huge commit. assistant code is now semifunctional

frontend/vad_recorder_test.ipynb

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+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from vad_recorder import VADRecorder\n",
+    "import time\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Instantiate WhisperWrap with the target device name and other parameters\n",
+    "vad_rec = VADRecorder()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "print(\"Starting VAD recording thread\")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "try:\n",
+    "    vad_rec.start_vad_recorder(target_device_name=\"Virtual\")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    recordings_count = 0\n",
+    "    now_speech = False\n",
+    "\n",
+    "    print(\"Done!\")\n",
+    "    while True:\n",
+    "        if vad_rec.speech != now_speech:\n",
+    "            now_speech = vad_rec.speech\n",
+    "            print(f\"Speech: {now_speech}\")\n",
+    "        if len(vad_rec.audios_for_whisper) != recordings_count:\n",
+    "            recordings_count = len(vad_rec.audios_for_whisper)\n",
+    "            print(f\"Recordings count: {recordings_count}\")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "        time.sleep(0.01)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):\n",
+    "    print(\"Cleaning up...\")\n",
+    "    vad_rec.stop_vad_recorder()\n"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
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