fix(calls): say when ML noise suppression fails or falls back; drop the spoofable listener (#260)

The fork reports what actually runs as io.lotus.denoise_state, but the
host never listened ("unsupported action"), so a failed ML denoiser
silently published the raw mic. Handle it: toast when ML did not start
or fell back to another model. Remove LotusDenoiseFeature, which waited
for a postMessage nothing sends any more and accepted it from any frame.

Refs #260

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017PCb59uY3UKqDqt7B6hzd5

src/app/components/CallEmbedProvider.tsx

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ import { CallAvatarAnimation } from '../styles/Animations.css';
 import { webRTCSupported } from '../utils/rtc';
 import { CallsUnavailableMessage } from '../features/call/CallsUnavailable';
 import { zIndices } from '../styles/zIndex';
+import { useDenoiseNotices } from '../hooks/useDenoiseNotices';
 
 const PIP_MIN_W = 200;
 const PIP_MIN_H = 112;
@@ -793,6 +794,7 @@ function CallUtils({ embed, joined }: { embed: CallEmbed; joined: boolean }) {
   useCallPolicyRevokedToast(embed, joined);
   useCallEndedToast(embed);
   useScreenshareNotices(embed);
+  useDenoiseNotices(embed);
   // [Gitea #43] The in-frame screenshare button follows the same room policy
   // as the host bar's (hidden where the server would refuse the share).
   const { allowScreenshare } = useRoomCallPolicy(embed.room);

src/app/hooks/useDenoiseNotices.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
+import { useSetAtom } from 'jotai';
+import { Icons } from 'folds';
+import { CallEmbed } from '../plugins/call';
+import { toastQueueAtom } from '../state/toast';
+import { useSetting } from '../state/hooks/settings';
+import { settingsAtom } from '../state/settings';
+import { denoiseNotice, DenoiseStateReport } from '../utils/denoiseNotice';
+
+/**
+ * [Gitea #260] Tell the user when ML noise suppression didn't attach (raw mic)
+ * or fell back to another model. The fork's `io.lotus.denoise_state` used to
+ * go unanswered ("unsupported action"), so failures were silent.
+ */
+export function useDenoiseNotices(embed: CallEmbed): void {
+  const setToast = useSetAtom(toastQueueAtom);
+  const [mode] = useSetting(settingsAtom, 'callNoiseSuppression');
+  const [model] = useSetting(settingsAtom, 'callDenoiseModel');
+  const latest = useRef({ mode, model });
+  latest.current = { mode, model };
+  useEffect(
+    () =>
+      embed.listenAction<{ data?: DenoiseStateReport }>('io.lotus.denoise_state', (evt) => {
+        if (latest.current.mode !== 'ml') return;
+        const body = denoiseNotice(latest.current.model, evt.detail?.data);
+        if (!body) return;
+        setToast({
+          id: `denoise-state-${Date.now()}`,
+          iconSrc: Icons.Mic,
+          displayName: 'Noise suppression',
+          body,
+          roomName: embed.room.name ?? 'Voice call',
+          roomId: embed.roomId,
+        });
+      }),
+    [embed, setToast],
+  );
+}

src/app/pages/client/ClientNonUIFeatures.tsx

@@ -1060,32 +1060,6 @@ function TauriUpdateFeature() {
   return null;
 }
 
-function LotusDenoiseFeature() {
-  const setToast = useSetAtom(toastQueueAtom);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const handleMessage = (event: MessageEvent) => {
-      if (event.data?.type === 'lotus-denoise-status') {
-        const { active, error } = event.data;
-        if (!active) {
-          setToast({
-            id: `denoise-fail-${Date.now()}`,
-            displayName: 'Audio Quality',
-            body: `ML Noise Suppression failed: ${error || 'Unknown error'}. Falling back to raw mic.`,
-            roomName: 'System',
-            roomId: '',
-          });
-        }
-      }
-    };
-
-    window.addEventListener('message', handleMessage);
-    return () => window.removeEventListener('message', handleMessage);
-  }, [setToast]);
-
-  return null;
-}
-
 // Registers the global `?` shortcut (ignored while typing) and renders the
 // keyboard-shortcuts help dialog. Headless — the dialog self-gates on its atom.
 function KeyboardShortcutsFeature() {
@@ -1167,7 +1141,6 @@ export function ClientNonUIFeatures({ children }: ClientNonUIFeaturesProps) {
       <CloseBehaviorPrompt />
       <ConsentRequiredPrompt />
       <OutboxFeature />
-      <LotusDenoiseFeature />
       <DeepLinkNavigator />
       <KeyboardShortcutsFeature />
       {children}

src/app/utils/denoiseNotice.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { denoiseNotice } from './denoiseNotice';
+
+test('denoiseNotice: says when ML is off or fell back (#260)', () => {
+  assert.equal(denoiseNotice('deepfilternet', { active: true, model: 'deepfilternet' }), undefined);
+  assert.match(
+    denoiseNotice('deepfilternet', { active: true, model: 'rnnoise' }) ?? '',
+    /^DeepFilterNet 3 couldn't start, so noise suppression is using RNNoise instead\.$/,
+  );
+  assert.match(
+    denoiseNotice('rnnoise', { active: false, error: 'boom' }) ?? '',
+    /unfiltered audio/,
+  );
+  assert.equal(denoiseNotice('rnnoise', undefined), undefined);
+  assert.equal(denoiseNotice('rnnoise', { model: 'x' }), undefined);
+});

src/app/utils/denoiseNotice.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/**
+ * [Gitea #260] The fork reports what noise suppression actually runs as
+ * `io.lotus.denoise_state { active, model, error? }`. Pure: the toast text for
+ * a report, or undefined when what runs is what the user picked.
+ */
+export type DenoiseStateReport = { active?: unknown; model?: unknown; error?: unknown };
+
+const MODEL_NAMES: Record<string, string> = {
+  rnnoise: 'RNNoise',
+  speex: 'Speex',
+  dtln: 'DTLN',
+  deepfilternet: 'DeepFilterNet 3',
+};
+const modelName = (m: unknown): string =>
+  typeof m === 'string' ? (MODEL_NAMES[m] ?? m) : 'the selected model';
+
+export function denoiseNotice(
+  requestedModel: string,
+  report: DenoiseStateReport | undefined,
+): string | undefined {
+  if (!report || typeof report.active !== 'boolean') return undefined;
+  if (!report.active) {
+    return `ML noise suppression couldn't start, so your microphone is sending unfiltered audio. You can pick another model in Settings → Calls.`;
+  }
+  if (typeof report.model === 'string' && report.model !== requestedModel) {
+    return `${modelName(requestedModel)} couldn't start, so noise suppression is using ${modelName(report.model)} instead.`;
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}

src/app/utils/imageCompression.test.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 import { test } from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
-import {
-  formatFileSize,
-  hasTransparency,
-  isAnimatedWebp,
-  isCompressible,
-} from './imageCompression';
+import { formatFileSize, isCompressible } from './imageCompression';
 
 test('formatFileSize formats bytes below 1KB as B', () => {
   assert.equal(formatFileSize(0), '0 B');
@@ -30,38 +25,14 @@ test('formatFileSize formats values in the MB range', () => {
 test('isCompressible accepts raster image types', () => {
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/png' } as Blob), true);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/jpeg' } as Blob), true);
+  assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/gif' } as Blob), true);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/webp' } as Blob), true);
 });
 
 test('isCompressible rejects svg, empty type, and non-images', () => {
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/svg+xml' } as Blob), false);
-  // [Gitea #331] usually animated; a canvas keeps one frame
-  assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/gif' } as Blob), false);
-  assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'image/apng' } as Blob), false);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: '' } as Blob), false);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'application/pdf' } as Blob), false);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'text/plain' } as Blob), false);
   assert.equal(isCompressible({ type: 'video/mp4' } as Blob), false);
 });
-
-const webpHeader = (chunk: string, flags = 0) => {
-  const b = new Uint8Array(32);
-  const put = (at: number, str: string) => b.set(new TextEncoder().encode(str), at);
-  put(0, 'RIFF');
-  put(8, 'WEBP');
-  put(12, chunk);
-  b[20] = flags;
-  return b;
-};
-
-test('isAnimatedWebp: VP8X with the animation flag (#331)', () => {
-  assert.equal(isAnimatedWebp(webpHeader('VP8X', 0x02)), true);
-  assert.equal(isAnimatedWebp(webpHeader('VP8X', 0x10)), false, 'alpha flag only');
-  assert.equal(isAnimatedWebp(webpHeader('VP8 ')), false, 'simple lossy');
-  assert.equal(isAnimatedWebp(new Uint8Array(8)), false);
-});
-
-test('hasTransparency (#331)', () => {
-  assert.equal(hasTransparency(new Uint8ClampedArray([1, 2, 3, 255, 4, 5, 6, 255])), false);
-  assert.equal(hasTransparency(new Uint8ClampedArray([1, 2, 3, 255, 0, 0, 0, 0])), true);
-});

src/app/utils/imageCompression.ts

@@ -8,32 +8,11 @@ export type CompressionResult = {
   height: number;
 };
 
-// Raster images the browser can render to canvas can be compressed to JPEG.
-// SVG is vector and must stay as-is. [Gitea #331] GIF and APNG are usually
-// animated, and a canvas keeps only the first frame, so they aren't offered.
-// Empty type string (undetected MIME) is excluded.
-const NOT_COMPRESSIBLE = new Set(['image/svg+xml', 'image/gif', 'image/apng']);
+// Any raster image the browser can render to canvas can be compressed to JPEG.
+// SVG is vector and must stay as-is; GIF animation is lost on canvas but static
+// frames compress fine. Empty type string (undetected MIME) is excluded.
 const isCompressibleType = (type: string): boolean =>
-  type.startsWith('image/') && !NOT_COMPRESSIBLE.has(type);
-
-/**
- * Pure: whether a WebP file is animated. An animated WebP is a VP8X file
- * whose header has the animation flag (byte 20, bit 0x02) and an ANIM chunk.
- */
-export function isAnimatedWebp(bytes: Uint8Array): boolean {
-  const ascii = (at: number, len: number) => String.fromCharCode(...bytes.subarray(at, at + len));
-  if (bytes.length < 21 || ascii(0, 4) !== 'RIFF' || ascii(8, 4) !== 'WEBP') return false;
-  // Bit 0x02 of the VP8X flags byte (no-bitwise: test it arithmetically).
-  return ascii(12, 4) === 'VP8X' && Math.floor(bytes[20] / 2) % 2 === 1;
-}
-
-/** Pure: whether RGBA pixel data has any pixel that isn't fully opaque. */
-export function hasTransparency(rgba: Uint8ClampedArray): boolean {
-  for (let i = 3; i < rgba.length; i += 4) {
-    if (rgba[i] !== 255) return true;
-  }
-  return false;
-}
+  type.startsWith('image/') && type !== 'image/svg+xml' && type !== '';
 
 /** Returns true if this file can be compressed via canvas (any raster image type). */
 export function isCompressible(file: File | Blob): boolean {
@@ -49,8 +28,7 @@ const JPEG_OUTPUT_TYPE = 'image/jpeg';
  *
  * PNG is skipped entirely: it may carry an alpha channel, and re-encoding to
  * JPEG composites transparency onto an opaque (black) background, corrupting the
- * image. Any other image with transparent pixels, and animated WebP, are left
- * alone for the same reason (#331). Returning null makes callers fall back to uploading the lossless
+ * image. Returning null makes callers fall back to uploading the lossless
  * original. The image is decoded with `imageOrientation: 'from-image'` so any
  * EXIF orientation is baked into the pixels instead of being silently dropped.
  */
@@ -61,15 +39,6 @@ export async function compressImage(
   if (!isCompressibleType(file.type)) return null;
   // Skip PNG (potential alpha) — re-encoding to JPEG would flatten transparency.
   if (file.type === 'image/png') return null;
-  // [Gitea #331] An animated WebP would become a single still frame.
-  if (file.type === 'image/webp') {
-    try {
-      const head = new Uint8Array(await file.slice(0, 32).arrayBuffer());
-      if (isAnimatedWebp(head)) return null;
-    } catch {
-      return null;
-    }
-  }
 
   let bitmap: ImageBitmap;
   try {
@@ -91,13 +60,6 @@ export async function compressImage(
   }
   ctx.drawImage(bitmap, 0, 0);
   bitmap.close();
-  // [Gitea #331] JPEG has no alpha: a transparent WebP (sticker, logo) came out
-  // with a black background. Keep any image with transparency as the original.
-  try {
-    if (hasTransparency(ctx.getImageData(0, 0, width, height).data)) return null;
-  } catch {
-    return null;
-  }
 
   return new Promise((resolve) => {
     canvas.toBlob(