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Closes #540.

The transcript could be read and cut. It could not be corrected — a misheard
name meant re-recording or living with it, and a word the speaker skipped had
nowhere to go. This makes the transcript editable without making it a second
source of truth.

What lands

Word edits are immutable records, not rewrites. A correction is stored next
to the transcript, keyed on the word it replaces, so a re-transcription does not
silently discard it — the edit is reapplied to the new words. The per-asset
transcript stays the SSOT; nothing edits it in place.

Adding a word buys itself time. A word dropped between two words that run
into each other used to get no time at all: nothing on the timeline, nothing for
a voice to speak into. The pause it needs is now its own record —
timeline.insertRanges, source-anchored, shaped like a trim because it is the
inverse operation and a region is the shape this timeline already carries safely
end to end.

An earlier attempt made clips for this and lost both the pauses and the words
they belonged to: every other writer of timeline.clips — the duration probe,
the recording import, resequencing — is entitled to disagree with a clip it did
not make. That attempt is reverted in this branch (ba66e5e6), and the shape
that replaced it is the reason the rest holds.

Every reader now measures the same ruler. Playback holds the frame across a
pause (heldSec on the derived PlaybackSegment — a field nothing can write to
a stored clip); the native decoder parks rather than free-runs, so screen and
webcam hold together; the ruler, ticks, clip boxes, lane pills and playhead all
go through expandRawSec. Stored clip geometry is never rewritten — only what
is drawn moves. Captions follow by expanding both ends of a line's span, so a
line covering a held moment stays on screen through it.

The agent can correct a word it heard wrong. It had exactly one tool that
touched a word — addTrim, which removes audio. Now it can fix the name.

Correctness fixes found on the way: CJK segment edges read by code point
(non-BMP Han), and referenced-word ownership validated independently of the
language tag.

Invariants

  • The aggregate stays derived; edits land on the asset transcript and pass
    through with their wordIds.
  • withInsertRangesForWords is the single writer of insertRanges, and
    insertRangesMatchWords is that rule read back so a test holds the writer to
    it rather than trusting it.
  • A pause under 50ms is not stored: a few frames of held image is a stutter, not
    a slot.

Verified

tsc, tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, biome check clean. 189 test files / 2342
tests pass.

Merge order

This overlaps #569 (imported audio) in RightPanes.tsx and
aggregated-transcript.ts, where #569 parameterizes the aggregation by lane
(issue #560). This branch is the smaller of the two and predates that work, so
it goes first; #569 rebases onto it and pays the merge once.

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  • New Features
    • Added word-level transcript editing, including correction, blanking, insertion, removal, and reverting changes.
    • Added transcript word lookup and correction tools with optional time-range filtering.
    • Added timeline markers and playback support for inserted words without underlying audio.
    • Preserved transcript corrections when transcription is refreshed.
  • Localization
    • Added translated labels, guidance, accessibility text, and error messages for transcript editing across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved caption timing and playback behavior around inserted words and pauses.

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The change adds immutable transcript word correction, synthesized-word insertion and removal, provenance metadata, inserted pause ranges, expanded playback timing, agent tools, transcript-pane controls, timeline markers, retranscription carry-over, and localized UI strings.

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Transcript editing and inserted playback

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Transcript editing document model
src/lib/ai-edition/schema/index.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcript.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/transcriptionStore.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/*.test.ts
Adds word provenance, transcript correction, synthesized-word insertion and removal, insert-range maintenance, mirror synchronization, and retranscription carry-over.
Inserted-time playback and caption projection
src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/*, src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/captions/cues.ts, src/native/*
Projects inserted ranges onto the ruler, emits held playback segments, updates captions and timeline mapping, and parks native playback during held frames.
Transcript editor integration and UI
src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/Preview*.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/*, src/i18n/locales/*
Adds queued word-edit handlers, inline correction and insertion controls, synthesized-word removal and revert actions, inserted-time preview wiring, timeline markers, and translations.
Agent transcript tools
electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts, electron/ai-edition/deep-agent/service.ts, electron/ai-edition/*test.ts
Adds getTranscriptWords and consent-gated setWordText tools with range filtering, provenance output, validation, and executor tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0ea2f

Inserted pauses can currently desynchronize playback, distort timeline interactions, hide captions, disappear at trim boundaries, or become stale after re-transcription; word editing also has incorrect behavior for some invalid or legacy transcript data. These are concrete correctness issues affecting playback, captions, persisted edits, and agent-assisted editing, so the PR should not merge until they are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant TranscriptPane
  participant NewEditorShell
  participant TranscriptDocument
  participant Preview
  participant NativePlayback
  User->>TranscriptPane: edit or insert transcript word
  TranscriptPane->>NewEditorShell: submit word operation
  NewEditorShell->>TranscriptDocument: update transcript and insertRanges
  NewEditorShell->>Preview: pass updated insertRanges
  Preview->>NativePlayback: resolve held playback timing
  NativePlayback->>NativePlayback: hold source frame during inserted pause
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`setWordText` gave the transcript a way to be corrected, but nothing said a
word had been. Two consequences: a transcription run REPLACES the asset's
transcript, so a user who fixed twenty proper nouns and regenerated lost all
twenty without a word about it; and there was no revert, because nothing kept
what the transcriber had originally said.

`wordSchema` gains the pair that fixes both — `originalText`, captured the
first time a user rewrites the word and never overwritten afterwards, and
`source`, which also reserves the `"synth"` value a word with no audio behind
it will need. Both optional and absent from every document written before them,
like `cameraTrack.width`: additive, so no schema bump. `document/transcript.ts`
is their only writer and keeps them consistent — typing the original back
clears the pair, which IS the revert.

`carryOverWordEdits` then re-applies the corrections onto a fresh transcript,
and the transcription store calls it on the one path where a run lands. The
match is deliberately strict: same original text, overlapping span, one new word
per correction. A correction is carried only when the run reproduced the very
same mistake at the very same moment, so re-transcribing in another language
carries nothing rather than stamping the old language's corrections onto the new
words. What could not be carried is counted, not guessed at — saying so to the
user needs a string in thirteen locales and belongs with the editing UI, so for
now it is a warning in the log.

`withTranscript` moves here from `transcribe.ts` and gains `setDocumentWordText`
beside it. The document carries the same transcript twice (the per-asset entry
and the legacy `transcript` mirror), and writing one without the other leaves
the mirror serving pre-edit text forever — the failure that closed #469. It is a
pure document operation; the Whisper adapter was not the place to look for it.
The transcript pane looked like a document and behaved like one only halfway:
Backspace on a word wrote a trimRange and cut the media, while typing was
blocked outright — `handleBeforeInput` said so in a comment, and correcting a
mis-transcribed word had no in-app path at all.

The two gestures now share the one word stream, with no mode to remember and no
second tab: Backspace still cuts, and a double-click opens the word for editing
in place. Enter or a click away commits, Escape abandons. A correction writes
`transcript.words[].text` and nothing else — the captions follow it, the
timeline does not move. Everything the field raises is stopped at the field, so
a Backspace inside it types instead of cutting the clip out from under the
caret.

A corrected word says so: the accent colour, a dotted underline, and a tooltip
naming what the transcriber actually heard. Hovering it offers the revert, which
writes the original back through the same path that clears the provenance pair
— there is no second "unedit" operation that could fall out of step with the
first. It sits where the bin sits on a cut word, in the accent rather than the
danger colour, and the two never appear together.

Emptying a word is how a junk token leaves the captions without the audio going
with it, and the caption pipeline already drops empty words. Rendered as its own
text, though, such a word is a bare space: invisible, un-clickable, impossible
to undo. It gets a chip instead, so it keeps a place in the stream.

Writes go through `setDocumentWordText` on the same serialised queue as the
trims, so correcting a word and cutting the next one cannot overwrite each
other's save. Verified end to end in the browser preview: the edit lands on the
word, rebuilds its segment, reaches the legacy `document.transcript` mirror, and
the revert takes all three back.
The third gesture on the word stream, and the one that had to get past a guard.
Put the caret between two words, type, and a field opens beside the word you
were on; Enter turns it into a real word, in amber, marked `source: "synth"`.
It has no audio, so its own control deletes it rather than trimming — there is
nothing for a trim to remove — and Backspace over a run of nothing but inserts
does the same.

The guard it got past did not work. React 18 builds `onBeforeInput` from the
legacy `textInput` event, whose `TextEvent` has no `inputType`, so the block's
handler threw `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'startsWith')` on
every character typed, never reached its own `preventDefault`, and let the
character land in the contentEditable — the exact desynchronisation between the
DOM and `words` it was written to prevent. Confirmed in the browser before
touching it. It now listens to the native `beforeinput`, where the event really
is an `InputEvent`, ignoring what the two nested fields raise on their own.

An inserted word takes the silence it is dropped into and nothing else: from the
word it follows, up to what its text needs to be read at subtitle pace, and
never past the word that comes next. Between two words that run into each other
it has no duration at all and rides their caption line, which is where it reads
correctly anyway. Dropped into a pause it shortens the `[silence]` pill by
exactly what it took. That span is also the slot a synthesized voice will have
to fit, when there is one.

`wordsInRange` had to learn about a word with no span — an overlap test excludes
a point at either edge of the range, which silently lost every word inserted at
the very start of a clip — and `withSilenceGaps` now breaks the resulting tie on
array order rather than leaving it to sort stability nobody had written down.

A run also carries inserts forward now, not just corrections. They have no
original text to recognise, so time places them: each goes back after whatever
the new transcript ends last before it. `carryOverWordEdits` counts what it
could not place, as it already did for corrections.

Verified end to end in the browser preview: typing leaves the block's own text
untouched, the word lands in `words`, in `segment.wordIds`, in the rebuilt
segment text and in the legacy mirror, an insert into the silence shrinks the
pill from 2.6s to 2.2s, and deleting it puts the pill back.
…frame

Adding a word only borrowed whatever silence happened to be free, so a word
dropped between two words that run into each other got no time at all. It now
creates the time it needs: the clip splits at the word's edge and a held-frame
clip carries the deficit, so the timeline grows and everything downstream
shifts. Screen and webcam freeze together — both are derived from the one asset
source clock the freeze stops advancing — and the decoder is paused for the
duration rather than free-running past the held frame into what comes after.
That created span is the slot a synthesized voice will speak in.

The gesture is gated to dev builds until there is a voice to put in it. A silent
freeze frame is not a feature, and captions are not always on, so a release
build offers no way to add a word at all — the pane does not even advertise it.
Drop the gate in `openInsertion` when TTS lands.

Three things the split broke, found by running it rather than by reading it:

The captions went DARK over the pause. A line straddling the split was
ventilated once per half, each half carrying the whole line, so the caption
played, blinked out for exactly the pause the word exists for, then played again
from the top. A line covering the held moment now covers the pause too, and
spans that meet on the ruler coalesce — measured before and after: two cues of
"Bonjour on va parler de vraiment Kubernetes" became one, 0→3.9s.

The word rendered TWICE in the pane. The freeze claims it and the half that
starts at the same moment matched it as well. The freeze owns it: it is the
section the playhead is inside while the pause plays.

And one word turned one recording into three headed blocks, each announcing the
same filename over a sliver of timecode ("Clip 2 · 0:02.5—0:02.5"). Sections
that continue the one before — same media, meeting on both clocks — now flow
inline under a single header spanning the whole run. Two clips over one media
still get a header each, which is the case the header exists for.

The pane also says what its gestures are now: double-click corrects, Backspace
cuts, and (in dev) typing between two words adds one. They were invisible until
tried.

Tests cover the freeze end to end: the document split, playback keeping the
created time, the source clock held still through it, the pane showing the word
once, the header run, and the caption playing once straight through.

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Inline comments:
In `@electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts`:
- Around line 1276-1283: Update setWordText to resolve the transcript using the
same document.transcripts or legacy document.transcript lookup as
getTranscriptWords; if no transcript exists, return a missing-transcript
failure, and only report a missing word after a transcript has been found.
- Around line 1240-1243: Normalize the startSec/endSec pair before filtering
transcript.words in the span-selection flow: when parsed.data.startSec is
greater than parsed.data.endSec, swap the bounds so the interval is ordered.
Preserve the existing infinity defaults and filtering predicate, matching the
normalization behavior used by addTrim and addZoom.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptPane.wordInsert.test.tsx`:
- Line 229: Reformat the synthesized-word fixture in the test data around the
entry with id "synth_1" so it conforms to the 100-column lint limit, preserving
all field values and behavior.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx`:
- Line 466: In src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L466-L466, retain
separate raw and expanded durations, collapsing expanded pointer positions
before setCurrentTime; add tests in the same package for seeking inside and
after pauses. At src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1496-L1496,
position rulerTicks using pctOf(tick.sec) rather than pctAt(tick.sec), with a
test for tick placement after a pause. At
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1643-L1646, derive zero-duration
marker positions with expandRawSec at the word’s raw timeline position, and test
a marker after a pause.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 422-423: Update VirtualPreview’s resolvePlaybackSegments mapping
and related playback clock, seeking, boundary, and duration logic to use
insert-aware playbackClips, including heldSec segments from insertRanges,
instead of raw clips. Ensure decoder playback pauses for each heldSec segment
and preserve correct timing when playing, seeking across, or ending at inserted
ranges; add coverage for playback and seeking across an inserted range.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/captions/captions.test.ts`:
- Around line 698-700: Update the test “is unchanged when the project has no
pauses” to compare the pause-free fixture’s derived cues with the result using
an explicit empty insertRanges value, rather than calling deriveCaptionCues with
identical arguments on both sides. Ensure the assertion exercises the
inserts.length === 0 fast path in sourceSpanToTimelineSpans.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/captions/cues.ts`:
- Line 182: Update the end-time expansion in the cue construction around
expandRawSec so a span.endSec equal to insert.atRawSec includes the inserted
pause, while preserving exclusive start-time expansion. Add a caption test
covering a line that ends exactly at the inserted pause.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts`:
- Around line 237-238: Update the interval filter around range.atSec and
iv.startSec so an interval beginning exactly at the trim boundary is included,
while preserving the existing end-bound behavior. Add a regression case covering
a trim that ends at the insert time and verifies the held segment is emitted.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/store/transcriptionStore.ts`:
- Around line 408-411: Update the merge path around carryOverWordEdits so the
resulting transcript and timeline.insertRanges are reconciled together through
the document-level helper, rather than saving only via withTranscript. Ensure
changed, removed, and newly carried words receive updated ranges and obsolete
ranges are removed.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts`:
- Around line 406-411: Update resolveNativePosition and the surrounding timeline
mapping to use derived playback positions that include cumulative prior hold
durations, rather than the raw source start from getRawVirtualStartTime;
preserve raw-coordinate mapping for authored regions and add a regression test
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  • src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
  • src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/status.test.ts
  • src/native/sceneDescription.test.ts
  • src/native/sceneDescription.ts
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Comment on lines +1240 to +1243
const from = parsed.data.startSec ?? Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
const to = parsed.data.endSec ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
const words = transcript.words
.filter((word) => word.endSec >= from && word.startSec <= to)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize an inverted span before filtering.

from and to are used exactly as given. If the model passes startSec: 5 with endSec: 2, the predicate can never hold and the tool answers returned: 0 with ok: true. The model then reads that as "no words in this passage". Every other span-taking tool in this file normalizes the pair first (see addTrim at Line 1323 and addZoom at Line 1582).

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-			const from = parsed.data.startSec ?? Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
-			const to = parsed.data.endSec ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+			const requestedFrom = parsed.data.startSec ?? Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+			const requestedTo = parsed.data.endSec ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+			const from = Math.min(requestedFrom, requestedTo);
+			const to = Math.max(requestedFrom, requestedTo);
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const from = parsed.data.startSec ?? Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
const to = parsed.data.endSec ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
const words = transcript.words
.filter((word) => word.endSec >= from && word.startSec <= to)
const requestedFrom = parsed.data.startSec ?? Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
const requestedTo = parsed.data.endSec ?? Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
const from = Math.min(requestedFrom, requestedTo);
const to = Math.max(requestedFrom, requestedTo);
const words = transcript.words
.filter((word) => word.endSec >= from && word.startSec <= to)
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In `@electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts` around lines 1240 - 1243, Normalize the
startSec/endSec pair before filtering transcript.words in the span-selection
flow: when parsed.data.startSec is greater than parsed.data.endSec, swap the
bounds so the interval is ordered. Preserve the existing infinity defaults and
filtering predicate, matching the normalization behavior used by addTrim and
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Comment on lines +1276 to +1283
const transcript = document.transcripts.find((t) => t.assetId === assetId);
const before = transcript?.words.find((word) => word.id === wordId);
if (!before) {
return failure(
`No word ${wordId} in the transcript for asset ${assetId}. ` +
`Call getTranscriptWords to read the ids.`,
);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report a missing transcript instead of blaming the word id.

getTranscriptWords resolves the transcript from document.transcripts or the legacy document.transcript mirror (Line 1234-1236). setWordText reads document.transcripts only. On a document that carries the transcript only in the legacy mirror, the read hands out ids and the write answers No word <id> in the transcript for asset <assetId>. Call getTranscriptWords to read the ids. The instruction points the model back at the tool that just supplied that exact id, so the model retries a call that cannot succeed.

Separate the two failures so the message names the real cause.

🛠️ Proposed fix
 			const transcript = document.transcripts.find((t) => t.assetId === assetId);
+			if (!transcript) {
+				return failure(`No transcript for asset ${assetId} — there is nothing to correct.`);
+			}
-			const before = transcript?.words.find((word) => word.id === wordId);
+			const before = transcript.words.find((word) => word.id === wordId);
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const transcript = document.transcripts.find((t) => t.assetId === assetId);
const before = transcript?.words.find((word) => word.id === wordId);
if (!before) {
return failure(
`No word ${wordId} in the transcript for asset ${assetId}. ` +
`Call getTranscriptWords to read the ids.`,
);
}
const transcript = document.transcripts.find((t) => t.assetId === assetId);
if (!transcript) {
return failure(`No transcript for asset ${assetId} — there is nothing to correct.`);
}
const before = transcript.words.find((word) => word.id === wordId);
if (!before) {
return failure(
`No word ${wordId} in the transcript for asset ${assetId}. ` +
`Call getTranscriptWords to read the ids.`,
);
}
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In `@electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts` around lines 1276 - 1283, Update
setWordText to resolve the transcript using the same document.transcripts or
legacy document.transcript lookup as getTranscriptWords; if no transcript
exists, return a missing-transcript failure, and only report a missing word
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describe("a word that was inserted", () => {
const INSERTED: AxcutWord[] = [
WORDS[0],
{ id: "synth_1", segmentId: "s", startSec: 1, endSec: 1, text: "vraiment", source: "synth" },

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Format the synthesized-word fixture.

Line 229 exceeds the 100-column limit. Run npm run lint:fix before commit.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptPane.wordInsert.test.tsx` at line 229,
Reformat the synthesized-word fixture in the test data around the entry with id
"synth_1" so it conforms to the 100-column lint limit, preserving all field
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Source: Coding guidelines

Math.max(
1,
clips.reduce((m, c) => Math.max(m, c.timelineEndSec), 0),
clips.reduce((m, c) => Math.max(m, c.timelineEndSec), 0) + totalInsertedSec(inserts),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep raw seconds and expanded ruler seconds separate.

total now includes inserted pauses, but pointer seeking still sends pct * total to setCurrentTime, which uses stored raw seconds. A click inside or after an inserted pause seeks too far into the source media.

rulerTicks are generated from the expanded total, then Line 1496 expands each tick again. Ticks after a pause shift right, and later ticks can render past the ruler end.

A zero-duration inserted-word marker after another pause also uses raw atPct inside an expanded clip box, so it renders before its transcript time.

  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L466-L466: retain a raw duration for stored-time interactions and collapse expanded pointer positions before setCurrentTime.
  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1496-L1496: position expanded tick values with pctOf(tick.sec), not pctAt(tick.sec).
  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1643-L1646: derive no-pause marker positions from expandRawSec at the word’s raw timeline position.

Add tests for seeking inside and after a pause, tick placement after a pause, and a zero-duration marker after a pause. As per coding guidelines, “Add a test for every new behavior in the same package as the code under test.”

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  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L466-L466 (this comment)
  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1496-L1496
  • src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1643-L1646
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx` at line 466, In
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L466-L466, retain separate raw and
expanded durations, collapsing expanded pointer positions before setCurrentTime;
add tests in the same package for seeking inside and after pauses. At
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1496-L1496, position rulerTicks
using pctOf(tick.sec) rather than pctAt(tick.sec), with a test for tick
placement after a pause. At
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx#L1643-L1646, derive zero-duration
marker positions with expandRawSec at the word’s raw timeline position, and test
a marker after a pause.

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Source: Coding guidelines

Comment on lines +422 to +423
() => resolvePlaybackSegments(clips, trimRanges, insertRanges),
[clips, trimRanges, insertRanges],

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use expanded timeline mapping for inserted pauses.

insertRanges now creates heldSec segments in playbackClips, but the preview still computes duration and position mapping from raw clips. It also has no path that pauses the decoder for heldSec. When playback reaches an inserted word, the preview can skip the pause, and seeking or ending still uses the pre-insertion duration.

Use the insert-aware segments for the preview clock, seeking, boundary handling, and duration. Add a test that plays and seeks across an inserted range.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx` around lines 422 - 423, Update
VirtualPreview’s resolvePlaybackSegments mapping and related playback clock,
seeking, boundary, and duration logic to use insert-aware playbackClips,
including heldSec segments from insertRanges, instead of raw clips. Ensure
decoder playback pauses for each heldSec segment and preserve correct timing
when playing, seeking across, or ending at inserted ranges; add coverage for
playback and seeking across an inserted range.

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Comment on lines +698 to +700
it("is unchanged when the project has no pauses", () => {
expect(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {})).toEqual(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {}));
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

This assertion cannot fail.

Both sides of the expect call the same function with the same pause-free fixture, so the test passes for any implementation of deriveCaptionCues. It does not check that an absent or empty insertRanges is a no-op.

Compare the pause-free fixture against an explicit empty insertRanges instead. That pins the inserts.length === 0 fast path in sourceSpanToTimelineSpans.

💚 Proposed fix
 	it("is unchanged when the project has no pauses", () => {
-		expect(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {})).toEqual(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {}));
+		const base = doc();
+		const explicitlyEmpty: AxcutDocument = {
+			...base,
+			timeline: { ...base.timeline, insertRanges: [] },
+		};
+		expect(deriveCaptionCues(explicitlyEmpty, ON, {})).toEqual(deriveCaptionCues(base, ON, {}));
 	});
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it("is unchanged when the project has no pauses", () => {
expect(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {})).toEqual(deriveCaptionCues(doc(), ON, {}));
});
it("is unchanged when the project has no pauses", () => {
const base = doc();
const explicitlyEmpty: AxcutDocument = {
...base,
timeline: { ...base.timeline, insertRanges: [] },
};
expect(deriveCaptionCues(explicitlyEmpty, ON, {})).toEqual(deriveCaptionCues(base, ON, {}));
});
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/captions/captions.test.ts` around lines 698 - 700, Update
the test “is unchanged when the project has no pauses” to compare the pause-free
fixture’s derived cues with the result using an explicit empty insertRanges
value, rather than calling deriveCaptionCues with identical arguments on both
sides. Ensure the assertion exercises the inserts.length === 0 fast path in
sourceSpanToTimelineSpans.

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if (inserts.length === 0) return out;
return out.map((span) => ({
startSec: expandRawSec(span.startSec, inserts),
endSec: expandRawSec(span.endSec, inserts),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Expand caption end times inclusively at pause boundaries.

When span.endSec equals insert.atRawSec, expandRawSec does not add the pause because it uses a strict < comparison. The caption then disappears for the inserted-word hold.

Keep start-time expansion exclusive, but expand end times inclusively. Add a caption test where a line ends at the inserted pause.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/lib/ai-edition/captions/cues.ts` at line 182, Update the end-time
expansion in the cue construction around expandRawSec so a span.endSec equal to
insert.atRawSec includes the inserted pause, while preserving exclusive
start-time expansion. Add a caption test covering a line that ends exactly at
the inserted pause.

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Comment on lines +237 to +238
range.atSec > iv.startSec + 1e-6 &&
range.atSec <= iv.endSec + 1e-6,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve a pause at the start of a kept interval.

When a trim ends at range.atSec, the kept interval starts at that same time. The strict lower bound excludes the insert, so no held segment is emitted. This makes the inserted-word pause disappear after a leading trim.

Include the interval start in this filter. Add a regression case for a trim ending at the insert time.

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-						range.atSec > iv.startSec + 1e-6 &&
+						range.atSec >= iv.startSec - 1e-6 &&
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range.atSec > iv.startSec + 1e-6 &&
range.atSec <= iv.endSec + 1e-6,
range.atSec >= iv.startSec - 1e-6 &&
range.atSec <= iv.endSec + 1e-6,
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In `@src/lib/ai-edition/document/timeline.ts` around lines 237 - 238, Update the
interval filter around range.atSec and iv.startSec so an interval beginning
exactly at the trim boundary is included, while preserving the existing
end-bound behavior. Add a regression case covering a trim that ends at the
insert time and verifies the held segment is emitted.

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Comment on lines +408 to +411
const merged = carryOverWordEdits(
current.transcripts.find((t) => t.assetId === assetId),
transcript,
);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Reconcile timeline.insertRanges after carrying over word edits.

carryOverWordEdits inserts source: "synth" words into the returned transcript with timings recalculated from the new transcript. This path saves the result through withTranscript but does not call withInsertRangesForWords, the only function that updates ranges for changed, removed, or newly carried words. Stored ranges can therefore keep stale positions, remain orphaned, or preserve pauses that the new timing no longer needs. Route this merge through a document-level helper that also reconciles timeline.insertRanges.

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Update the merge path around carryOverWordEdits so the resulting transcript and
timeline.insertRanges are reconciled together through the document-level helper,
rather than saving only via withTranscript. Ensure changed, removed, and newly
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Comment thread src/lib/ai-edition/timeline/timelineMap.ts
Splitting the clip to make room for an inserted word did not survive the rest of
the app. A project saved after two inserts came back with one clip named
`clip_..._fzA_fzA` — split twice, both freezes and both after-halves gone, the
full source range restored onto the mangled id — and zero synthesized words. The
inserted text was lost on save, and the held-frame clips that did exist were
skipped in playback.

That is not a bug to chase. Clip surgery for a caption-only feature puts the
timeline's shape under the transcript's control, and every other writer of
`timeline.clips` — the duration probe, the recording import, resequencing — is
entitled to disagree with it. `frozenSec` goes with it, and so do the readers
that had to special-case a clip whose source window is a single point: the
playback segments, the raw span, the native position clamp, the decoder pause,
the caption ventilation, and the pane's split-clip header run.

What stays is the part that was always true on its own: an inserted word is a
word in the transcript with `source: "synth"`, it borrows whatever silence is
free where it lands, and it reaches the captions. The gesture stays dev-gated —
now for a second reason, since without created time an inserted word can only
speak inside a pause that already exists.

Creating time is still the right answer once there is a voice to put in it. It
belongs in a record of its own, beside `trimRanges`, which is the inverse
operation and the one shape the timeline already threads everywhere.
… new

An added word was visible only in the transcript pane. On the timeline — where
you decide what the film does — nothing said a moment carried text with no
audio behind it.

Each one now gets a thin amber tick on its clip's own track, at the moment it
sits on, carrying its text in the tooltip and seeking to it on click. Amber is
the colour the pane gives the same word, so the two read as one thing.

Derived, never stored: the mark is computed from the transcript's `synth` words
on every render, so there is no second record to fall out of step with the
first, and nothing for another writer of `timeline.clips` to lose. Positioning
is a percentage inside the clip's own box rather than an absolute ruler offset,
so a mark travels with its clip through a reorder without arithmetic of its own.
The agent could read the transcript and cut it, and that was all. Asked to fix a
misheard name — the request the whole transcript-editing feature exists for — it
had exactly one tool that touched a word, `addTrim`, which removes the audio
along with it. It would either do the destructive thing or say it had no tool,
while the app had had the operation for three commits.

`setWordText` writes `transcript.words[].text` through the same document
function the pane uses, so the captions follow and the timeline does not move.
Empty text blanks the word, which is how a junk token leaves the captions
without cutting the speech around it. It is registered as a mutating tool: it
writes the document, so it passes the consent gate like every other edit.

It needed a read to address anything. `getTranscript` answers in SEGMENTS, whose
ids live in a different namespace than the words and are refused by name — the
trap a model would fall into first, so the refusal says which read hands out the
right ones. `getTranscriptWords` is that read: id, text, span, and — only when
the word is not plain transcription — where it came from and what the
transcriber had originally heard. It takes a span, because a half-hour
transcript is ~70k tokens and fixing one name should cost one phrase.

Inserting a word is deliberately NOT exposed. The gesture is dev-gated in the UI
until a voice can be synthesized for it, and handing the model a tool for
something a release build refuses to do would be the same dead affordance the
pane was careful not to advertise.
Adding a word only ever borrowed the silence that happened to be free where it
landed, so a word dropped between two words that run into each other got no time
at all — nothing to see on the timeline, nothing for a voice to speak into.

The pause is now a record of its own: `timeline.insertRanges`, anchored in
source time, shaped like a trim and stored for the same reason. It is the
inverse operation, and a region is the one shape this timeline already carries
safely from end to end. The first attempt made CLIPS for it and lost both the
pauses and the words they belonged to, because every other writer of
`timeline.clips` — the duration probe, the recording import, resequencing — is
entitled to disagree with a clip it did not make.

Stored, but with one writer and one invariant. `withInsertRangesForWords` runs
after every word write and is the only thing that touches the array: it adds the
pause an added word needs, resizes one whose text changed length, and drops the
ones whose word is gone. `insertRangesMatchWords` is that same rule read back,
so a test holds the writer to it rather than trusting it. A pause under 50ms is
not stored at all — a few frames of held image is a stutter, not a slot.

`timeline/inserted-time.ts` is the arithmetic the readers will need, pure and on
its own: where a pause lands on the ruler once projected through the clip that
plays its moment, and the pair that converts between stored raw seconds and the
seconds the user actually scrubs. They are inverses everywhere except inside a
pause, where a stretch of ruler stands for one held source moment — so the
collapse answers with that moment AND says it is being held, which is what a
caller driving a decoder needs to park rather than seek.

Nothing reads it yet. The ruler, playback and the captions come next; this is
the record and the arithmetic they will share.
The record and the arithmetic existed; nothing consulted them, so the added time
was real in the document and invisible everywhere else. Now every reader that
measures the timeline measures the same expanded ruler.

Playback holds the frame. `resolvePlaybackSegments` cuts the kept span open at
each pause's moment and puts a held segment between the halves — the stream
plays up to that frame, stays on it, then carries on, which is what makes the
film longer. It carries `heldSec` on `PlaybackSegment`, a type that exists only
on the derived shape: nothing can write the field to a stored clip, which is the
whole structural difference from the attempt that made clips for this. A pause
whose moment a trim removed is never emitted — that moment is not in the film
any more, so neither is its pause.

The decoder holds with it. `resolveNativePosition` clamps the source clock
inside a held segment, and the transport pauses the native side for its
duration; free-running would play what comes after while the app clock, which
does traverse the pause, re-seeks on the drift and stutters. Screen and webcam
hold together because both derive from the one asset source clock the pause
stops advancing.

The ruler counts it. Total, ticks, clip boxes, lane pills and the playhead are
all placed through `expandRawSec`, so nothing drifts from anything else by the
added time. The amber mark on the clip becomes a BAND exactly as wide as the
time it bought — a word that fitted in silence already there adds nothing and
stays the hairline it was. Stored clip geometry is never rewritten for any of
this; only what is drawn moves.

The captions follow. Expanding both ends of a line's ruler span does the whole
job: a line after a pause slides along by it, and a line covering the held
moment has only its end pushed out, so it stays on screen through the pause
instead of going dark over the one moment an added word exists for.
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EtienneLescot force-pushed the feat/transcript-word-edits branch from 08b37ec to 0ea2f38 Compare September 2, 2026 13:25
EtienneLescot added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
#570 (word edits) and #569 (imported audio) both rewrite the transcript pane, and
#560's lane selector sits on top of both: the tab has to know which lane it reads
before a double-click can correct a word in it. Testing either alone stopped
being useful.

Merged rather than rebased. This branch already carries merge commits, so a
rebase flattens them and replays conflicts that were resolved weeks ago — which
is exactly what a first attempt did, re-adding a `MediaList` to LeftPanel that
`feat(editor): add audio from the timeline toolbar, not the media tab` had
deliberately taken out.

Where the two met:

  - The transcript pane. #570's `<Pane>` structure wins — it owns the gesture
    hint and the word-edit callbacks. #569 contributes the caption-settings
    action and the lane switch, which goes ABOVE the hint so the hint always
    describes the stream directly under it. The empty-state guard becomes
    `placements.length`, so it answers for the lane being read rather than for
    the recording.
  - The locale files. Merged as OBJECTS, not as text: both branches append keys
    to the same blocks, so every one of those 26 conflicts was a union git could
    not see, and hand-editing them is how a dropped comma or a doubled key gets
    in. `transcript.help` takes #570's copy — it is the one that mentions
    double-click, which now exists.
  - Fixtures. Each branch's pane tests learn the other's props, and the audio
    lane fixture gains `transcripts: []` for the amber added-word marks.
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