compressed in-place, but the issue objective for reference corpora asks for extraction into chapter files plus a slim index rather than content compression. Please align this section (and likely the doc structure) to that strategy before merge.

Proposed structural direction
-## NVIDIA Riva Composable Pipelines
-| Component | Model | Languages | NIM |
-...
-Pipeline: `Audio -> [Parakeet ASR] -> [Any LLM] -> [Magpie TTS] -> Audio`. See `cloud-voice-agents.md`. Cascaded S2S (VAD+STT+LLM+TTS): see `speech-to-speech.md`.
+## NVIDIA Riva Composable Pipelines
+High-level index only. Detailed matrix moved to `tools/voice/voice-ai-models-riva.md`.
+Pipeline overview: `Audio -> [Parakeet ASR] -> [Any LLM] -> [Magpie TTS] -> Audio`.
+See:
+- `tools/voice/voice-ai-models-riva.md` (full component matrix)
+- `tools/voice/cloud-voice-agents.md`
+- `tools/voice/speech-to-speech.md`
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In @.agents/tools/voice/voice-ai-models.md around lines 110 - 120, The Pipeline
table and the inline "Pipeline: `Audio -> [Parakeet ASR] -> [Any LLM] -> [Magpie
TTS] -> Audio`" / cascaded S2S note should not be compressed in-place; instead
extract this section into separate chapter files for the reference-corpus
strategy and replace it here with a slim index entry linking to those new files.
Concretely, create new chapter docs (e.g., voice-models-parakeet.md,
voice-pipeline-s2s.md) containing the full table and pipeline details, update
this file's block (the table and the Pipeline/Cascaded S2S lines) to a short
index summary pointing to those chapters, and ensure filenames/classes
referenced in nav or TOC reflect the new chapter names so links resolve.

…T table

Address Gemini review: the removed Pick line had details (Parakeet V3
25 langs, Parakeet V2 English-only, Apple Speech macOS 26+) not present
in the table. Add these as parenthetical notes in the VRAM column.
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@alex-solovyev alex-solovyev dismissed coderabbitai[bot]’s stale review March 30, 2026 10:45

Nitpick about 'stale' wording: refers to unmaintained project status, not VRAM estimate staleness. Chapter file split: file is 126 lines, well under 300-line split threshold. Gemini's valid concern about lost Parakeet/Apple Speech details addressed in follow-up commit.

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