Teach it back: the AI becomes the curious student

A new mode where the user explains a topic in their own words and the AI
plays a curious classmate: short reactions, exactly one follow-up question
at a time, never "correct"/"wrong", never lecturing, and everything it knows
comes from the user's own decks and notes.

- Entry points: a sidebar row next to Exam mode and a "Teach it back" action
  in every deck's menu (which prefills the topic and scope).
- Start screen: deck or typed topic, friendly/skeptical student, the same
  context and model chips as Chat (/teach?deck=<id> pre-selects the deck).
- Session: the student prompt is a mode of the existing /api/chat route, so
  model resolution, allowlists, rate limits and the streaming client are the
  same code; the personality lives in lib/prompts.ts (TEACH_*). The deck's
  cards travel as a numbered checklist and the student is told to ask about
  the ideas that were skipped; it must say so rather than guess when the
  notes cover nothing. One constant (TEACH_MAX_EXCHANGES = 10) ends the
  session, or the Finish button does.
- Recap: a teach_summary call (JSON, one repair retry) yields well / gaps
  with card references / next steps; each gap links to the card it means.
  "Add missed cards to review" schedules those activities due now; "Turn
  gaps into cards" generates one flashcard per gap from the deck's notes and
  shows an editable review list before saving.
- Sessions are chat conversations with a mode:"teach" marker + session
  record: same IndexedDB history, backup and sync, filtered out of the Chat
  screens; the recent list reopens a recap or continues a session.
- Reused pieces: MessageRow, Composer (now optional attach/scope chips and a
  mic), Markdown/KaTeX, AiDisclaimer, ContextPicker/ModelPicker, plus a
  shared useChatModels hook and useKeyboardInset extracted from Chat.
- Dictation: Web Speech API recognition (lib/speech-input.ts); the mic only
  renders where the browser supports it, and dictated phrases land in the
  draft.
- All strings in en + cs. teach-test: 44 checks (API prompts and guards,
  both entry points, the session, recap actions, history, exchange limit,
  360/390px layouts, mic on/off). Version 0.8.1, SW v103.
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"use client";
/**
* Browser dictation for "teach it back" (and anything else that wants it):
* the Web Speech API's recognition side. Chrome, Edge and some Safari builds
* expose it as `SpeechRecognition` / `webkitSpeechRecognition`; other engines
* do not, so the UI asks `speechInputAvailable()` first and simply hides the
* mic when the answer is no.
*
* Nothing leaves the app ourselves: the audio goes to whatever recogniser the
* browser uses, exactly like the system dictation key on a phone keyboard.
* The API types are not in TypeScript's DOM lib, so the minimal shapes live
* here rather than leaking `any`.
*/
type RecognitionResultLike = { isFinal: boolean; 0: { transcript: string } };
type RecognitionEventLike = { resultIndex: number; results: ArrayLike<RecognitionResultLike> };
type RecognitionLike = {
lang: string;
continuous: boolean;
interimResults: boolean;
maxAlternatives: number;
start(): void;
stop(): void;
abort(): void;
onresult: ((event: RecognitionEventLike) => void) | null;
onerror: (() => void) | null;
onend: (() => void) | null;
};
type RecognitionCtor = new () => RecognitionLike;
function recognitionCtor(): RecognitionCtor | null {
if (typeof window === "undefined") return null;
const scope = window as unknown as { SpeechRecognition?: RecognitionCtor; webkitSpeechRecognition?: RecognitionCtor };
return scope.SpeechRecognition ?? scope.webkitSpeechRecognition ?? null;
}
export function speechInputAvailable(): boolean {
return recognitionCtor() !== null;
}
export type SpeechInput = { stop: () => void };
/**
* Starts listening. Final phrases arrive through `onText` (append them to the
* draft); `onEnd` fires exactly once when listening stops, however it stops.
* Returns null when the browser cannot listen or `start()` fails.
*/
export function startSpeechInput(options: {
/** BCP-47 tag, usually `speechLocale(deck.language, getLocale())`. */
lang: string;
onText: (text: string) => void;
onEnd: () => void;
}): SpeechInput | null {
const Ctor = recognitionCtor();
if (!Ctor) return null;
let recognition: RecognitionLike;
try {
recognition = new Ctor();
} catch {
return null;
}
let finished = false;
const finish = () => {
if (finished) return;
finished = true;
options.onEnd();
};
recognition.lang = options.lang;
recognition.continuous = true;
recognition.interimResults = true;
recognition.maxAlternatives = 1;
recognition.onresult = (event) => {
for (let index = event.resultIndex; index < event.results.length; index += 1) {
const result = event.results[index];
if (!result?.isFinal) continue;
const transcript = result[0]?.transcript?.trim();
if (transcript) options.onText(transcript);
}
};
recognition.onerror = finish;
recognition.onend = finish;
try {
recognition.start();
} catch {
finish();
return null;
}
return {
stop() {
try {
recognition.stop();
} catch {
/* already stopped */
}
finish();
},
};
}