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50 changes: 50 additions & 0 deletions apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsRouteScreen.tsx
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
squashAtomCommandFailure,
} from "@t3tools/client-runtime/state/runtime";
import { AndroidScreenHeader } from "../../components/AndroidScreenHeader";
import { ControlPillMenu } from "../../components/ControlPill";
import { AppText as Text, AppTextInput as TextInput } from "../../components/AppText";
import { supportsAgentAwarenessPush } from "../agent-awareness/capabilities";
import { setLiveActivityUpdatesEnabled } from "../agent-awareness/liveActivityPreferences";
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -544,13 +545,62 @@ function ConfiguredSettingsRouteScreen() {
function GeneralSettingsSection() {
return (
<SettingsSection title="General">
{Platform.OS === "ios" && Number.parseInt(Platform.Version, 10) >= 26 ? (
<VoiceInputLanguageRow />
) : null}
<SettingsRow icon="folder" label="Project Grouping" target="SettingsProjectGrouping" />
<AutoSettleSettingsRows />
<SettingsRow icon="chart.bar.xaxis" label="Usage" target="SettingsUsage" />
</SettingsSection>
);
}

const VOICE_INPUT_LANGUAGES = [
{ id: "system", title: "System" },
{ id: "yue-CN", title: "Cantonese" },
{ id: "zh-CN", title: "Chinese (Simplified)" },
{ id: "zh-TW", title: "Chinese (Traditional)" },
{ id: "en-US", title: "English" },
{ id: "fr-FR", title: "French" },
{ id: "de-DE", title: "German" },
{ id: "it-IT", title: "Italian" },
{ id: "ja-JP", title: "Japanese" },
{ id: "ko-KR", title: "Korean" },
{ id: "pt-BR", title: "Portuguese" },
{ id: "es-ES", title: "Spanish" },
];

function VoiceInputLanguageRow() {
const preferences = useAtomValue(mobilePreferencesAtom);
const savePreferences = useAtomSet(updateMobilePreferencesAtom);
if (!AsyncResult.isSuccess(preferences)) return null;
const locale = preferences.value.voiceInputLocale ?? "system";

return (
<ControlPillMenu
accessible
accessibilityRole="button"
accessibilityLabel="Voice Input Language"
title="Voice Input Language"
actions={VOICE_INPUT_LANGUAGES.map((language) => ({
...language,
state: language.id === locale ? "on" : "off",
}))}
onPressAction={({ nativeEvent }) =>
savePreferences({
voiceInputLocale: nativeEvent.event === "system" ? null : nativeEvent.event,
})
}
>
<SettingsRow
icon="mic"
label="Voice Input Language"
value={VOICE_INPUT_LANGUAGES.find((language) => language.id === locale)?.title}
/>
</ControlPillMenu>
);
}

const AUTO_SETTLE_DEFAULT_DAYS = DEFAULT_SERVER_SETTINGS.sidebarAutoSettleAfterDays ?? 3;

/**
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17 changes: 13 additions & 4 deletions apps/mobile/src/features/voice-input/useVoiceInputController.ts
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
import { useAtomValue } from "@effect/atom-react";
import { AsyncResult } from "effect/unstable/reactivity";
import {
RecordingPresets,
requestRecordingPermissionsAsync,
Expand All @@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ import { useSharedValue } from "react-native-reanimated";

import type { ComposerEditorSelection } from "../../components/ComposerEditor";
import { getLocalVoiceTranscriber } from "../../native/voiceTranscription";
import { mobilePreferencesAtom } from "../../state/preferences";
import { getNativeShowcaseScene } from "../showcase/nativeShowcaseScene";
import {
VoiceInputController,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -69,6 +72,10 @@ export function useVoiceInputController(input: {
readonly onChangeDraftMessage: (value: string) => void;
readonly onChangeSelection: (selection: ComposerEditorSelection) => void;
}) {
const preferences = useAtomValue(mobilePreferencesAtom);
const locale = AsyncResult.isSuccess(preferences)
? (preferences.value.voiceInputLocale ?? undefined)
: undefined;
const [state, setState] = useState<VoiceInputState>(INITIAL_STATE);
const [elapsedSeconds, setElapsedSeconds] = useState(0);
const elapsedSecondsRef = useRef(0);
Expand All @@ -84,8 +91,8 @@ export function useVoiceInputController(input: {
previousDraftRef.current = { ownerKey: input.ownerKey, text: input.draftMessage };
revisionRef.current += 1;
}
const latestInputRef = useRef(input);
latestInputRef.current = input;
const latestInputRef = useRef({ ...input, locale });
latestInputRef.current = { ...input, locale };

const handleRecorderStatus = useCallback((status: RecordingStatus) => {
controllerRef.current?.handleRecorderStatus({
Expand All @@ -100,7 +107,7 @@ export function useVoiceInputController(input: {
if (!controllerRef.current) {
controllerRef.current = new VoiceInputController({
recorder,
getTranscriber: getLocalVoiceTranscriber,
getTranscriber: () => getLocalVoiceTranscriber(latestInputRef.current.locale),
requestPermission: async () => {
const permission = await requestRecordingPermissionsAsync();
return { granted: permission.granted, canAskAgain: permission.canAskAgain };
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -206,7 +213,9 @@ export function useVoiceInputController(input: {
return {
// Store screenshots show the dictation button even on simulators, whose
// on-device transcription is unavailable.
isAvailable: getLocalVoiceTranscriber() !== null || getNativeShowcaseScene() !== null,
isAvailable:
AsyncResult.isSuccess(preferences) &&

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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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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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(getLocalVoiceTranscriber(locale) !== null || getNativeShowcaseScene() !== null),
state,
audioLevels,
elapsedSeconds,
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21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -56,6 +56,27 @@ afterEach(() => {
});

describe("getLocalVoiceTranscriber", () => {
it("transcribes in French when explicitly selected on an English device", async () => {
vi.spyOn(Intl.DateTimeFormat.prototype, "resolvedOptions").mockReturnValue({
...Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions(),
locale: "en-US",
});
mocks.prepare.mockResolvedValue("fr-FR");
mocks.transcribe.mockResolvedValue({
duration: 1,
segments: [{ text: "Bonjour.", startSecond: 0, endSecond: 1 }],
});
const options = { signal: new AbortController().signal };
const prepared = await getLocalVoiceTranscriber("fr-FR")!.prepare(options);

await expect(prepared.transcribe("file:///voice.m4a", options)).resolves.toBe("Bonjour.");
expect(mocks.prepare).toHaveBeenCalledWith("fr-FR");
expect(mocks.transcribe).toHaveBeenCalledWith(audio, "fr-FR");

await getLocalVoiceTranscriber()!.prepare(options);
expect(mocks.prepare).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith("en-US");
});

it("keeps the selected language and Apple's resolved locale when the device language changes", async () => {
const resolvedOptions = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions();
const deviceLocale = vi
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ios.ts
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Expand Up @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ function getNativeErrorCode(error: unknown): string | undefined {
return typeof error.code === "string" ? error.code : undefined;
}

export function getLocalVoiceTranscriber(): VoiceTranscriber | null {
const locale = getDeviceLocale();
export function getLocalVoiceTranscriber(locale = getDeviceLocale()): VoiceTranscriber | null {
if (!AppleTranscription.isAvailable(locale)) return null;
return { prepare: (options) => prepareVoiceTranscription(locale, options) };
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ async function prepareVoiceTranscription(
if (getNativeErrorCode(error) === "AppleTranscriptionUnsupportedLocale") {
throw new VoiceTranscriptionError(
"unsupported-locale",
"Voice transcription does not support this device language.",
"Voice transcription does not support this language.",
{ cause: error },
);
}
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion apps/mobile/src/native/voiceTranscription.ts
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import type { VoiceTranscriber } from "@t3tools/client-runtime/voice-input";

export function getLocalVoiceTranscriber(): VoiceTranscriber | null {
export function getLocalVoiceTranscriber(_locale?: string): VoiceTranscriber | null {
return null;
}
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions apps/mobile/src/persistence/mobile-preferences.ts
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const PREFERENCES_FALLBACK_KEY = "t3code.preferences.fallback";

export interface Preferences {
readonly liveActivitiesEnabled?: boolean;
readonly voiceInputLocale?: string | null;
readonly themeId?: MobileThemeId;
readonly lightThemeId?: MobileThemeId;
readonly darkThemeId?: MobileThemeId;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ export class MobilePreferencesStore extends Context.Service<
function sanitizePreferences(parsed: Preferences): Preferences {
const preferences: {
liveActivitiesEnabled?: boolean;
voiceInputLocale?: string | null;
themeId?: MobileThemeId;
lightThemeId?: MobileThemeId;
darkThemeId?: MobileThemeId;
Expand All @@ -108,6 +110,9 @@ function sanitizePreferences(parsed: Preferences): Preferences {
if (typeof parsed.liveActivitiesEnabled === "boolean") {
preferences.liveActivitiesEnabled = parsed.liveActivitiesEnabled;
}
if (typeof parsed.voiceInputLocale === "string" || parsed.voiceInputLocale === null) {
preferences.voiceInputLocale = parsed.voiceInputLocale;
}
if (
typeof parsed.themeId === "string" &&
(MOBILE_THEME_IDS as readonly string[]).includes(parsed.themeId)
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions docs/user/composer.md
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Expand Up @@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ On supported iPhones with iOS 26 or later, use the composer's microphone to reco
then confirm to transcribe. Text is inserted where your selection was when
recording started, ready for you to review and edit before sending.

Choose **Settings → General → Voice Input Language** to dictate in a different
language. **System** follows your device's locale.

The first use may download Apple's speech model and needs a network connection.
Later transcription works offline for that language. Recordings can be up to five
minutes long. Canceling, leaving the screen, or an audio interruption discards the
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