chore: auto-commit from dashboard

tests/test_voice_normalize.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import pytest
 from src.voice.normalize import (
     expand_abbreviations,
     expand_currency,
+    expand_for_tts,
     expand_numbers_ro,
     expand_symbols,
     normalize_for_tts,
@@ -108,11 +109,19 @@ def test_normalize_for_tts_currency_ro_accounting_format(text, expected):
     ("foo & bar", "foo și bar"),
     ("Marius @ home", "Marius la home"),
     ("30°", "30 grade"),
+    ("~30", "aproximativ 30"),
 ])
 def test_expand_symbols(text, expected):
     assert expand_symbols(text) == expected
 
 
+def test_expand_symbols_tilde_english():
+    # Bare '~' passed unexpanded to pocket-tts corrupts nearby speech
+    # (observed: dropped/garbled words, shortened audio) — must become
+    # a spoken word before reaching the TTS engine, not stay literal.
+    assert expand_symbols("~six thousand", lang='en') == "about six thousand"
+
+
 # ============================================================
 # Abbreviations (4)
 # ============================================================
@@ -148,6 +157,18 @@ def test_truncate_over_200_words_appends_suffix():
     assert words[200:] == ["Restul", "l-am", "scris", "în", "chat."]
 
 
+# ============================================================
+# English number path (pocket-tts, lang='en')
+# ============================================================
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("text,expected", [
+    ("Bank balance: ~105.300 lei.", "Bank balance: about one hundred and five thousand, three hundred lei."),
+    ("Cash balance: ~6.000 lei.", "Cash balance: about six thousand lei."),
+    ("That takes 3.5 hours.", "That takes three point five hours."),
+])
+def test_expand_for_tts_english_numbers(text, expected):
+    assert expand_for_tts(text, lang='en') == expected
+
+
 # ============================================================
 # Edge cases (2)
 # ============================================================