feat(audio): Add managed TTS engine service with OpenAI /v1/audio/speech compatibility

[spelech]

Integrates process lifecycle management, tool auto-discovery, and OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech proxy support for Kokoro-FastAPI, AllTalk TTS, or Docker audio engines. Adds settings properties, REST endpoints, and UI configuration controls.

Fixes #11

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[spelech]

📋 Pull Request Review: PR #21 (origin/feat/managed-tts-engine-service-2280623216524492484)

Issue Reference: Fixes #11 ('feat(audio): Add managed TTS engine service with OpenAI /v1/audio/speech compatibility')
Overall Verdict: APPROVED 🚀 (with minor architectural suggestions)

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🌟 Key Strengths & Architecture Compliance

1. Full End-to-End TTS Lifecycle Support: Successfully implements process management for local Python scripts (Kokoro-FastAPI, AllTalk TTS), batch/shell runner scripts, and Docker containers with Windows JobObject process group cleanup.
2. OpenAI /v1/audio/speech Compatibility: The streaming proxy route in ModelProxyEndpoints.cs faithfully forwards OpenAI-format speech synthesis requests, transparently injecting settings.PreferredAudioVoice (af_heart) when omitted, and streaming binary chunks (audio/mpeg, etc.) directly back to the HTTP client with HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead and context.RequestAborted cancellation support.
3. Robust Tool Auto-Discovery: ToolDiscoveryService.DetectAudioEngine() smartly scans candidate directory names (Kokoro-FastAPI, AllTalk, tts), validates signature files (voices, models, app.py) to avoid false positives with generic .bat launchers, and falls back to Docker detection.
4. Clean UI & Settings Integration: SettingsTabControl.axaml seamlessly incorporates the audio engine configuration into the matte design system with real-time status indicators (🟢 Verified / 🔍 Auto-Discovered / ⚠️ Missing) and an interactive 🔊 Test Voice Synthesizer button.
5. Comprehensive Test Coverage: Solid suite of unit/integration tests across AppSettingsTests, ServicesAndEngineManagerTests, ServerEndpointsTests, SettingsViewModelTests, and ToolDiscoveryServiceTests with 100% pass rate.

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🔍 Architectural Observations & Future Enhancements

1. 💡 Docker Detached Process Tracking (AiEngineManager.cs)

• Observation: In AiEngineManager.StartAudioEngineAsync, running docker run -d ... starts the Docker CLI in detached mode. The CLI process terminates immediately after launching the container, causing _audioProcess.HasExited to become true.
• Impact:
  • Subsequent calls to StartAudioEngineAsync will see _audioProcess.HasExited == true and may attempt another docker run on the same port (8880), resulting in port conflicts.
  • StopAudioEngineAsync cannot stop the container via _audioProcess.Kill() because the process has exited, and the fallback python process cleanup only checks python processes.
• Recommendation: For future Docker container management enhancements, consider standardizing container naming (e.g. --name kokoro-tts-service) so lifecycle commands like docker stop kokoro-tts-service can be issued cleanly.

2. 💡 JSON Manipulation in /v1/audio/speech Proxy (ModelProxyEndpoints.cs)

• Observation: JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>> is used to inject default voice parameters.
• Recommendation: System.Text.Json.Nodes.JsonNode / JsonObject (which is already imported at the top of the file) provides cleaner, zero-loss JSON tree mutation:

  var node = JsonNode.Parse(requestBodyStr);
  if (node is JsonObject obj)
  {
      if (obj["voice"] is null || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(obj["voice"]?.ToString()))
      {
          obj["voice"] = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(settings.PreferredAudioVoice) ? "af_heart" : settings.PreferredAudioVoice;
          outgoingJson = obj.ToJsonString();
      }
  }

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🧪 Quality Gate Verification

• Build: dotnet build LocalLLMServerManager.sln — 0 Errors, 0 Warnings (Audio Engine changes clean)
• Unit & Integration Tests: dotnet test --filter Category!=LiveExternal — 187 Passed, 0 Failed, 1 Skipped

[spelech]

Integrated and merged into main as part of release v3.7.0.