horizon-speech

# Horizon speech input check Run this when a user says dictation "types the wrong thing", produces text they never said, or produces nothing. ## Read this first Whisper-family models **hallucinate fluent, plausible text when fed silence**. Given a digitally silent recording, NB-Whisper will confidently emit something like `Esther Smith, forfatter` — grammatical, idiomatic, and completely unrelated to the user. The output looks like a model, accent, or dialect problem. It is almost always a capture problem. So: **measure the capture level before touching models, languages, or config.** Never conclude "the model is bad at your accent" until step 3 shows real signal. A user cannot tell these apart from the transcript alone. That is the whole reason this skill exists. ## 1. Compare configured device against reality Horizon resolves its config by checking, in order, `$HOME/.horizon/`, then `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/horizon/`, then a relative `horizon.yaml`/`horizon.yml` in the working directory. Resolution keys off `HOME` on every platform — **Windows included**; `USERPROFILE` is never consulted, so a native Windows launch without `HOME` set falls back to the relative path. Confirm which file is actually live before trusting it, or you may inspect a config Horizon never loaded. Read `features.speech` from that file: - `input_device: ""` means the system default input is used. - A non-empty name is matched case-insensitively: exact, then substring, then a normalized identity key...