Telegram voice-note transcription on mars, no cloud: faster-whisper 1.2.1
(ctranslate2 CPU) installed into the SAME kittentts side-venv via
stt-requirements.txt (appended by the provisioning unit; input stamp
extended). Second auto-patchelf pass RPATHs the newly installed
ctranslate2/av binaries. Container env gains
PYTHONPATH=/opt/data/kittentts-venv/... so hermes's local-stt provider
imports faster-whisper in-process (the image venv is read-only for uid
986, so the built-in lazy installer cannot work there).
Validated live: Telegram voice note transcribed on CPU (i5-4460,
lang=en, text exact) with the same pins.
tts.provider: kittentts, voice Luna, mini-0.8 model (80M params) per
darman. CPU-only onnxruntime inference — no GPU on mars, validated ~1x
realtime on a weaker dev box. Upstream's misaki[en]+spacy declaration is
deliberately not honored (pulls torch→CUDA, 5.6 GB); a .pth-registered
stub satisfies the dead misaki import, failing loudly if it is ever
actually used. HF model cache pre-seeded from hash-pinned store paths so
HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 runs with zero boot-time network. Provisioner shaped by
the Mnemosyne review: uv venv --clear, root never executes python from
the venv, ownership to the container uid before anything imports, stamp
checked against venv+model files.
luna