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audio capture read_available stall fixes and fallbacks

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These items address a bug where polling read_available stalls indefinitely on certain audio backends (notably DirectSound on Windows), causing wake-word detection and voice capture to hang. Fixes introduce fallback to blocking reads when the poll makes no progress.

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#127197 fix(wake): recover transient capture read failures and fall back to blocking reads when read_available stalls

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files: tests/tools/test_wake_word.py, tests/tools/test_wake_word_stream_recovery.py, tools/wake_word.py

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#118560 fix(voice): fall back to blocking reads when read_available never advances · done elsewhere → d79de94, #127197

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Closed#118552[Bug]: Wake-word never fires on Windows — `_Capture.read()`'s `read_available` poll spins forever on DirectSound devices (regression from #117096 fix)

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Merged PRs: #127197
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