fix(mobile): allow choosing the voice input language

[baptisteArno]

What Changed

Add Voice Input Language at the top of Settings → General on iOS 26+. The choice uses the existing mobile preferences store and applies to the next recording. System preserves the current device-locale behavior.

Why

Voice input always used the device locale, so someone speaking French on an English-configured iPhone could get an English transcription. Users can now choose the language they speak without changing their device settings.

UI Changes

Before	After (French selected)	Language menu

choose-french.mp4

Validation

• 35 focused tests pass across the native transcriber, voice-input controller, and preferences.
• Mobile typecheck and formatting checks pass; targeted lint reports only existing warnings.
• iOS 26.5 simulator: language menu, French selection, persistence after relaunch, and resetting to System verified.
• Native iOS build passes. Speech recognition itself was not verified on a physical iPhone.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

Implemented with GPT-6 via Codex.

Note

Add selectable voice input language to mobile settings on iOS 26+

• Adds a voice-input language row to General Settings on iOS 26 and later, backed by a new nullable voiceInputLocale field in mobile preferences (System stores null; specific locales store their identifier)
• Passes the selected locale through useVoiceInputController and getLocalVoiceTranscriber so transcription uses it for availability checks and preparation; omitted or null locale falls back to the device default
• Adds tests for explicit French locale on an English device and for the omitted-locale fallback path
• Behavioral Change: useVoiceInputController now reports voice input as unavailable until preferences load successfully, and unsupported-locale error text refers to the requested language rather than the device language

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a Voice Input Language setting on iOS 26 and later.
  • Choose from 12 languages or System to follow the device locale.
  • Selected language preferences are saved and applied to voice transcription.
  • Voice input now checks availability for the selected language.

• Documentation

  • Updated iPhone voice input guidance with instructions for changing the transcription language.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This adds a selectable voice-input language through settings, persistence, and the production transcription controller, with a small but cross-cutting runtime change. The default remains device locale, but the feature spans shared areas maintained by others and lacks visible end-to-end wiring coverage in the diff.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The mobile app adds an iOS 26+ setting for voice input language, persists the selection, and passes it to local transcription. System selection continues to use the device locale. Tests cover explicit French selection and device-locale fallback.

Changes

Voice input language selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Settings and preference persistence apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/persistence/mobile-preferences.ts, docs/user/composer.md	The General settings section shows language choices on iOS 26+. The selected locale is stored as voiceInputLocale, and the user documentation describes the setting.
Locale-aware transcription apps/mobile/src/features/voice-input/useVoiceInputController.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.test.ts	The controller passes the configured locale to local transcription. The iOS implementation supports explicit locales and defaults to the device locale. Tests cover French selection and English-device fallback.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5ec36

This adds selectable voice transcription languages, but a mobile-preference load failure can make System voice input unavailable even when device-locale transcription is supported. Resolve the availability gate before merge.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required What Changed, Why, UI Changes, and Checklist sections. It explains the behavior, includes UI screenshots and an interaction video, and documents validation result…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: allowing users to choose the mobile voice input language.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@apps/mobile/src/features/voice-input/useVoiceInputController.ts`:
- Line 217: Update the availability logic in useVoiceInputController so a failed
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undefined locale as the System/device-locale fallback and base availability on
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• apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsRouteScreen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/features/voice-input/useVoiceInputController.ts
• apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.test.ts
• apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.ts
• apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ts
• apps/mobile/src/persistence/mobile-preferences.ts
• docs/user/composer.md

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not disable System transcription when preference loading fails.

When mobilePreferencesAtom is in a failure state, locale is already undefined, which represents the System/device-locale fallback. AsyncResult.isSuccess(preferences) still makes isAvailable false, so callers cannot expose voice input even when getLocalVoiceTranscriber(undefined) is available. Base availability on the transcriber or showcase capability, or distinguish preference failure from a state that must block recording.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@apps/mobile/src/features/voice-input/useVoiceInputController.ts` at line 217,
Update the availability logic in useVoiceInputController so a failed
mobilePreferencesAtom load does not force isAvailable to false; preserve the
undefined locale as the System/device-locale fallback and base availability on
the resolved transcriber or showcase capability instead of
AsyncResult.isSuccess(preferences).

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli.