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Summary

On the first transcription after app launch, whisper-stt-server does one-time work (fetching the model on first run, then loading it and warming the backend) that can take minutes. The boolean spinners in the editor — the Captions button, the Transcript pane header, and the Source-transcript modal — label that whole wait as transcribing, and the media stage calls all of it downloading even once the file is on disk; either way the first-run wait reads as a hang.

The transcription state already carries a phase (loading-model vs transcribing), and the phase-to-copy mapping lives in one shared hook — but only the media stage and the left panel's status dot consumed it. This change:

  • routes the three boolean spinner surfaces (Captions pane, Transcript pane, Source-transcript modal) through a small transcriptionBusyLabel helper on top of that shared mapping, so their busy copy comes from the phase instead of a flat "Transcribing" — the shape the issue asks for ("the state itself should carry the phase, not just pending");
  • splits the loading-model copy in the shared mapping: while model bytes are still arriving it stays "Downloading speech model", and once the file is on disk but the engine is still initializing it shows the new "Starting speech model" string (editor.initializingModel, added to every locale) — every consumer of the mapping benefits;
  • passes the live transcription view into the Source-transcript modal so its status chip, spinner, and hint text use the same phase-aware label;
  • removes the captions.transcribing locale key, which is unused after this change, and updates the two gating tests that asserted the old flat labels.

Related issue

Fixes #334

Type of change

  • Bug fix

Release impact

  • Patch

Desktop impact

  • Not platform-specific

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Text description in place of screenshots: on a cold start, the Captions button, the Transcript pane header, and the Source-transcript modal all show "Starting speech model" for the duration of the model load, then flip to the transcribing label once the engine reports actual transcription. On a warm engine the spinner goes straight to transcribing.

Testing

  • npx vitest run over the touched component suites (transcriptionBusyLabel, TranscriptionStatus, CaptionsPane.gating, TranscriptPane.gating) at this branch's head: 4 files, 18 passed; the touched store/status suites (document/transcribe, transcription/status): 2 files, 48 passed.
  • npx tsc --noEmit and npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit at this branch's head: clean.

Manual verification on Windows 11, on an earlier revision of this series carrying this change: with a fresh user-data directory (real model download and cold engine load), every visible spinner surface showed the download phase, then the initializing phase, then transcribing; a second transcription in the same session showed transcribing immediately. The spinner surfaces outside the Edit dialog are byte-identical between that revision and this branch; the Source-transcript modal differs there by the sibling crop-preview change and by dropping a synthesized fallback view that revision still carried.

Scope note: pane-level busy labels are timeline-scoped — resolved over the same asset set the enablement gates read (with the whole-bin fallback while the timeline is empty) — so a job on a bin-only asset cannot relabel a control the gate keeps enabled. An earlier revision of this description claimed a label/gate scope mismatch predates this branch; that was incorrect, and the mismatch this branch briefly introduced is fixed in the follow-up commit.

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  • New Features

    • Added clearer transcription progress statuses, including speech-model initialization and download progress.
    • Transcription labels now update dynamically across captions, transcript panes, buttons, and empty states.
    • Added localized “Starting speech model” messaging across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Transcription activity now reflects only assets on the timeline, preventing unrelated jobs from disabling or relabeling retry controls.
    • Retry buttons remain available for timeline assets when another asset is processing.

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Walkthrough

The transcription pipeline now reports model initialization and download progress. Timeline-scoped busy views drive phase-specific labels in captions, transcript panes, and the media stage. Locales and tests cover the new status behavior.

Changes

Transcription status visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Status pipeline and busy-view selection
src/lib/captioning/transcribe.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/transcriptionStore.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/status.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/transcription/*.test.ts
Model-loading status now includes download byte progress. Busy-view selection can be limited to timeline assets.
Phase-specific label helpers
src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptionStatus.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/transcriptionBusyLabel.ts, src/components/ai-edition/*Status.test.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/transcriptionBusyLabel.test.ts
Loading-model status uses initialization copy without active download progress and downloading copy when progress is in flight.
Shared labels across editor surfaces
src/components/ai-edition/CaptionsPane.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/v4/MediaStage.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/*gating.test.tsx
Captions and transcript controls render timeline-scoped busy labels. Off-timeline transcription jobs no longer relabel timeline controls.
Localized copy and validation
src/i18n/locales/*/editor.json, src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json
Editor locales add initializingModel. Obsolete captions.transcribing and unused editor locale keys are removed.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 564b3

The change only makes transcription progress labels phase-aware while preserving the existing transcription flow; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SpeechModel
  participant transcribeAsset
  participant transcriptionStore
  participant NewEditorShell
  participant TranscriptPane
  SpeechModel->>transcribeAsset: report loading-model and download progress
  transcribeAsset->>transcriptionStore: forward status fields
  transcriptionStore->>NewEditorShell: expose asset transcription views
  NewEditorShell->>TranscriptPane: pass timeline busy view
  TranscriptPane->>TranscriptPane: render initializing or downloading label
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: transcription indicators now distinguish model initialization from active transcription.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the repository template. It includes the summary, issue reference, change type, release impact, desktop impact, visual-change notes, and testing details.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #334 by exposing phase-aware transcription status across the Captions pane, Transcript pane, media stage, and Source-transcript modal. The implementation also preserves timel…
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The changes address issue #334 by exposing phase-aware transcription status across the Captions pane, Transcript pane, media stage, and Source-transcript modal. The implementation also preserves timeline-scoped behavior and adds supporting tests.

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Most changes support issue #334, but removing the unrelated leftPanel and leftRail locale blocks, along with several obsolete mediaStage keys, is not required by the linked issue or stated PR objective.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/CaptionsPane.tsx`:
- Line 246: Update the existing-transcript rendering branch in CaptionsPane so
it displays busyLabel while transcript regeneration is in progress, even when
hasTranscript remains true; preserve the normal transcript UI when not busy and
use the existing status-label fallback behavior.
- Around line 105-110: Filter transcription views to
transcriptRelevantAssetIds(document) before passing them to firstBusyView, so
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Comment thread src/components/ai-edition/CaptionsPane.tsx
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Both points addressed in 02eb8f9:

  • Busy labels are now timeline-scoped through a shared firstTimelineBusyView helper — the same asset set the enablement gates read, with the empty-timeline whole-bin fallback preserved — so a job on a bin-only asset can no longer relabel a control the gate keeps enabled. Regression test added for exactly that case, plus scope tests for the helper.
  • The captions pane now shows the busy phase during a regeneration instead of the static cue count while the transcript is being replaced.

The PR description's scope note was corrected to match: the earlier claim that the label/gate scope mismatch predates this branch was wrong — label and gate now simply answer about the same assets.

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My-Denia force-pushed the fix/stt-transcription-phases branch from 02eb8f9 to 564b3ee Compare August 29, 2026 04:23
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