fix(audio): relay a streamed transcription live, and quiet the metadata-probe WARNs - #1000
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…ta-probe WARNs Two problems on the audio surface, both from #998. `stream=true` was answered from a fully buffered body: the handler read the upstream SSE with `resp.bytes()`, then handed the whole thing to the caller at once. The transcript was correct but the incremental delivery `stream=true` exists for was gone — 1.5s of upstream deltas over 172 reads collapsed into a single write. The relay now forwards the frames as they arrive while a side-channel decoder reads the terminal `transcript.text.done` off the same bytes, so the request is still billed and attributed from the stream's guard (end-of-stream or client disconnect, whichever comes first). A block- or mask-capable output guardrail still holds the transcript back to scan it, as on chat and responses; a monitor-only chain scans at end-of-stream instead, so monitor mode does not change delivery. `/v1/audio/speech` had the same collapse — the synthesized audio was read whole before any of it was forwarded — and is now relayed chunk by chunk, matching LiteLLM's own speech proxy. Its reservation becomes a stream hold so the concurrency slot lives as long as the download. `lofty`, the audio-metadata reader behind the duration probe, logs parse observations at WARN on ordinary mp3 uploads (`Chunk exceeds reader size, stopping`, `MPEG: Using bitrate to estimate duration`). They describe the uploaded container, not a gateway fault, and no operator can act on them, so the subscriber pins that target to ERROR. `EosOutputScan` moves out of responses.rs into `guardrail_stream` so both live-forward paths share one end-of-stream scan.
…the billing seam The functional assertions on these routes all passed while the relay was buffered — a buffered relay differs from a streaming one only in when the bytes arrive — so the new e2e measures time and chunk count instead: the mock upstream trickles its response over ~1s and the spec asserts the caller sees that same spread. Both legs read exactly one chunk with a zero spread against the pre-fix binary. The unit tests cover what the e2e can't see: the relayed bytes are the upstream's frame for frame, the stream's guard emits exactly one UsageEvent (no second zero-token emit from the handler), a provider that ignores `stream=true` and answers JSON is still billed, and a block-capable output guardrail still holds the transcript back — so `stream=true` is not a way around the check the same request gets without it. `rawBodyChunks` gives the OpenAI mock a raw body written in pieces, which is what the speech leg needs.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe proxy now relays audio transcription SSE and speech responses incrementally. It adds stream-aware timeouts, usage accounting, guardrail observation, and concurrency handling. End-to-end tests verify chunk timing and headers. The observability crate suppresses non-error ChangesAudio streaming relay
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes audio delivery from buffered responses to live streaming and adjusts related accounting and telemetry. Before merge, the e2e readiness checks should be corrected because their current design can hide setup or transport failures; bounded follow-up also remains for terminal-only transcription handling and streamed speech metric labeling. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
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Client->>AudioProxy: submit streaming audio request
AudioProxy->>AudioProvider: forward transcription or speech request
AudioProvider-->>AudioProxy: send delayed response chunks
AudioProxy-->>Client: relay response chunks incrementally
AudioProxy->>UsageAccounting: emit usage once at stream completion
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The decoder holds an unterminated frame indefinitely, so an upstream that streams without a frame terminator would grow it without bound. Drop the parse at the same 1 MiB cap the /v1/responses passthrough uses — the relay itself carries on, only telemetry is lost for that case.
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1874-1877: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winWire the
streammetric label on the speech path too.
record_audio_metricsnow reportsstreamfor transcription and translation./v1/audio/speechis also relayed chunk by chunk after this change, but itsrequest_metrics::recordcall at Line 453 still leavesstreamat its default. The by-endpoint metric therefore reports streamed speech responses as non-streamed.Set
stream: trueon the speech metric emit, or state in the PR that the speech label is deferred.As per coding guidelines: "When you touch a per-request mechanism (a runtime metric, a limit, an auth check, a usage emission, header threading), grep the offending call/pattern across the whole crate and wire every sibling path in the same PR ... or state explicitly in the PR which sibling is deferred and why".
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 31-36: Align the count in the introductory prose of “Turning a
buffered relay into a streamed one moves four things, not one” with the four
bullets that follow, so the heading and sentence consistently describe the same
number of request-scoped items.
In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs`:
- Around line 716-743: Update observe_transcript_events to read the terminal
event’s text field when present, preferring it over accumulated deltas while
respecting the cap and UTF-8 character boundaries. Preserve usage extraction and
existing delta handling for events without terminal text.
In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/audio-stream-relay-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 89-151: Update beforeAll to perform one authenticated GET
/v1/models readiness check after seeding CALLER_KEY_HASH, requiring HTTP 200.
Remove the duplicate per-test readiness gates while preserving the existing
resource-seeding order.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/e2e/src/cases/audio-stream-relay-e2e.test.ts` around
lines 181 - 190: The same per-test readiness pattern must be removed here and at
the two sibling locations identified in the comment.
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs`:
- Around line 1874-1877: Update the /v1/audio/speech request_metrics::record
call to set stream: true, matching its chunked relay behavior and the stream
label used by the transcription and translation paths; ensure all speech metric
emissions use this value.
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`transcript.text.done` carries the whole transcript in `text`, and the side-channel observation only read `delta`. A provider that answers with the terminal event alone therefore left the observed transcript empty, and both consumers went blind: the end-of-stream monitor scan returns early on empty text and the content capture exported nothing. Terminal text now wins over the assembled deltas — the same precedence the /v1/responses capture uses — with the deltas as the fallback.
Fixes #998
Two problems on the audio surface, plus a third the investigation turned up.
The relay buffered a streamed transcription.
stream=truewas answered from a fully-read body —resp.bytes()on the upstream, then one write to the caller. The transcript was correct, but the incremental deliverystream=trueexists for was gone: the probe in #998 recorded 1.476s of upstream deltas over 172 reads collapsing into a single write. The relay now forwards frames as they arrive, while a side-channel SSE decoder reads the terminaltranscript.text.doneoff the same bytes, so the request is still billed and attributed — from the stream's own guard, which fires at end-of-stream or at client disconnect, whichever comes first. The concurrency slot and the TPM/TPD commit move onto that guard too, so a stream can't release its reservation while it is still running.A block- or mask-capable output guardrail keeps the buffered path: it has to see the whole transcript before any of it reaches the caller, or
stream=truewould be a way around the check the same request gets without it. That is the chat/responses convention (#719). A monitor-only chain can never block, so it must not change delivery — it takes the live path and scans once at end-of-stream, the same shape/v1/responsesuses.EosOutputScanmoved out ofresponses.rsinto a sharedguardrail_streammodule so both live-forward paths run one implementation.Timeouts split the way every relayed path splits them: reqwest's request-level timeout bounds the body read too, so it would cut a long transcript off mid-stream — the streamed path bounds the connect phase and each chunk by the stream budget instead, and the buffered path keeps the request timeout unchanged.
/v1/audio/speechhad the same collapse — the synthesized audio was read whole before any of it was forwarded — and is now relayed chunk by chunk, so a player can start on the first bytes. LiteLLM's own speech proxy streams for exactly this reason; ours was the outlier. The reservation becomes a stream hold so the concurrency slot lives as long as the download, and the upstreamContent-Lengthis relayed when present, matching the/v1/videoscontent proxy.One telemetry shape changes with the speech relay: the handler returns once the headers are out, so a speech request's reported latency is now time-to-first-byte rather than time-to-last-byte. That is the convention every streaming surface here already follows.
loftyWARNs. The audio-metadata reader behind the duration probe logs parse observations at WARN on ordinary mp3 uploads (Chunk exceeds reader size, stopping,MPEG: Using bitrate to estimate duration). They describe the uploaded container, not a gateway fault, and there is nothing an operator can do with them — the probe already treats an unreadable file as a zero cost basis. The subscriber pins that target to ERROR rather than allowlisting the lines in the e2e log scan. The issue suggested dropping them to DEBUG, which is not reachable from here:loftylogs through thelogcrate, and a record's level is fixed at its callsite — a subscriber can filter it but never re-level it — so keeping it out of the log is the available form of "not a warning".The SSE event-count mismatch in the issue is not a relay defect.
gpt-4o-transcribeemits one delta per output token — a stream reportingoutput_tokens: 185carries 185data:lines — and the probe compares two independent transcription requests. The 184-vs-185 difference is a one-token difference in what the model heard on each leg, along with 57 bytes of different transcript text; the DP forwards the frames unchanged and cannot add one. The probe's assertion is replaced in AISIX-Cloud#1340 with one the DP's own stream can be held to: its deltas must reassemble into exactly the text its terminal event reports.Testing
New e2e (
audio-stream-relay-e2e.test.ts) measures delivery shape rather than content, because a buffered relay and a streaming one differ only in when the bytes arrive: the mock upstream trickles its response over ~1s and the spec asserts the caller sees that same spread, on both the transcription and the speech leg. Both legs read exactly one chunk with a zero spread against a pre-fix binary, and pass after.Unit tests cover what timing can't: the relayed bytes are the upstream's frame for frame, the guard emits exactly one UsageEvent (no second zero-token emit from the handler), a provider that ignores
stream=trueand answers JSON is still billed, and a block-capable output guardrail still blocks a streamed transcript.rawBodyChunksgives the OpenAI mock a raw body written in pieces, which is what the speech leg needs.Verified locally:
cargo test --workspace,cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings, and the audio + responses/guardrail e2e cases against a local binary and etcd.crates/aisix-proxy/AGENTS.mdgains a section on what moves when a buffered relay becomes a streamed one — the timeout shape, the reservation, the usage emit and the guardrail branch all have to move together, and none of them errors when missed.Paired changes
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