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Wave J — SoA research, 10 net-new features

Date: 2026 · Tier: design/ — public engineering research · Author: Mohsen Seyedkazemi Ardebili Companion: fed adr-v2-075 through adr-v2-084. 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 72 features existing before this wave (v2 + Waves D-I). Ranked strongest-first; anchors web-verified at the time (2025-2026). Two independent research streams converged on the #1 flagship (confidence-gated re-ask).

  1. Confidence-Gated Re-Ask (flagship) — hold only the low-confidence span and interactively resolve it (A/B confusable disambiguation or "say that word again"), patching the placeholder. Anchor: arXiv 2503.15124, 2502.13446, 2402.06509. Pure: low_confidence_spans(tokens, logprobs, thresh) + confusion_set + parse_choice. Distinct from Confidence Ink (marks only; this repairs). faster-whisper already emits token log-probs. → adr-v2-077.
  2. Phonetic Spelling Mode — NATO words → exact characters ("capital alpha bravo double lima" → "Abll") for passwords/codes/IDs. Anchor: Picovoice NATO engine (user-value, weak novelty). Pure: spell_parse(words) dict+modifier grammar. Distinct from Entity ITN (normalizes prose). → adr-v2-075.
  3. Verbatim ⇄ Autoformat Live Toggle — reserved phrases flip a per-burst flag freezing/ restoring ITN+punctuation+reflow mid-burst. Anchor: Azure "Display text formatting", arXiv 2505.24229. Pure: VerbatimGate.apply + detect_mode_command. A runtime ITN switch. → adr-v2-078.
  4. Crowd-Proof Dictation (target-speaker extraction) — reconstruct the enrolled voice out of babble pre-STT. Anchor: LGTSE arXiv 2508.19583, SpeakerBeam-SS 2407.01857. Pure: enrollment + overlap-add + A/B mix (numpy); Conv-TasNet/SSM model deferred. Rescues Cocktail Filter. → adr-v2-084.
  5. Voice Git Choreographer — structured git argv grammar (never free-form shell); a reversibility classifier gates destructive ops behind confirm + always speaks the undo. Anchor: NaSh arXiv 2506.13028, 2510.06445. Pure: build_git_argv + reversibility + undo_hint, no deferred backend. Distinct from Terminal Safety Gate (git-porcelain intent build vs generic matching). → adr-v2-076.
  6. Self-Learning Correction Dictionary — mine repeated ASR-output→edit pairs (via EditWatcher) into a boundary-guarded auto find→replace. Anchor: arXiv 2406.07589. Pure: mine_substitutions + apply_corrections. Distinct from Phonetic Corrector (pronunciation) / tune (config). → adr-v2-079.
  7. Voice Fuzzy File Open — "open the notes about the mortgage" → fuzzy/semantic match over a local file index, xdg-open. Anchor: arXiv 2410.11843, EmbeddingGemma-300M. Pure: fuzzy_rank
  8. resolve_open; semantic extra deferred. Distinct from Spoken Recall (dictation memory). → adr-v2-080.
  9. Voice Jump-to-Symbol / Structural Hop — "jump to function tokenize", "go to line 240" → editor motion. Anchor: Cursorless, ACM CUI 2023 DOI 10.1145/3571884.3597130. Pure: resolve_target + fuzzy_pick + plan_motion; LSP symbol list deferred. No camera/grid. → adr-v2-081.
  10. Recording Import (batch transcription) — yazses transcribe <file> → .txt/.srt offline at tens-hundreds× RT. Anchor: NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v2 (RTFx~3386, 2025). Pure: discovery + chunking + SRT/VTT writer + timestamp merge; Parakeet backend deferred (faster-whisper fallback). Distinct from live Meeting Scribe/Diarize (pre-recorded batch). → adr-v2-083.
  11. Spoken Shell Pipeline Builder (dry-run first) — speak stages → render ls | grep error | wc -l as text, never execute until "run it". Anchor: NaSh 2506.13028, NL2SH NAACL 2025 2502.06858. Pure: parse_stages + render_pipeline (shlex.quote) + dryrun_wrap; NL2Bash SLM deferred. Distinct from Terminal Safety Gate (constructs vs classifies). → adr-v2-082.

Ship-now pure (do first)

2 Phonetic Spelling (pure dict), #3 Verbatim⇄Autoformat (state machine), #1 Confidence Re-Ask

gate (pure log-prob math), #5 Git Choreographer (pure rule table, no deferred backend).

Runner-ups considered and cut at the time: Spoken Diff/Patch Review, Flow Dictation (Kyutai STT), Intonation Punctuation (emotion2vec+), Ask-This-Clip (Voxtral), Spoken Shortcut Coach.

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