fix: emit destination as a string (OVOS-MSG-1 §3.3)

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Change

ovoscope/classic_listener.py, listener.py and voice_loop.py: the injected utterance stamps destination as "skills".

The clause

OpenVoiceOS/architecture origin/dev f23dbec, msg-1.md §3.3:

destination — string — opaque identifier of the intended consumer.
Absence means broadcast — every subscriber to the topic is an intended
consumer. A Message addresses one consumer or all of them; there is no
multi-address form. A producer that wants several specific consumers emits
one Message per consumer, or broadcasts.

Compatibility

Every consumer of destination in the fleet was read at its ref. None of them indexes the field or compares it to a list.

A string arrives safely on old and new consumers. The spec-tools reply() swap takes a string as it is. The list branch in ovos-spec-tools stays until all producers are migrated.

Record: knowledge/wiki/audits/spec-adoption/t2279-msg1-33-array-destination-producers.md. The first migration was JarbasHiveMind/HiveMind-core#357.

Tests

A new test in test/unittests/test_voice_loop.py checks that the value is a string. It fails at the base and passes at this branch.

test without e2e: 570 passed, 12 failed, 135 skipped. The same 12 tests fail at origin/dev. Base: 3f82307.

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