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atomer-nvidia and others added 2 commits June 30, 2026 11:32
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Address the VDR 26.02 finding that python-clients CLIs exit 0 on most
error paths across all three modalities. Each script now:

  - Wraps main() with @cli_main so gRPC and OS errors propagate to a
    real exit code instead of being printed and swallowed.
  - Calls sys.exit(main()) so the chosen exit code reaches the shell.

Script-specific fixes:

  scripts/nmt/nmt.py
    - Drop the inner request() try/except that swallowed every gRPC
      status; let cli_main translate it. Empty/whitespace --text and
      missing --text-file now return EXIT_BAD_INPUT (was: silent
      exit 0). Document --max-len-variation as decoder-token units
      with valid range [0, 256], default 20, and Arabic chunking note.

  scripts/tts/talk.py
    - Reject whitespace-only --text up front (defense-in-depth pair to
      the server-side fix in riva-speech that closed the hang on
      `--text "   "`). Drop the broad `except Exception` that
      stringified gRPC errors and exited 0.

  scripts/asr/transcribe_file*.py
    - Replace `print(...); return` on missing input files with
      EXIT_BAD_INPUT. Remove the silent grpc.RpcError swallow in
      transcribe_file_offline.py.

  scripts/asr/transcribe_mic.py + realtime_asr_client.py + tts/talk.py
    - Pyaudio install hint now mentions `apt-get install -y
      portaudio19-dev` (Debian/Ubuntu) and `brew install portaudio`
      (macOS), pairing with the prereqs doc landed in documentation_2.

  scripts/tts/realtime_tts_client.py
    - Drop the module-level `from riva.client.audio_io import
      SoundCallBack` import (it was unused and pulled pyaudio in
      eagerly, defeating the lazy import). Drop the broad
      `except Exception` that mapped every failure to exit 1.

  scripts/nmt/nmt_speech_to_{text,speech}.py
    - Drop unused `import grpc`; remove the catch-all that printed
      "Error during translation" and exited 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When no --voice is passed, the server was receiving voice_name='' from
the fresh session payload but missing the explicit empty string, causing
it to retain its initialization default ('English-US.Male-1') which isn't
a valid voice on magpie-tts-multilingual.

Fixes NVBug 6261715.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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