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Summary

Introduces an opt-in Text-to-Speech (TTS) feature for bot messages in the Debate Room, allowing users to listen to AI-generated responses instead of reading the entire response manually. The feature uses the browser's built-in Web Speech API, so speech synthesis runs on the client without requiring an external TTS service or API key.

A shared speech controller manages playback across bot messages, ensuring that only one message is spoken at a time.

Changes

• Speech synthesis hook: Introduces useSpeechSynthesis to manage speech playback, including starting, pausing, resuming, and stopping speech, loading available browser voices, applying per-bot voice profiles, and splitting long responses into sentence-level chunks.
• Playback controls: Adds a dedicated BotVoiceControls component with accessible Play, Pause, Resume, and Stop actions.
• Debate Room integration: Integrates speech synthesis into DebateRoom and displays playback controls exclusively on bot messages.
• Playback lifecycle management: Stops speech when a concession occurs and cancels pending playback when the Debate Room component unmounts.
• Playback safety: Adds session and timer guards to prevent stale speech from starting after rapid playback changes, stopping playback, or navigating away.
• Browser compatibility: Keeps the feature dependent on browser Web Speech API support and hides the controls when speech synthesis is unavailable.

Implementation Details

The feature is entirely client-side and uses the browser's native speech synthesis capabilities. Users explicitly control when a response is played, and switching between bot messages is handled through the shared playback controller. Sentence-level chunking helps manage longer responses, while lifecycle and session guards help prevent unintended playback.

Scope

• No backend or database changes.
• No new API keys, external TTS services, or dependencies.
• No changes to application routes or authentication flows.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added per-message speech controls in debate rooms, letting you play, pause, resume, and stop bot messages when browser speech is supported.
  • Speech playback selects a voice and adjusts speaking style based on the bot.

• Bug Fixes

  • Speech stops when you concede, the debate ends, or judgment data becomes available.

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• frontend/src/Pages/DebateRoom.tsx
• frontend/src/components/BotVoiceControls.tsx
• frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.test.ts
• frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.ts

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• frontend/src/Pages/DebateRoom.tsx

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Walkthrough

The change adds browser speech synthesis for bot messages in DebateRoom. It adds per-message playback controls, bot-specific voice profiles, chunked playback, and tests for the hook and controls.

Changes: Bot speech playback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Speech profiles and text preparation frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.ts	The hook defines playback types and bot voice profiles. It splits text into chunks and selects voices using bot preferences and fallback options.
Speech playback lifecycle frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.ts, frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.test.ts	The hook manages browser support, playback state, chunk sequencing, cancellation, pause, resume, stop, and cleanup. Tests cover playback, errors, chunk timing, voice loading, and message switching.
Per-message playback controls frontend/src/components/BotVoiceControls.tsx, frontend/src/components/__tests__/BotVoiceControls.test.tsx	The controls reflect browser support and playback state. Tests cover unsupported, idle, playing, paused, and other-message states.
DebateRoom integration frontend/src/Pages/DebateRoom.tsx	DebateRoom shares one speech hook across bot messages, renders controls when the debate permits them, and stops speech when concession begins or the debate ends, judgment data becomes available, or concession is in progress.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant BotVoiceControls
  participant useSpeechSynthesis
  participant SpeechSynthesisAPI
  User->>BotVoiceControls: Select play for a bot message
  BotVoiceControls->>useSpeechSynthesis: play(messageId, text, botName)
  useSpeechSynthesis->>SpeechSynthesisAPI: Cancel prior speech and speak chunks
  SpeechSynthesisAPI-->>useSpeechSynthesis: Report utterance completion
  useSpeechSynthesis-->>BotVoiceControls: Update playback state

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.test.ts: 1

396-441: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the two error-handling tests assert the state they describe.

Both tests end with expect(result.current).toBeDefined(). A rendered hook result is always defined, so neither assertion can fail. The file header says these tests cover the interrupted-error and other-code behaviour, but a change to the onerror handler would pass both tests.

The hook already behaves as the header describes. After play(), the 50 ms start timer sets "playing" and "msg-1" and starts the first utterance. An "interrupted" error returns early, so the state does not change. Any other error code, such as "network", sets the state to "idle" and clears the message ID.

The first test's comment says stop() was called, but the test never calls it. The comments in both tests describe stoppedRef state that the tests do not set up. Remove them and assert the real outcomes.

✅ Proposed assertions

-    // State should NOT change since we called stop() (stoppedRef is true)
-    // In this case the hook's stop guard prevents the error handler from
-    // resetting state — either way the state should remain consistent.
-    // We just verify no exception is thrown and the hook is still usable.
-    expect(result.current).toBeDefined();
+    expect(result.current.playbackState).toBe("playing");
+    expect(result.current.activeMessageId).toBe("msg-1");

-    // Manually clear the stoppedRef by simulating still-running state.
-    // We do this by directly triggering onerror with a non-interrupt code.
     const utterance = mockSS._latestUtterance();
     act(() => {
-      // Force stoppedRef to false by using the hook's own play-through
-      // Then fire the error handler
       (utterance as unknown as { onerror: (e: SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent) => void }).onerror?.(
         { error: "network" } as unknown as SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent
       );
     });

-    // After an unexpected error the hook should recover gracefully
-    expect(result.current).toBeDefined();
+    expect(result.current.playbackState).toBe("idle");
+    expect(result.current.activeMessageId).toBeNull();

This is a test coverage gap, not a current runtime failure. The hook behaves as the tests claim, but the tests cannot detect a regression.

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Review comment at @frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.test.ts around lines
396 - 441:
Update the interrupted-error and unexpected-error tests in the
`useSpeechSynthesis` test suite to assert the described state instead of
checking that `result.current` is defined. For the `"interrupted"` case, assert
playback remains `"playing"` with active message ID `"msg-1"`; for the
`"network"` case, assert playback is `"idle"` and the active message ID is null.
Remove comments that incorrectly describe `stop()` or `stoppedRef` setup that
these tests do not perform.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.ts:
- Line 215: Update pickVoice to match each preferred value against both the
voice name and locale, normalizing underscores to hyphens in v.lang before
comparing so locale preferences such as en-GB select the intended voice.

Review comments at @frontend/src/Pages/DebateRoom.tsx:
- Around line 396-398: Update the DebateRoom speech-stop effect to stop playback
when the debate has ended, judgmentData is present, or isConceding is true. Hide
BotVoiceControls when the debate has ended or concession is in progress so
speech cannot be restarted while either terminal flow is underway.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @frontend/src/hooks/useSpeechSynthesis.test.ts:
- Around line 396-441: Update the interrupted-error and unexpected-error tests
in the `useSpeechSynthesis` test suite to assert the described state instead of
checking that `result.current` is defined. For the `"interrupted"` case, assert
playback remains `"playing"` with active message ID `"msg-1"`; for the
`"network"` case, assert playback is `"idle"` and the active message ID is null.
Remove comments that incorrectly describe `stop()` or `stoppedRef` setup that
these tests do not perform.

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