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Summary

When recording a conversation through Mac speakers, system audio captures the reply directly and the microphone adds a delayed second copy. Add an opt-in Cancel speaker echo setting in the HUD's device settings and the editor's Record panel. The control appears while the microphone is enabled and keeps its saved choice when the microphone is off. It defaults to off while device and route-change coverage remains limited; opt-in is deliberate for this first version.

The microphone uses Chromium's system-wide echo canceller (echoCancellation: { exact: "all" }), already available in the pinned Electron 41.2.1. Native screen and system-audio capture stay in place; the existing mixer receives processed mono PCM and applies the existing microphone gain. No DSP dependency is added.

AudioData's host capture timestamps keep microphone audio aligned with native capture. Pause/resume clips delayed audio by capture time, and stop drains audio captured before the take ended. IPC checks the recording and sender, validates bounded packets, and waits for each pipe write. Microphone-only loss warns and keeps screen/system recording running; recorder-write failures stop the take. Timestamp gaps warn once per take. If system-wide AEC is unavailable at startup, a localized error explains how to disable the option and retry. Errors and warnings are translated in all 15 locales.

before (current main) video:

openscreen-before-github.mp4

after (this PR) video:

openscreen-after-github.mp4

Related issue

Fixes #1264.

Type of change

  • Feature

Release impact

  • Minor

Desktop impact

  • macOS

Testing

  • Earlier guided MacBook Air test (15 October): about 46 dB less speaker leakage, with the user's spoken interruption recovered during overlap. A separate near-only comparison changed by −0.28 dB. These are measurements from this setup, not guarantees for every device.
  • Concurrent Python microphone check: no input errors and no measured input-level change beyond 0.03 dB. The full Python CLI conversation/VAD path was not tested.
  • Integrated native take: pause/resume/stop, no missing microphone time reported, and direct system audio within 0.002 dB of the baseline.
  • Before/after Hugging Face browser conversations using the MacBook’s built-in microphone and speakers are attached above.
  • Full app on the Mac: setting persistence, recording, pause/resume, restart/discard, save to editor, and native CLI MP4 export. The exported file decodes successfully.
  • 4,862 local unit tests passed; 1 skipped. Both TypeScript checks, locale and documentation checks, Vite build, and Swift release build passed. Lint passed with 26 existing warnings.
  • Full fork CI passed on the exact PR commit (dd9ad40b): all 11 applicable jobs, including 69 Swift tests with zero failures, both helper release builds, macOS/Linux compositor tests and the Windows compositor check. CI skips six FFmpeg-dependent cases that pass locally; its unit result is 4,856 passed / 7 skipped. The PR-title job is skipped for push events.

Fresh short Mac checks (20 October) covered AEC on/off, known speaker playback with verified nonzero microphone samples, pause/resume, microphone-track loss and two forced queue stalls. Mic loss kept recording running; repeated gaps produced one warning. All four saved files fully decoded. A separate generated-audio test filled the helper pipe and verified capture cleanup after the recorder’s 30-second timeout. These checks establish integration behavior, not new acoustic-quality measurements.

The stop-plus-EOF regression reproduced four unreadable MP4s before the fix. Afterward, all six native cases finalized and fully decoded, including ordinary stop and repeated stop with microphone transport on/off. The blocked-write cleanup test also failed before its fix and passed afterward.

The CoreMedia range-copy regression failed before adding interleaved sample-size metadata and passed afterward. Tests cover capture timestamps, microphone cleanup, persistence, and pause/stop clipping.

Checks run: npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit, npm run test, npm run lint, npm run i18n:check, npm run build-vite, swift test --package-path electron/native/screencapturekit, and swift build -c release --package-path electron/native/screencapturekit. Hardware tests used an M2 MacBook Air on macOS 27.0.1.

Remaining checks: Computer-use automation was unavailable, so the app checks used CDP and the CLI. Apple's system-picker UI, external audio devices, long recordings, and route changes remain unverified. Upstream PR CI awaits maintainer approval; the fork run above tests the same commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an optional macOS microphone echo-cancellation setting to reduce speaker audio captured by the microphone while preserving system audio.
    • The setting is available when the microphone is enabled, can’t be changed during recording, and is saved and restored with recording preferences.
    • Added localized labels, guidance, and recording status messages for echo cancellation and microphone issues.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved microphone handling to preserve audio through pauses and recording stops.

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds a default-off macOS echo-cancellation preference and a microphone capture path that forwards timestamped audio to native recording. The native helper validates and retimes microphone audio, then mixes it with the recording. Recording settings include the control and translations.

Changes: macOS echo-cancelled microphone recording

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persist and expose the preference
electron/app-settings.ts, electron/ipc/handlers.ts, src/components/ai-edition/v4/RecStage.tsx, src/components/launch/*, src/i18n/locales/*, related tests
The preference defaults to false and persists with recording settings. macOS recording settings expose the control when microphone capture is enabled. Locale files add its labels, hint, and recording messages.
Capture and forward microphone audio
src/lib/echoCancelledMicrophone.ts, src/lib/nativeMacRecording.ts, src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.ts, related tests
When enabled, the renderer requests mono microphone audio with system echo cancellation. It sends timestamped packets sequentially and manages startup, warnings, errors, and shutdown.
Authorize and transport packets
electron/electron-env.d.ts, electron/preload.ts, electron/ipc/handlers.ts
The preload API forwards microphone packets through IPC. The main process authorizes the initiating renderer, validates packet identity and contents, and writes valid packets to the native helper.
Decode, retime, and mix microphone audio
electron/native/screencapturekit/Sources/OpenScreenCaptureCore/*, electron/native/screencapturekit/Sources/OpenScreenScreenCaptureKitHelper/*, related tests
The native core decodes microphone packets, creates timestamped sample buffers, retimes audio around pause intervals, and mixes external microphone audio into the recording. Stop finalization waits for the external microphone tail.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Renderer
  participant ElectronMain
  participant PickerSession
  participant ScreenCaptureRecorder
  Renderer->>ElectronMain: writeNativeMacMicrophone(packet)
  ElectronMain->>PickerSession: write validated packet
  PickerSession->>ScreenCaptureRecorder: ingestMicrophone(packet)
  ScreenCaptureRecorder->>ScreenCaptureRecorder: retime and mix samples
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An unusually large microphone frame can end a recording early. This is a bounded risk to accept or fix before merging.

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Failed Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Issue #1264 requests speaker echo cancellation switched on by default for macOS recordings with system audio and microphone capture. The PR implements the cancellation path and UI, but the reviewed he… Set micEchoCancellationEnabled to true for new and missing preferences. Align the HUD, Record panel, IPC defaults, fixtures, and tests with default-on behavior.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding optional speaker echo cancellation for macOS.
Description check Passed The description is complete and aligned with the template. It includes the change summary, related issue, feature and release classifications, macOS impact, video links, detailed testing, limitations,…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1264. The capture bridge, native microphone mixing, timestamp alignment, pause and stop handling, IPC validation, settings controls, persistence, localization, error han…
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The description is complete and aligned with the template. It includes the change summary, related issue, feature and release classifications, macOS impact, video links, detailed testing, limitations, and CI results.

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The changes stay within issue #1264. The capture bridge, native microphone mixing, timestamp alignment, pause and stop handling, IPC validation, settings controls, persistence, localization, error handling, and tests support speaker echo cancellation during macOS recordings. No unrelated change is demonstrated by the reviewed evidence.

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Issue #1264 requests speaker echo cancellation switched on by default for macOS recordings with system audio and microphone capture. The PR implements the cancellation path and UI, but the reviewed head sets micEchoCancellationEnabled to false in electron/app-settings.ts and RecStage.tsx, and parses missing values as false. The IPC defaults also remain false according to the change summary. New and missing preferences therefore keep cancellation off.

Resolution

Set micEchoCancellationEnabled to true for new and missing preferences. Align the HUD, Record panel, IPC defaults, fixtures, and tests with default-on behavior.

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Review comments at @src/lib/echoCancelledMicrophone.ts:
- Around line 80-83: Update the AudioData processing path that calls
writeNativeMacMicrophone to split samples into packets of at most 4,800 frames.
Set each packet’s timestampUs to the rounded frame timestamp adjusted by that
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Reviewed the two remaining warnings as well:

  • Default-on: the bot correctly spotted a mismatch with macOS: cancel speaker echo when recording system audio and microphone #1264. We've settled on opt-in for this first PR, while device and route-change coverage is still limited. The PR summary now makes that deliberate choice clear. Enabling it by default can follow broader hardware testing.
  • Docstring coverage: I’m not adding boilerplate to hit the bot’s 80% quota. Its report uses the default review configuration; the repository's lint rules do not impose that threshold. The code already documents the contracts that need explanation: capture timestamps, PCM ownership, pause clipping, stop draining, and bounded writes.

The oversized-packet finding has a separate inline reply with the pinned Chromium source trace. No production code change was justified by these comments.

Also, the full native suite is now verified on a GitHub Mac runner: 69 Swift tests passed, zero failures, followed by the release build of both helpers. Native CI result. All 11 applicable jobs in the fork CI run passed, including the macOS/Linux compositor tests and Windows compositor check. The PR-title job is skipped on a push event. The upstream PR workflows still need maintainer approval.

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Thanks for this, and for the before/after recordings and the numbers. The core path looks right to me: keeping AudioData's capture timestamps, clipping pauses by capture time and draining the tail on stop is the careful way to do it, and the native path is untouched when the option is off.

A few things before we can merge:

  1. No hint line under the toggle. We don't put explanatory sentences under settings. Please drop the hudModalHint line in HudDeviceSettings.tsx (around L217). The label alone should carry it.
  2. Hide the toggle when the microphone is off. It does nothing then. In the HUD it currently follows showMicrophone (mic available), and in RecStage.tsx (L524) canRecordMicrophone(). Please gate both on the microphone being enabled.
  3. Localize the error messages. The strings thrown in echoCancelledMicrophone.ts (L25, 45, 72, 78) reach users through toast.error(error.message). "Turn off Cancel speaker echo" in particular is UI copy. Please route them through t(...) with keys in all locales.
  4. Single-take helper exit during stop. In ScreenCaptureRecorder.swift (~L1373) stop now runs in an un-awaited Task so the loop keeps reading microphone packets. Good, but if stdin hits EOF while the stop is still draining or finalizing, the loop ends, await stopTask.value returns and the process exits mid-write. Before this change the awaited stop kept EOF from being read. Keeping a handle on the stop task and awaiting it after the loop would fix it.

Two design questions, not blockers:

  • A microphone error mid-take (e.g. a Bluetooth mic dropping) now stops the whole recording. Could it instead finish the take without the mic and warn, like the native path does?
  • If echoCancellation: "all" isn't granted, the take refuses to start. Would falling back to the native microphone with a warning be safer, given only macOS 27 has been tested?

Minor: with maxBufferSize: 50, an IPC stall over ~500 ms silently drops frames. A timestamp-gap warning in the renderer would make that visible.

On our side we'll run a pass on an M1 before merging: echo leakage, near-end voice preservation, system-audio level (ducking), A/V offset, drift over a 30-minute take, CPU with the option on vs off, pause/restart/cancel, device and output route changes mid-take, and both capture paths (Apple's picker and the in-app one).

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src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx: 1

1385-1385: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Memoize the echoCancellation prop to keep the HudDeviceSettings memo boundary.

HudDeviceSettings is wrapped in memo. The comment at Line 1144 requires stable prop identity so the panel does not re-render on every parent render, including the elapsed-time updates during a recording. The other callbacks passed to the panel use useCallback. This change passes a new object literal and a new inline onChange arrow on every render. As a result, the memo boundary never holds while the panel is open and the microphone is on, and the panel re-renders whenever LaunchWindow renders.

Build the prop with useMemo and a useCallback handler.

♻️ Proposed refactor

Define this near deviceSettingsLabels:

const handleEchoCancellationChange = useCallback(
	(enabled: boolean) => {
		if (controlsLocked) return;
		setMicEchoCancellationEnabled(enabled);
		persistRecordingPrefs({ micEchoCancellationEnabled: enabled });
	},
	[controlsLocked, persistRecordingPrefs, setMicEchoCancellationEnabled],
);
const isMacHud = window.electronAPI?.getPlatform?.() === "darwin";
const echoCancellationControl = useMemo(
	() =>
		isMacHud && microphoneEnabled
			? {
					enabled: micEchoCancellationEnabled,
					label: t("deviceSettings.echoCancellation"),
					onChange: handleEchoCancellationChange,
				}
			: undefined,
	[isMacHud, microphoneEnabled, micEchoCancellationEnabled, t, handleEchoCancellationChange],
);
-								echoCancellation={
-									window.electronAPI.getPlatform() === "darwin" && microphoneEnabled
-										? {
-												enabled: micEchoCancellationEnabled,
-												label: t("deviceSettings.echoCancellation"),
-												onChange: (enabled) => {
-													if (controlsLocked) return;
-													setMicEchoCancellationEnabled(enabled);
-													persistRecordingPrefs({ micEchoCancellationEnabled: enabled });
-												},
-											}
-										: undefined
-								}
+								echoCancellation={echoCancellationControl}
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Review comment at @src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx at line 1385:
Memoize the echoCancellation prop passed to HudDeviceSettings by extracting its
inline change handler into a useCallback and constructing the conditional
control object with useMemo. Preserve the controlsLocked guard, state update,
persistence, platform check, microphone condition, and translated label, then
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Review comments at @src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx:
- Line 1385: Memoize the echoCancellation prop passed to HudDeviceSettings by
extracting its inline change handler into a useCallback and constructing the
conditional control object with useMemo. Preserve the controlsLocked guard,
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cheers for the careful review!

I’ve pushed the requested changes: removed the HUD hint, hidden both controls while the microphone is off, localized the messages across all 15 locales, and retained/awaited the stop task at EOF.

I reproduced the EOF bug with the real helper: four cases produced unreadable MP4s before the fix. All six cases now finalize and fully decode

Microphone-only loss now warns and keeps screen/system recording running. Timestamp gaps warn once per take. Real Mac tests confirmed both behaviors. Review also caught and fixed a cleanup hang when a pipe write stalls.

I kept startup failure explicit when system-wide AEC is unavailable. Falling back automatically could restore the doubled voice the user enabled this option to remove. The translated error explains how to disable it and retry; the feature remains opt-in.

Your M1 pass will add useful coverage. These short M2 checks don’t establish long-run drift, device/route changes, physical playback level or Apple’s picker behavior

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Quick update on the M2 checks I mentioned above: I’ve since run a longer
pass on the same dd9ad40b build, using an M2 Air with macOS 27.0.1.

  • Long recording: the 30-minute take kept continuous microphone timestamps and all 361 flash/tone pairs. No large accumulating A/V desynchronization appeared, though variable video cadence limits a precise drift measurement.
  • Playback level: recorded system audio stayed effectively unchanged against a system-only baseline. The acoustic comparison also showed no substantial level drop. That used an unprocessed mic already open in the same browser, so it isn’t a universal no-ducking claim.
  • Speech over playback: speaker leakage fell about 34.5 dB RMS in the quiet phase against a simultaneous raw mic reference. Local transcription recovered both intended phrase repetitions during overlap. That’s evidence from one controlled take.
  • Performance: three 125-second moving-scene takes (off/on/off) stayed around 57 fps with zero writer drops. AEC added about 0.18 CPU core in that workload; the long take showed no upward RSS trend.
  • Routes and repeated use: speakers → HDMI → speakers, three pause/resume/restart cycles, cancel, and a fresh saved take all completed.

All 11 completed recordings fully decode. Some short takes had startup
mic gaps and one warning per affected take; neither route switch added a gap.
No further code change was needed from this pass.

Apple’s picker, external microphone/disconnect tests and independent M1
coverage remain outstanding. These results also don’t establish physical
mic/video latency or compatibility with an actual voice-AI app’s VAD.

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Thanks for the update! CI is approved and running. One thing before this can be merged: the repo only accepts rebase merges, and the branch now contains a merge commit from main, which blocks the merge button. Could you rebase onto main instead (git fetch upstream && git rebase upstream/main, then git push --force-with-lease)?

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cheers! rebased onto current main.

GitHub is requesting approval again for the new CI run. Could you approve that one too?

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