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Add or modify text-to-speech providers in assistant-api with transport-aware behavior (WS/SSE/SDK/HTTP), correct packet lifecycle, and UI/provider wiring.

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TTS Integration Skill

Mission

Integrate TTS providers with correct streaming/flush/interruption semantics and stable tts_latency_ms metrics.

Inputs expected from user

  1. Transport model: bidirectional WebSocket, SSE/chunked HTTP, SDK callback, or request-response flush.
  2. Voice/model parameter requirements.
  3. Output audio format from provider.

If user does not answer:

  • Select nearest baseline transport and preserve existing packet semantics.
  • Keep internal output format compatibility with existing streamer path.

Hard boundaries

In scope:

  • api/assistant-api/internal/transformer/<provider>/tts.go (+ provider option/normalizer helpers)
  • api/assistant-api/internal/transformer/transformer.go (factory case)
  • optional contract updates: api/assistant-api/internal/type/tts_transformer.go, packet.go
  • provider config JSON + UI component files for TTS

Out of scope:

  • STT-only logic changes unrelated to shared provider setup
  • telephony transport internals
  • EOS/VAD internals

Transport mapping

  • WS streaming baseline: deepgram, rime, sarvam
  • SSE/chunked baseline: minimax
  • SDK/API callback baseline: azure, google
  • HTTP flush baseline: aws, resembleai

Packet contract

Input packets:

  • LLMResponseDeltaPacket
  • LLMResponseDonePacket
  • InterruptionPacket

Required outputs:

  • TextToSpeechAudioPacket
  • TextToSpeechEndPacket
  • ConversationEventPacket{Name:"tts", ...}
  • MessageMetricPacket{Name:"tts_latency_ms"} once per utterance

Implementation workflow

  1. Pick transport baseline and clone lifecycle shape.
  2. Implement provider under transformer/<provider>/.
  3. Add factory registration in transformer.go.
  4. Wire UI metadata (voices, languages, text-to-speech-models) and config form.
  5. Verify interruption behavior clears output state without deadlocks.
  6. Add provider tests (init, streaming, completion, interruption, metric-on-first-audio).

Validation commands

  • go test ./api/assistant-api/internal/transformer/... -run TestTTS
  • go test ./api/assistant-api/internal/transformer/<provider>/...
  • cd ui && yarn test providers
  • ./.claude/skills/tts-integration/scripts/validate.sh --check-diff --provider <provider>