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docs/voice-pipeline.md

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 Run `npm run voice-doctor`, then follow [voice acceptance](voice-acceptance.md).
 The daemon metrics cover wake accepts/rejects, feedback drops, utterances, and
 replies. Raw audio is not persisted by default.
+
+## Release voice readiness
+
+ASR and TTS initialize independently in the same QVAC runtime. Voice models do
+not require the chat model to load first. The runtime status includes separate
+`asr`, `tts`, `capture`, and `wake` flags plus per-component errors. Without a
+wake bridge, use Hold Talk (mouse, Space, or Enter) in the GNOME overlay.
+
+The Control Center's wake command and spoken-reply setting are read from
+`~/.config/jarvis/config.json` on daemon startup. Restart `jarvisd.service` after
+changing them. `JARVIS_WAKE_COMMAND` overrides the saved command. A wake command
+must consume 16 kHz mono signed PCM and emit detected phrases on stdout; simply
+setting a phrase does not install a wake detector.
+
+QVAC TTS numeric arrays contain signed 16-bit samples, not bytes. Supertonic
+plays at 44.1 kHz. Captured utterances use the non-streaming transcription API
+because local VAD already supplies utterance boundaries.
+
+CI pins the native engines, verifies their registration inside the staged
+release, and synthesizes a sentence then transcribes it with Whisper. Voice
+models download into a temporary CI cache. Both the archive and Debian package
+include the validated Bare runtime and native dependencies. The release gate
+requires model download access; it fails rather than publishing an untested
+voice bundle. Microphone routing and physical speaker output still require a
+local PipeWire session and working hardware.
+
+Run the model roundtrip locally with:
+
+```sh
+bash packaging/bare-launch.sh packaging/bare-run.js packaging/voice-model-smoke.js
+```
+
+PipeWire capture/playback use `--properties node.name=Jarvis` and `-` for
+standard I/O; `pw-cat` does not accept `--name`. A local capture check is
+`bash packaging/bare-launch.sh packaging/bare-run.js packaging/pipewire-smoke.js`.
+Add `--play` to the model roundtrip to exercise speaker playback as well.