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zooqueen ae80da5998 refactor(media-use): resolve every media type through api.hanzo.ai
Voice is POST /v1/audio/speech and word timings come from
POST /v1/audio/transcriptions over the rendered audio. Music, sound
effects, images, and video generate through /v1/audio/music,
/v1/audio/foley, /v1/images/generations, and /v1/videos/generations. The
shared catalog is a listing under media/<type>/ in our own object store,
browsed through /v1/s3 — an empty prefix reports itself as empty rather
than reading as a bad query.

One client (scripts/lib/api.mjs) holds every route and the one credential:
a Hanzo IAM token in $HANZO_API_KEY, read from Hanzo KMS. No credential
file, no per-repo .env, no per-provider CLI to install or keep current.
$HANZO_BASE_URL points the same code at a local Hanzo Engine.

Word timings are passed through, never interpolated: a caption cut on
invented boundaries reads as correct and drifts against the voice. When
the service returns text without them, the word array is empty and the
caller is told.

Deletes the provider cascade this replaces, its model ladders, and the
account linking in telemetry — the install id stands alone.
2026-08-13 17:18:37 -07:00

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Transcription

Word-level timestamps from audio, through POST /v1/audio/transcriptions.

node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/transcribe.mjs --input audio.mp3
node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/transcribe.mjs --input video.mp4 --lang es
node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/transcribe.mjs --input audio.mp3 --out words.json --json

Language

--lang defaults to en and is sent as the request language. Pass the real language of the audio: a transcription asked for the wrong language returns translated text, which silently destroys the original. For mixed-language audio, name the one you want kept.

Model

--model defaults to whisper. whisper-small is the faster, smaller alternative. Both are served by our speech service; there is nothing to download and no first-run build.

Output shape

A flat array of word objects. The id (w0, w1, …) is added during normalization so caption overrides have a stable reference.

{
  "text": "Hello world.",
  "words": [
    { "text": "Hello", "start": 0.0, "end": 0.5 },
    { "text": "world.", "start": 0.6, "end": 1.2 }
  ]
}

words is empty when the service returns text without per-word timings, and the command says so on stderr. Nothing is interpolated to fill the gap. Callers that need per-word cuts should treat an empty words as "captions fall back to line timing", not as a failed transcription.

For caption-quality checks and retry rules, see captions/transcript-handling.md.