STT previously had no configuration surface outside hand-editing
config.yaml — no category in the hermes tools picker, no provider
matrix in the GUI capabilities tab, no status line in hermes setup.
- TOOL_CATEGORIES['stt']: 7 provider rows (Local Whisper, Nous
Subscription managed, OpenAI, Groq, xAI, ElevenLabs Scribe,
DeepInfra) with key prompts, badges, and post-setup hooks
- stt_provider marker wired through _write_provider_config,
_configure_provider, _reconfigure_provider, and
_is_provider_active — GUI and CLI share one write path
(apply_provider_selection)
- STT model picker (_configure_stt_model + STT_MODEL_CATALOG) runs
after provider pick: local sizes, Groq whisper family, OpenAI
whisper-1/gpt-4o-*/gpt-transcribe, ElevenLabs scribe (model_id key)
- faster_whisper post-setup hook auto-installs the local backend;
registered in _POST_SETUP_READY
- stt is CONFIG-ONLY (_CONFIG_ONLY_TOOLSETS): it ships no tool
schemas, so it is excluded from the per-platform enable checklist;
the GUI toolset toggle writes stt.enabled instead of
platform_toolsets
- hermes setup shows a Speech-to-Text status line per provider
- Mistral row omitted (mistralai PyPI quarantine), mirroring the
dashboard stt.provider options
Tests: tests/hermes_cli/test_stt_picker.py (20 cases) incl. invariant
checks against agent.transcription_registry builtins and the runtime
OPENAI_MODELS/GROQ_MODELS sets.
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