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Local speech-to-text crashes and robustness on Apple Silicon

Cluster 28622 · gateway. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #73510 on 28 Jul 2026. Check it covers your case.

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The members center on local speech-to-text (STT) problems, including a reported Python crash from gateway voice notes on Apple Silicon/Rosetta and a pull request aimed at avoiding that crash. Another pull request takes a broader approach to STT provider robustness, covering device config, CUDA fallbacks, audio container normalization, and lazy-install recovery.

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  • #73510 fix(stt): provider robustness — device config, CUDA fallbacks, container normalization (SILK/m4a), lazy-install recovery

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], contributors/emails/[redacted:email], gateway/run.py, tests/gateway/test_stt_config.py, tests/tools/test_managed_media_gateways.py, tests/tools/test_transcription_command_providers.py, tests/tools/test_transcription_plugin_dispatch.py, tests/tools/test_transcription_tools.py, tests/tools/test_tts_pythonpath_fallback.py, tests/tools/test_voice_mode.py, tools/lazy_deps.py, tools/transcription_tools.py, tools/tts_tool.py, tools/voice_mode.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1

  • #28624 fix: avoid local STT crash on Apple Silicon · merged via another change → c0c5dac, #73510
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#28622Gateway voice notes crash Python on Apple Silicon/Rosetta local STT
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Merged PRs
#73510
Closed issues
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1 PR closed without merging
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28 Jul 2026

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