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…ings - Parser: skip whisper.cpp control tokens ([_BEG_], [_TT_n]) and keep zero-length tokens; either used to discard every word timing of a segment, so captions fell back to evenly spread words and drifted from the audio. - Run Whisper with DTW token timestamps (-dtw <model> -nfa) for known models, shifted 150 ms earlier to match speech onsets; fall back to plain JSON and then SRT when the runtime does not support it. Measured against isolated speech bursts, median word onset error dropped from ~1.2 s to ~54 ms. - Segmentation: end words at detected silence so pauses still split phrases, and end each caption no later than the next one starts. - Scale the Whisper timeout with audio length (3x, min 30 min) and never rerun without DTW after a timeout. Verified on a 40 minute recording. Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014WWof1pMnhBVJuJzNreUoB
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWhisper caption generation now uses audio-duration timeouts and ordered DTW, JSON, and SRT attempts. Token parsing supports DTW timestamps with validated offset fallback. Caption segmentation clips timings at silences and overlapping caption boundaries. ChangesWhisper caption timing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CaptionGeneration
participant WhisperProcess
participant TokenParser
participant CaptionSegmenter
CaptionGeneration->>WhisperProcess: run ordered Whisper attempts with duration-based timeout
WhisperProcess-->>CaptionGeneration: return JSON or SRT output
CaptionGeneration->>TokenParser: parse Whisper token timing
TokenParser-->>CaptionGeneration: return timed words and cues
CaptionGeneration->>CaptionSegmenter: segment cues with silence ranges
CaptionSegmenter-->>CaptionGeneration: return clipped caption phrases
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Overlapping Whisper segments with words at the same caption boundary can leave text and timing in both captions for 1 ms. Resolve this localized caption-timing issue before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/ipc/captions/segment.ts`:
- Line 384: Update endCaptionsBeforeNextStart to remove or reassign words whose
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Handle words that start at the next caption boundary.
endCaptionsBeforeNextStart receives cues from a globally start-sorted word stream, so a word in an earlier output cue cannot start strictly after the next output cue. It can start at the same time when overlapping Whisper cues produce equal starts. In that case, clipEnd returns word.startMs + 1, so the word remains in the earlier cue and overlaps the next cue by 1 ms. The helper also leaves the word in the caption text.
Remove or reassign words with startMs >= nextStartMs before clipping. Rebuild the affected caption text and endMs from the resulting words.
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In `@electron/ipc/captions/segment.ts` at line 384, Update
endCaptionsBeforeNextStart to remove or reassign words whose startMs is greater
than or equal to nextStartMs before applying clipEnd; rebuild the affected
caption text and endMs from the remaining words so equal-boundary words do not
remain in the earlier cue or overlap the next cue.
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Description
Auto captions lagged behind the audio. This PR fixes the word-timing pipeline and hardens it for long recordings:
[_BEG_]control token (and emits[_TT_n]and some zero-length real tokens). Any of them madeparseWhisperJsonWordsdiscard all word timings of the segment, so captions fell back to evenly spread words over long cues. Control tokens are now skipped and zero-length tokens kept.-dtw <preset> -nfa(flash attention must be off for DTW) andt_dtwis used, shifted 150 ms earlier to match speech onsets. Falls back to plain JSON, then SRT, on older runtimes.Motivation
Measured against speech-burst ground truth (each burst transcribed in isolation, 3 real recordings): median word-onset error went from 1193 ms → 54 ms (32 ms for words ≥4 chars). Verified end-to-end on a 40 minute recording: 17 min on a 12-thread laptop, Whisper RSS stable at ~1.35 GB, 660 captions all with word timings, no overlaps.
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