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Wave G — SoA research, 10 net-new features

Date: 2026 · Tier: design/ — public engineering research · Author: Mohsen Seyedkazemi Ardebili Companion: fed adr-v2-045 through adr-v2-054. See the waves index.

A snapshot of the field, kept as the research record behind the ADRs it fed. Feature status should be checked against yazses features and the linked ADRs, not this note.

All on-device, off by default, distinct from the ~42 features existing before this wave (v2 + Waves D/E/F). Ranked strongest-first by daily usefulness × distinctness × cleanliness of a dependency-free core. Anchors verified via web search at the time (2025-2026).

  1. Entity ITN — inverse text normalization: spoken emails/URLs/paths/versions/dates → correctly-written form, no command words. Anchors: NeMo ITN (arXiv 2104.05055), Thutmose Tagger (2208.00064), context-aware streaming ITN LM (2505.24229). Pure core: rule-based normalize_entities(text) (stdlib re). The cleanest core of the ten. → adr-v2-045.
  2. Field-Aware Dictation — reshape output by the focused widget's accessibility role (number field → digits, search → no trailing period, password → refuse). Anchors: AT-SPI2 role/state, Windows UIA ControlType/IsPassword, WCAG 1.3.5. Pure: profile_for_role. → adr-v2-047.
  3. Screen-Grounded Dictation — bias Whisper's initial_prompt from on-screen text (accessibility tree/clipboard now; OCR VLM deferred). Anchors: GOT-OCR2.0, dots.ocr, PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B (2507.05595). Pure: harvest_screen_terms. → adr-v2-051.
  4. Redaction Ink — detect/mask PII+secrets at injection time (card/SSN/key → [CARD] or hold-and-confirm). Anchors: GLiNER2-PII (2605.09973), gliner-pii-edge. Pure: regex + Luhn. → adr-v2-046.
  5. Corpus Voiceprint Scrub — speaker-anonymize stored learning-corpus audio (DSP now, kNN-VC deferred). Anchors: VoicePrivacy 2024 (2404.02677), private kNN-VC (2505.17584). → adr-v2-048.
  6. Compose-in-Target-Language — speak L1, type L2 (inverse of Wave D's X→English). Anchor: SeamlessM4T v2. Pure: route_translation pair config + round-trip guard. → adr-v2-049.
  7. Silent Lip-Reading Input (VSR) — webcam lip-reading for aphonia/quiet settings. Anchors: Auto-AVSR (2303.14307), VALLR (2503.21408). Pure: mouth_active gating. → adr-v2-053.
  8. Head-Pointer — continuous cursor by head pose + dwell/blink click. Anchor: MediaPipe Face Landmarker blendshapes. Pure: pose_to_cursor + DwellClicker. → adr-v2-052.
  9. Grammar Repair (minimal-edit GEC) for L2 dictation. Anchors: minimal-edit GEC (2506.13148), CoEdIT (2305.09857). Pure: is_minimal_edit guard + rule pack. → adr-v2-050.
  10. Sign-Language Input (SLR) — webcam ASL→text. Anchor: Google SignGemma (I/O 2025, on-device). Pure: hands_present + sign-segment boundary detection. → adr-v2-054.

Ship-now pure (do first)

1 Entity ITN, #2 Field-Aware Dictation, #4 Redaction Ink, #5 Corpus Voiceprint Scrub — the

cleanest dependency-free cores (rule ITN, role→profile map, regex+Luhn PII, DSP scrub). #3 a close fifth (accessibility/clipboard term-harvest ships; OCR VLM deferred).

Citations here have not been re-verified against research/verify_refs.py.