fix(cli/tts): native-level WAVs for KokoroAne in tts-asr-verify + tts-benchmark

[Alex-Wengg]

Follow-up to #868 (issue #852): two CLI artifact writers still peak-normalized KokoroAne output to 0 dBFS via the AudioWAV.data default, contradicting the native-level behavior #868 shipped.

• TTSAsrVerifyCommand (KokoroAne-only): persisted --audio-dir WAVs now write at native level via normalize: false.
• TtsBenchmarkCommand: the shared phrase loop takes an explicit normalizeWavs per-backend policy — kokoro-ane writes native level; pocket-tts / styletts2 / supertonic3 keep peak normalization, matching each backend's own shipping output path.

ASR scoring is level-invariant, so benchmark WER/CER numbers are unaffected; only the persisted WAV levels change. swift build + swift format lint clean.

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Supertonic3 Smoke Test ✅

Check	Result
Build	✅
Model download (incl. VectorEstimatorVariants/ int4 buckets)	✅
Model load	✅
Synthesis pipeline (--ve-variant int4)	✅
Output WAV	✅ (364.7 KB)

_{Runtime: 0m34s}

_{Note: CI VMs lack a physical Neural Engine; the ANE-bucketed VectorEstimator falls back to CPU here. This validates download + variant resolution + synthesis, not ANE residency/perf.}

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PocketTTS Smoke Test ✅

Check	Result
Build	✅
Model download	✅
Model load	✅
Synthesis pipeline	✅
Output WAV	✅ (153.8 KB)

_{Runtime: 0m28s}

_{Note: PocketTTS uses CoreML MLState (macOS 15) KV cache + Mimi streaming state. CI VM lacks physical GPU — audio quality and performance may differ from Apple Silicon.}

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Parakeet EOU Benchmark Results ✅

Status: Benchmark passed
Chunk Size: 320ms
Files Tested: 100/100

Performance Metrics

Metric	Value	Description
WER (Avg)	7.03%	Average Word Error Rate
WER (Med)	4.17%	Median Word Error Rate
RTFx	5.61x	Real-time factor (higher = faster)
Total Audio	470.6s	Total audio duration processed
Total Time	84.5s	Total processing time

Streaming Metrics

Metric	Value	Description
Avg Chunk Time	0.085s	Average chunk processing time
Max Chunk Time	0.169s	Maximum chunk processing time
EOU Detections	0	Total End-of-Utterance detections

_{Test runtime: 2m20s • 08/19/2026, 12:16 PM EST}

_{RTFx = Real-Time Factor (higher is better) • Processing includes: Model inference, audio preprocessing, state management, and file I/O}

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Offline VBx Pipeline Results

Speaker Diarization Performance (VBx Batch Mode)

Optimal clustering with Hungarian algorithm for maximum accuracy

Metric	Value	Target	Status	Description
DER	10.4%	<20%	✅	Diarization Error Rate (lower is better)
RTFx	9.75x	>1.0x	✅	Real-Time Factor (higher is faster)

Offline VBx Pipeline Timing Breakdown

Time spent in each stage of batch diarization

Stage	Time (s)	%	Description
Model Download	21.695	20.2	Fetching diarization models
Model Compile	9.298	8.6	CoreML compilation
Audio Load	0.068	0.1	Loading audio file
Segmentation	30.866	28.7	VAD + speech detection
Embedding	107.241	99.7	Speaker embedding extraction
Clustering (VBx)	0.150	0.1	Hungarian algorithm + VBx clustering
Total	107.577	100	Full VBx pipeline

Speaker Diarization Research Comparison

Offline VBx achieves competitive accuracy with batch processing

Method	DER	Mode	Description
FluidAudio (Offline)	10.4%	VBx Batch	On-device CoreML with optimal clustering
FluidAudio (Streaming)	17.7%	Chunk-based	First-occurrence speaker mapping
Research baseline	18-30%	Various	Standard dataset performance

Pipeline Details:

• Mode: Offline VBx with Hungarian algorithm for optimal speaker-to-cluster assignment
• Segmentation: VAD-based voice activity detection
• Embeddings: WeSpeaker-compatible speaker embeddings
• Clustering: PowerSet with VBx refinement
• Accuracy: Higher than streaming due to optimal post-hoc mapping

_{🎯 Offline VBx Test • AMI Corpus ES2004a • 1049.0s meeting audio • 138.3s processing • Test runtime: 2m 26s • 08/19/2026, 12:16 PM EST}

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Speaker Diarization Benchmark Results

Speaker Diarization Performance

Evaluating "who spoke when" detection accuracy

Metric	Value	Target	Status	Description
DER	15.1%	<30%	✅	Diarization Error Rate (lower is better)
JER	24.9%	<25%	✅	Jaccard Error Rate
RTFx	16.83x	>1.0x	✅	Real-Time Factor (higher is faster)

Diarization Pipeline Timing Breakdown

Time spent in each stage of speaker diarization

Stage	Time (s)	%	Description
Model Download	14.458	23.2	Fetching diarization models
Model Compile	6.196	9.9	CoreML compilation
Audio Load	0.105	0.2	Loading audio file
Segmentation	18.692	30.0	Detecting speech regions
Embedding	31.153	50.0	Extracting speaker voices
Clustering	12.461	20.0	Grouping same speakers
Total	62.341	100	Full pipeline

Speaker Diarization Research Comparison

Research baselines typically achieve 18-30% DER on standard datasets

Method	DER	Notes
FluidAudio	15.1%	On-device CoreML
Research baseline	18-30%	Standard dataset performance

Note: RTFx shown above is from GitHub Actions runner. On Apple Silicon with ANE:

• M2 MacBook Air (2022): Runs at 150 RTFx real-time
• Performance scales with Apple Neural Engine capabilities

_{🎯 Speaker Diarization Test • AMI Corpus ES2004a • 1049.0s meeting audio • 62.3s diarization time • Test runtime: 3m 38s • 08/19/2026, 12:17 PM EST}

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VAD Benchmark Results

Performance Comparison

Dataset	Accuracy	Precision	Recall	F1-Score	RTFx	Files
MUSAN	94.0%	89.3%	100.0%	94.3%	296.6x faster	50
VOiCES	94.0%	89.3%	100.0%	94.3%	376.2x faster	50

Dataset Details

• MUSAN: Music, Speech, and Noise dataset - standard VAD evaluation
• VOiCES: Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings - tests robustness in real-world conditions

✅: Average F1-Score above 70%

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Sortformer High-Latency Benchmark Results

ES2004a Performance (30.4s latency config)

Metric	Value	Target	Status
DER	30.3%	<35%	✅
Miss Rate	28.2%	-	-
False Alarm	0.9%	-	-
Speaker Error	1.2%	-	-
RTFx	18.4x	>1.0x	✅
Speakers	4/4	-	-

_{Sortformer High-Latency • ES2004a • Runtime: 3m 29s • 2026-08-19T16:27:07.682Z}

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ASR Benchmark Results ✅

Status: All benchmarks passed

Parakeet v3 (multilingual)

Dataset	WER Avg	WER Med	RTFx	Status
test-clean	0.57%	0.00%	3.85x	✅
test-other	1.19%	0.00%	2.39x	✅

Parakeet v2 (English-optimized)

Dataset	WER Avg	WER Med	RTFx	Status
test-clean	0.80%	0.00%	5.03x	✅
test-other	1.40%	0.00%	3.34x	✅

Streaming (v3)

Metric	Value	Description
WER	0.00%	Word Error Rate in streaming mode
RTFx	0.41x	Streaming real-time factor
Avg Chunk Time	2.334s	Average time to process each chunk
Max Chunk Time	3.362s	Maximum chunk processing time
First Token	2.909s	Latency to first transcription token
Total Chunks	31	Number of chunks processed

Streaming (v2)

Metric	Value	Description
WER	0.00%	Word Error Rate in streaming mode
RTFx	0.52x	Streaming real-time factor
Avg Chunk Time	1.663s	Average time to process each chunk
Max Chunk Time	2.470s	Maximum chunk processing time
First Token	1.779s	Latency to first transcription token
Total Chunks	31	Number of chunks processed

_{Streaming tests use 5 files with 0.5s chunks to simulate real-time audio streaming}

_{25 files per dataset • Test runtime: 16m12s • 08/19/2026, 12:36 PM EST}

_{RTFx = Real-Time Factor (higher is better) • Calculated as: Total audio duration ÷ Total processing time
Processing time includes: Model inference on Apple Neural Engine, audio preprocessing, state resets between files, token-to-text conversion, and file I/O
Example: RTFx of 2.0x means 10 seconds of audio processed in 5 seconds (2x faster than real-time)}

Expected RTFx Performance on Physical M1 Hardware:

• M1 Mac: ~28x (clean), ~25x (other)
• CI shows ~0.5-3x due to virtualization limitations

_{Testing methodology follows HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard}