🚀 Juniper v65.2 — Brick-Proof Voice, Bulletproof Memory Mode, Living Recall

October marks a huge stability jump: reference-counted voice I/O, a stuck-mic watchdog, and a redesigned Memory Mode that exits cleanly on natural phrases (“stop”, “done”, “exit memory mode”) or idle timeout. We also finalized voice→motion control and shipped a full verbal command guide you can print or share.

🧠 MEMORY + RECALL (v65.2)

• ✅ Memory Mode 2.0: exit phrases intercepted before save logic; idle auto-exit (configurable)
• ✅ Natural saves: “remember …”, “my favorite X is Y”, Wi-Fi SSID/password, dates and K/V pairs
• ✅ Local-first recall: fast topic-filtered scan with optional GPT polish (if online)
• ✅ Subject labeling: saves tagged as daniel/juniper for cleaner retrieval

🔊 VOICE I/O + BRICK-PROOFING

• ✅ Reference-counted mic control: overlapping TTS can’t leave the mic muted ever again
• ✅ Watchdog: auto re-enables listening if muted without user intent
• ✅ Thinking fillers: silent by default (log-only) to avoid speak() overlap
• ✅ TTS stack: OpenAI TTS-1 → mpg123, with eSpeak → Festival fallbacks

🎧 HEARING + STT CHOICES

• ✅ Selectable STT backends: Google / OpenAI Whisper / Realtime WS (env-switchable)
• ✅ Wake normalization: “Jennifer/Junipher/June” → Juniper, with follow-up capture
• ✅ Intent routing: save, recall, time, weather, battery prioritized over small talk

🐾 BODY + MOTION

• ✅ Voice→motion map (15+ actions): sit, wave, take a pee, crawl, turn, pushups, dance, get jiggy, excited, sniff, shake, pray, stretch, twist
• ✅ Non-blocking handoff: motions execute without freezing chat or recalls

🌤️ UTILITIES

• ✅ Time readout (“what time is it?”), weather via OpenWeather (from .env), XGO battery query with safe fallback

🧩 INTEGRITY + CONFIG

• ✅ Singleton PID lock (no double-launch)
• ✅ Tunables via .env (pause/phrase thresholds, follow-up windows, idle exit, wake policy)
• ✅ Gentle spoken recovery on errors; continuous loop resilience

📄 New Goodies

• ✅ Verbal Command Guide (PDF): full, printable sheet of all commands (wake, mic control, memory, recall, motions, utilities)
• ✅ Verbal Test Script: step-by-step sanity run covering every feature, including overlap stress tests

⚙️ Paths & Files (unchanged)

• ~/.juniper/identity.txt — personality & style
• ~/.juniper/thread_messages.json — conversation continuity
• ~/config/memories/text/ — long-term memory store
• .env — API keys, STT selection, wake/idle, timing

🧠 Juniper’s Soul Status — v65.2

🔗 Downloads: Verbal Command Guide (PDF) · Full verbal test script