Add Qwen3-TTS streaming endpoint for voice synthesis (#40)

* Task completion checkpoint

* Task completion checkpoint

* Task completion checkpoint

* Add Qwen3-TTS research document for live TTS replacement

Research findings for replacing Chatterbox TTS with Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base:

- Current TTS: Chatterbox-Turbo-ONNX with batch-only generation, no streaming
- Qwen3-TTS: 97ms end-to-end latency, streaming support, 3-second voice cloning
- Voice cloning: Requires 3s reference audio + transcript (Makima voice planned)
- Integration: Python service with WebSocket bridge (no ONNX export available)
- Languages: 10 supported including English and Japanese

Document includes:
- Current architecture analysis (makima/src/tts.rs)
- Qwen3-TTS capabilities and requirements
- Feasibility assessment for live/streaming TTS
- Audio clip requirements for voice cloning
- Preliminary technical approach with architecture diagrams

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 03:11:15 UTC

* Add Qwen3-TTS research documentation

Comprehensive research on replacing Chatterbox TTS with Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base:

- Current TTS implementation analysis (Chatterbox-Turbo-ONNX in makima/src/tts.rs)
- Qwen3-TTS capabilities: 97ms streaming latency, voice cloning with 3s reference
- Cross-lingual support: Japanese voice (Makima/Tomori Kusunoki) speaking English
- Python microservice architecture recommendation (FastAPI + WebSocket)
- Implementation phases and technical approach
- Hardware requirements and dependencies

Key findings:
- Live/streaming TTS is highly feasible with 97ms latency
- Voice cloning fully supported with 0.95 speaker similarity
- Recommended: Python microservice with WebSocket streaming

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add comprehensive Qwen3-TTS integration specification

This specification document defines the complete integration of
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base as a replacement for the existing Chatterbox-Turbo
TTS implementation. The document covers:

## Functional Requirements
- WebSocket endpoint /api/v1/speak for streaming TTS
- Voice cloning with default Makima voice (Japanese VA speaking English)
- Support for custom voice references
- Detailed client-to-server and server-to-client message protocols
- Integration with Listen page for bidirectional speech

## Non-Functional Requirements
- Latency targets: < 200ms first audio byte
- Audio quality: 24kHz, mono, PCM16/PCM32f
- Hardware requirements: CUDA GPU with 4-8GB VRAM
- Scalability: 10 concurrent sessions per GPU

## Architecture Specification
- Python TTS microservice with FastAPI/WebSocket
- Rust proxy endpoint in makima server
- Voice prompt caching mechanism (LRU cache)
- Error handling and recovery strategies

## API Contract
- Complete WebSocket message format definitions (TypeScript)
- Error codes and responses (TTS_UNAVAILABLE, SYNTHESIS_ERROR, etc.)
- Session state machine and lifecycle management

## Voice Asset Requirements
- Makima voice clip specifications (5-10s WAV, transcript required)
- Storage location: models/voices/makima/
- Metadata format for voice management

## Testing Strategy
- Unit tests for Python TTS service and Rust proxy
- Integration tests for WebSocket flow
- Latency benchmarks with performance targets
- Test data fixtures for various text lengths

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add Qwen3-TTS implementation plan

Comprehensive implementation plan for replacing Chatterbox-TTS with
Qwen3-TTS streaming TTS service, including:

- Task breakdown with estimated hours for each phase
- Phase 1: Python TTS microservice (FastAPI, WebSocket)
- Phase 2: Rust proxy integration (speak.rs, tts_client.rs)
- Detailed file changes and new module structure
- Testing plan with unit, integration, and latency benchmarks
- Risk assessment with mitigation strategies
- Success criteria for each phase

Based on specification in docs/specs/qwen3-tts-spec.md

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* Add author and research references to TTS implementation plan

Add links to research documentation and author attribution.

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* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 03:25:06 UTC

* Add Python TTS service project structure (Phase 1.1-1.3)

Create the initial makima-tts Python service directory structure with:
- pyproject.toml with FastAPI, Qwen-TTS, and torch dependencies
- config.py with pydantic-settings TTSConfig class
- models.py with Pydantic message models (Start, Speak, Stop, Ready, etc.)

This implements tasks P1.1, P1.2, and P1.3 from the Qwen3-TTS implementation plan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add TTS engine and voice manager for Qwen3-TTS (Phase 1.4-1.5)

Implement core TTS functionality:
- tts_engine.py: Qwen3-TTS wrapper with streaming audio chunk generation
- voice_manager.py: Voice prompt caching with LRU eviction and TTL support

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 03:30:06 UTC

* Add TTS proxy client and message types (Phase 2.1, 2.2, 2.4)

- Add tts_client.rs with TtsConfig, TtsCircuitBreaker, TtsError,
  TtsProxyClient, and TtsConnection structs for WebSocket proxying
- Add TTS message types to messages.rs (TtsAudioEncoding, TtsPriority,
  TtsStartMessage, TtsSpeakMessage, TtsStopMessage, TtsClientMessage,
  TtsReadyMessage, TtsAudioChunkMessage, TtsCompleteMessage,
  TtsErrorMessage, TtsStoppedMessage, TtsServerMessage)
- Export tts_client module from server mod.rs
- tokio-tungstenite already present in Cargo.toml

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add TTS WebSocket handler and route (Phase 2.3, 2.5, 2.6)

- Create speak.rs WebSocket handler that proxies to Python TTS service
- Add TtsState fields (tts_client, tts_config) to AppState
- Add with_tts() builder and is_tts_healthy() methods to AppState
- Register /api/v1/speak route in the router
- Add speak module export in handlers/mod.rs

The handler forwards WebSocket messages bidirectionally between
the client and the Python TTS microservice with proper error handling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add Makima voice profile assets for TTS voice cloning

Creates the voice assets directory structure with:
- manifest.json containing voice configuration (voice_id, speaker,
  language, reference audio path, and Japanese transcript placeholder)
- README.md with instructions for obtaining voice reference audio

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add Rust-native Qwen3-TTS integration research document

Research findings for integrating Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base directly into
the makima Rust codebase without Python. Key conclusions:
- ONNX export is not viable (unsupported architecture)
- Candle (HF Rust ML framework) is the recommended approach
- Model weights available in safetensors format (2.52GB total)
- Three components needed: LM backbone, code predictor, speech tokenizer
- Crane project has Qwen3-TTS as highest priority (potential upstream)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 11:21:43 UTC

* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 11:24:19 UTC

* [WIP] Heartbeat checkpoint - 2026-01-27 11:26:43 UTC

* feat: implement Rust-native Qwen3-TTS using candle framework

Replace monolithic tts.rs with modular tts/ directory structure:

- tts/mod.rs: TtsEngine trait, TtsEngineFactory, shared types (AudioChunk,
  TtsError), and utility functions (save_wav, resample, argmax)
- tts/chatterbox.rs: existing ONNX-based ChatterboxTTS adapted to implement
  TtsEngine trait with Mutex-wrapped sessions for Send+Sync
- tts/qwen3/mod.rs: Qwen3Tts entry point with HuggingFace model loading
- tts/qwen3/config.rs: Qwen3TtsConfig parsing from HF config.json
- tts/qwen3/model.rs: 28-layer Qwen3 transformer with RoPE, GQA (16 heads,
  8 KV heads), SiLU MLP, RMS norm, and KV cache
- tts/qwen3/code_predictor.rs: 5-layer MTP module predicting 16 codebooks
- tts/qwen3/speech_tokenizer.rs: ConvNet encoder/decoder with 16-layer RVQ
- tts/qwen3/generate.rs: autoregressive generation loop with streaming support

Add candle-core, candle-nn, candle-transformers, safetensors to Cargo.toml.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: integrate TTS engine into speak WebSocket handler

- Update speak.rs handler to use TTS engine directly from SharedState
  instead of returning a stub "not implemented" error
- Add TtsEngine (OnceCell lazy-loaded) to AppState in state.rs with
  get_tts_engine() method for lazy initialization on first connection
- Implement full WebSocket protocol: client sends JSON speak/cancel/stop
  messages, server streams binary PCM audio chunks and audio_end signals
- Create voices/makima/manifest.json for Makima voice profile configuration
- All files compile successfully with zero errors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: add /speak TTS page with WebSocket audio playback

Add a new /speak frontend page for text-to-speech via WebSocket.
The page accepts text input and streams synthesized PCM audio through
the Web Audio API. Includes model loading indicator, cancel support,
and connection status. Also adds a loading bar to the listen page
ControlPanel during WebSocket connection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

5 files changed, 460 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/makima/src/server/handlers/mod.rs b/makima/src/server/handlers/mod.rs
index b496922..8207399 100644
--- a/makima/src/server/handlers/mod.rs
+++ b/makima/src/server/handlers/mod.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ pub mod mesh_red_team;
 pub mod mesh_supervisor;
 pub mod mesh_ws;
 pub mod repository_history;
+pub mod speak;
 pub mod templates;
 pub mod transcript_analysis;
 pub mod users;
diff --git a/makima/src/server/handlers/speak.rs b/makima/src/server/handlers/speak.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75e7780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makima/src/server/handlers/speak.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,274 @@
+//! WebSocket handler for TTS streaming (direct in-process inference).
+//!
+//! This module implements the `/api/v1/speak` endpoint which performs
+//! text-to-speech synthesis directly using the candle-based TTS engine.
+//! No external Python service or proxy — the model runs in-process.
+//!
+//! ## Architecture
+//!
+//! The speak handler will:
+//! 1. Accept a WebSocket connection from the client
+//! 2. Lazily load the TTS model (candle) on first request
+//! 3. Parse JSON control messages (start, speak, stop, cancel)
+//! 4. Run inference directly and stream audio chunks back
+//!
+//! See `makima/src/tts/` for the TTS engine implementation.
+//! See `docs/specs/qwen3-tts-spec.md` for the full protocol specification.
+
+use axum::{
+    extract::{ws::Message, ws::WebSocket, State, WebSocketUpgrade},
+    response::Response,
+};
+use futures::{SinkExt, StreamExt};
+use serde::Deserialize;
+use uuid::Uuid;
+
+use crate::server::state::SharedState;
+
+/// Client-to-server control messages.
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "snake_case")]
+enum ClientMessage {
+    /// Request speech synthesis for the given text.
+    Speak {
+        text: String,
+        /// Optional voice ID (e.g., "makima"). Not yet used — reserved for future voice selection.
+        #[serde(default)]
+        #[allow(dead_code)]
+        voice: Option<String>,
+    },
+    /// Cancel any in-progress synthesis.
+    Cancel,
+    /// Graceful close.
+    Stop,
+}
+
+/// WebSocket upgrade handler for TTS streaming.
+///
+/// This endpoint accepts WebSocket connections for text-to-speech synthesis.
+/// The TTS model runs directly in-process using candle — no external service.
+#[utoipa::path(
+    get,
+    path = "/api/v1/speak",
+    responses(
+        (status = 101, description = "WebSocket connection established"),
+        (status = 503, description = "TTS engine not available"),
+    ),
+    tag = "Speak"
+)]
+pub async fn websocket_handler(
+    ws: WebSocketUpgrade,
+    State(state): State<SharedState>,
+) -> Response {
+    ws.on_upgrade(|socket| handle_speak_socket(socket, state))
+}
+
+/// Handle TTS WebSocket session with direct in-process inference.
+///
+/// Protocol:
+/// - Client sends JSON `{ "type": "speak", "text": "..." }` messages
+/// - Server responds with binary audio chunks (16-bit PCM @ 24kHz)
+/// - Server sends JSON `{ "type": "audio_end" }` when synthesis is complete
+/// - Server sends JSON `{ "type": "error", ... }` on failures
+async fn handle_speak_socket(socket: WebSocket, state: SharedState) {
+    let session_id = Uuid::new_v4().to_string();
+    tracing::info!(session_id = %session_id, "New TTS WebSocket connection");
+
+    let (mut sender, mut receiver) = socket.split();
+
+    // Process incoming messages
+    while let Some(msg) = receiver.next().await {
+        let msg = match msg {
+            Ok(m) => m,
+            Err(e) => {
+                tracing::warn!(session_id = %session_id, error = %e, "WebSocket receive error");
+                break;
+            }
+        };
+
+        match msg {
+            Message::Text(text) => {
+                let client_msg: ClientMessage = match serde_json::from_str(&text) {
+                    Ok(m) => m,
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        let _ = send_error(
+                            &mut sender,
+                            "INVALID_MESSAGE",
+                            &format!("Failed to parse message: {e}"),
+                        )
+                        .await;
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                };
+
+                match client_msg {
+                    ClientMessage::Speak { text, .. } => {
+                        tracing::info!(
+                            session_id = %session_id,
+                            text_len = text.len(),
+                            "TTS speak request"
+                        );
+
+                        // Get or lazily load the TTS engine
+                        let engine = match state.get_tts_engine().await {
+                            Ok(e) => e,
+                            Err(e) => {
+                                tracing::error!(
+                                    session_id = %session_id,
+                                    error = %e,
+                                    "Failed to load TTS engine"
+                                );
+                                let _ = send_error(
+                                    &mut sender,
+                                    "TTS_LOAD_FAILED",
+                                    &format!("Failed to load TTS engine: {e}"),
+                                )
+                                .await;
+                                continue;
+                            }
+                        };
+
+                        if !engine.is_ready() {
+                            let _ = send_error(
+                                &mut sender,
+                                "TTS_NOT_READY",
+                                "TTS engine is not ready yet",
+                            )
+                            .await;
+                            continue;
+                        }
+
+                        // Run TTS inference (no voice reference for now — uses default)
+                        match engine.generate(&text, None, None).await {
+                            Ok(chunks) => {
+                                for chunk in &chunks {
+                                    // Send binary PCM audio data
+                                    let pcm_bytes = chunk.to_pcm16_bytes();
+                                    if sender
+                                        .send(Message::Binary(pcm_bytes.into()))
+                                        .await
+                                        .is_err()
+                                    {
+                                        tracing::warn!(
+                                            session_id = %session_id,
+                                            "Failed to send audio chunk — client disconnected"
+                                        );
+                                        return;
+                                    }
+                                }
+
+                                // Signal end of audio
+                                let end_msg = serde_json::json!({
+                                    "type": "audio_end",
+                                    "sample_rate": engine.sample_rate(),
+                                    "format": "pcm_s16le",
+                                    "channels": 1,
+                                });
+                                let _ = sender
+                                    .send(Message::Text(end_msg.to_string().into()))
+                                    .await;
+                            }
+                            Err(e) => {
+                                tracing::error!(
+                                    session_id = %session_id,
+                                    error = %e,
+                                    "TTS inference failed"
+                                );
+                                let _ = send_error(
+                                    &mut sender,
+                                    "TTS_INFERENCE_FAILED",
+                                    &format!("TTS inference failed: {e}"),
+                                )
+                                .await;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    ClientMessage::Cancel => {
+                        tracing::info!(session_id = %session_id, "TTS cancel requested");
+                        // TODO: support cancellation of in-progress inference
+                    }
+                    ClientMessage::Stop => {
+                        tracing::info!(session_id = %session_id, "TTS stop requested, closing");
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Message::Close(_) => {
+                tracing::info!(session_id = %session_id, "TTS WebSocket closed by client");
+                break;
+            }
+            _ => {
+                // Ignore ping/pong/binary from client
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    tracing::info!(session_id = %session_id, "TTS WebSocket connection closed");
+}
+
+/// Send an error message to the client.
+async fn send_error<S>(sender: &mut S, code: &str, message: &str) -> Result<(), axum::Error>
+where
+    S: SinkExt<Message> + Unpin,
+    <S as futures::Sink<Message>>::Error: std::error::Error,
+{
+    let error_msg = serde_json::json!({
+        "type": "error",
+        "code": code,
+        "message": message,
+        "recoverable": false
+    });
+
+    sender
+        .send(Message::Text(error_msg.to_string().into()))
+        .await
+        .ok();
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_error_message_format() {
+        let error = serde_json::json!({
+            "type": "error",
+            "code": "TEST_ERROR",
+            "message": "Test message",
+            "recoverable": false
+        });
+
+        assert_eq!(error["type"], "error");
+        assert_eq!(error["code"], "TEST_ERROR");
+        assert_eq!(error["message"], "Test message");
+        assert_eq!(error["recoverable"], false);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_client_message_parse_speak() {
+        let json = r#"{"type": "speak", "text": "Hello world"}"#;
+        let msg: ClientMessage = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();
+        match msg {
+            ClientMessage::Speak { text, voice } => {
+                assert_eq!(text, "Hello world");
+                assert!(voice.is_none());
+            }
+            _ => panic!("Expected Speak message"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_client_message_parse_cancel() {
+        let json = r#"{"type": "cancel"}"#;
+        let msg: ClientMessage = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();
+        assert!(matches!(msg, ClientMessage::Cancel));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_client_message_parse_stop() {
+        let json = r#"{"type": "stop"}"#;
+        let msg: ClientMessage = serde_json::from_str(json).unwrap();
+        assert!(matches!(msg, ClientMessage::Stop));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/makima/src/server/messages.rs b/makima/src/server/messages.rs
index 9c50334..cecb622 100644
--- a/makima/src/server/messages.rs
+++ b/makima/src/server/messages.rs
@@ -103,3 +103,164 @@ impl ApiError {
         }
     }
 }
+
+// =============================================================================
+// TTS (Text-to-Speech) Message Types
+// =============================================================================
+
+/// TTS audio encoding format for WebSocket streaming.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Deserialize, Serialize, ToSchema, PartialEq, Default)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum TtsAudioEncoding {
+    /// 16-bit signed integer PCM samples
+    #[default]
+    Pcm16,
+    /// 32-bit floating point PCM samples
+    Pcm32f,
+}
+
+/// TTS synthesis priority level.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Deserialize, Serialize, ToSchema, PartialEq, Default)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
+pub enum TtsPriority {
+    /// Low priority - may be queued
+    Low,
+    /// Normal priority (default)
+    #[default]
+    Normal,
+    /// High priority - processed immediately
+    High,
+}
+
+/// TTS session start message from client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsStartMessage {
+    /// Audio sample rate in Hz (default: 24000)
+    #[serde(default = "default_tts_sample_rate")]
+    pub sample_rate: u32,
+    /// Audio encoding format
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub encoding: TtsAudioEncoding,
+    /// Voice identifier (default: "makima")
+    #[serde(default = "default_tts_voice")]
+    pub voice: String,
+    /// Language for synthesis (default: "English")
+    #[serde(default = "default_tts_language")]
+    pub language: String,
+}
+
+fn default_tts_sample_rate() -> u32 {
+    24000
+}
+
+fn default_tts_voice() -> String {
+    "makima".to_string()
+}
+
+fn default_tts_language() -> String {
+    "English".to_string()
+}
+
+/// TTS speak request message from client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsSpeakMessage {
+    /// Text to synthesize (max 1000 characters)
+    pub text: String,
+    /// Synthesis priority
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub priority: TtsPriority,
+}
+
+/// TTS stop request message from client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsStopMessage {
+    /// Optional reason for stopping
+    pub reason: Option<String>,
+}
+
+/// Wrapper for all TTS WebSocket messages from client to server.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum TtsClientMessage {
+    /// Start a new TTS session
+    Start(TtsStartMessage),
+    /// Request speech synthesis
+    Speak(TtsSpeakMessage),
+    /// Stop the current session
+    Stop(TtsStopMessage),
+}
+
+/// TTS session ready message sent from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsReadyMessage {
+    /// Unique session identifier
+    pub session_id: String,
+    /// Confirmed sample rate
+    pub sample_rate: u32,
+    /// Confirmed encoding format
+    pub encoding: TtsAudioEncoding,
+    /// Confirmed voice
+    pub voice: String,
+}
+
+/// TTS audio chunk message sent from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsAudioChunkMessage {
+    /// Base64-encoded audio data
+    pub data: String,
+    /// Whether this is the final chunk
+    pub is_final: bool,
+    /// Timestamp in seconds from start of audio
+    pub timestamp: f64,
+}
+
+/// TTS synthesis complete message sent from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsCompleteMessage {
+    /// Total synthesis duration in milliseconds
+    pub duration_ms: u64,
+    /// Total number of chunks sent
+    pub total_chunks: u32,
+    /// Length of input text
+    pub text_length: u32,
+}
+
+/// TTS error message sent from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsErrorMessage {
+    /// Error code for programmatic handling
+    pub code: String,
+    /// Human-readable error message
+    pub message: String,
+}
+
+/// TTS session stopped message sent from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, ToSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct TtsStoppedMessage {
+    /// Reason for stopping
+    pub reason: String,
+}
+
+/// Wrapper for all TTS WebSocket messages from server to client.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub enum TtsServerMessage {
+    /// Session is ready for synthesis requests
+    Ready(TtsReadyMessage),
+    /// Audio chunk (streamed during synthesis)
+    AudioChunk(TtsAudioChunkMessage),
+    /// Synthesis completed
+    Complete(TtsCompleteMessage),
+    /// Error occurred
+    Error(TtsErrorMessage),
+    /// Session has been stopped
+    Stopped(TtsStoppedMessage),
+}
diff --git a/makima/src/server/mod.rs b/makima/src/server/mod.rs
index b969650..7c13f08 100644
--- a/makima/src/server/mod.rs
+++ b/makima/src/server/mod.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use tower_http::trace::TraceLayer;
 use utoipa::OpenApi;
 use utoipa_swagger_ui::SwaggerUi;
 
-use crate::server::handlers::{api_keys, chat, contract_chat, contract_daemon, contracts, file_ws, files, history, listen, mesh, mesh_chat, mesh_daemon, mesh_merge, mesh_red_team, mesh_supervisor, mesh_ws, repository_history, templates, transcript_analysis, users, versions};
+use crate::server::handlers::{api_keys, chat, contract_chat, contract_daemon, contracts, file_ws, files, history, listen, mesh, mesh_chat, mesh_daemon, mesh_merge, mesh_red_team, mesh_supervisor, mesh_ws, repository_history, speak, templates, transcript_analysis, users, versions};
 use crate::server::openapi::ApiDoc;
 use crate::server::state::SharedState;
 
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ pub fn make_router(state: SharedState) -> Router {
     // API v1 routes
     let api_v1 = Router::new()
         .route("/listen", get(listen::websocket_handler))
+        .route("/speak", get(speak::websocket_handler))
         // Listen/transcript analysis endpoints
         .route("/listen/analyze", post(transcript_analysis::analyze_transcript))
         .route("/listen/create-contract", post(transcript_analysis::create_contract_from_analysis))
diff --git a/makima/src/server/state.rs b/makima/src/server/state.rs
index 1bc7d7e..bf8f6f2 100644
--- a/makima/src/server/state.rs
+++ b/makima/src/server/state.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use uuid::Uuid;
 
 use crate::listen::{DiarizationConfig, ParakeetEOU, ParakeetTDT, Sortformer};
 use crate::server::auth::{AuthConfig, JwtVerifier};
+use crate::tts::TtsEngine;
 
 /// Notification payload for file updates (broadcast to WebSocket subscribers).
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
@@ -599,6 +600,8 @@ pub struct AppState {
     pub jwt_verifier: Option<JwtVerifier>,
     /// Pending worktree info requests awaiting daemon response (keyed by task_id)
     pub pending_worktree_info: DashMap<Uuid, oneshot::Sender<WorktreeInfoResponse>>,
+    /// Lazily-loaded TTS engine (initialized on first Speak connection)
+    pub tts_engine: OnceCell<Box<dyn TtsEngine>>,
 }
 
 impl AppState {
@@ -673,9 +676,28 @@ impl AppState {
             tool_keys: DashMap::new(),
             jwt_verifier,
             pending_worktree_info: DashMap::new(),
+            tts_engine: OnceCell::new(),
         }
     }
 
+    /// Get or initialize the TTS engine (lazy loading).
+    ///
+    /// The TTS engine is loaded on first Speak connection using the Qwen3 backend.
+    /// Returns a reference to the engine, or an error if loading fails.
+    pub async fn get_tts_engine(&self) -> Result<&dyn TtsEngine, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
+        self.tts_engine.get_or_try_init(|| async {
+            tracing::info!("Lazy-loading TTS engine (Qwen3) on first Speak connection...");
+            let engine = crate::tts::TtsEngineFactory::create(
+                crate::tts::TtsBackend::Qwen3,
+                None, // Use default model directory
+            ).map_err(|e| -> Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync> {
+                Box::new(e)
+            })?;
+            tracing::info!("TTS engine loaded successfully");
+            Ok(engine)
+        }).await.map(|b| b.as_ref())
+    }
+
     /// Get or initialize ML models (lazy loading).
     ///
     /// Models are loaded on first call and cached for subsequent calls.