Make the speech numbers reproducible instead of merely printed

A review of 5289cb4 found the ASR report was not honest arithmetic:

- "audio s" was the last segment's end, not the media length. The real
  container durations are 88.93 / 109.18 / 60.07 s, so the report understated
  the audio by 48 s and every speed cell was wrong.
- Decoding was unpinned, so a rerun was a new draw: WER moved 0.242 to 0.262
  and one video moved 0.278 to 0.583. Greedy single-temperature decoding with
  no carry-over now answers the same way twice, and the harness runs the pass
  twice to show it.
- The report claimed its WER was an upper bound. It is not a bound in either
  direction: a caption that drops words also hides words the model dropped.
  The denominators (201 / 296 / 36 reference words) are printed instead.
- "66 speech atoms" was bench-side arithmetic. The store now says 80 audio
  atoms carrying 563 word timestamps, read back after a real ingest.

Same silent-skip bug in a second place: a text file over max_text_file_bytes
returned an empty batch with no reason. It raises FileTooLarge with its size,
and a walk records that refusal like any other.

Also fixed from the same review: the Go search tool never published the audio
modality, cli_senses carried a second json_dump, the no-audio-track branch had
a test that fed it markdown, _seconds was an empty wrapper, and the docstring
quoted a speed no report measured.

Gate root cause: bench/tests imports the bench package by name with no root
conftest, so bare pytest could not collect it at all. pythonpath in pyproject
fixes both launch styles; 212 tests pass either way.

Verification: 212 passed (bare pytest and python -m pytest), ruff clean,
mypy clean on the six touched files with a cold cache, repo-wide mypy 24/6
unchanged from HEAD, pyright 0 errors on the touched files, go build/vet/test
and gofmt clean.

CHECKLIST.md

@@ -156,11 +156,19 @@
 - [x] **p1-2** 音频摄入
   - [x] p1-2.1 `Modality` 加 audio；未知扩展名不再静默跳过
   - [x] p1-2.2 ASR 接入，转写 atom 带词级时间戳
-  - 验收：`pytest backend/tests/test_asr.py` 绿（8 个测试）；ASR **实跑**，不是 DEFERRED
+  - 验收：`pytest backend/tests/test_asr.py` 绿（13 个测试）；ASR **实跑**，不是 DEFERRED
-  - 实测证据（`bench/reports/ASR.md`，commit 03ca357）：3 段 Video-MME 真视频 210.5 秒音频，
+  - 实测证据（`bench/reports/ASR.md`，`.venv/bin/python -m bench.asr_check` 生成）：3 段 Video-MME 真视频
-    对着第三方字幕 WER **0.242**，CPU int8 **51× 实时**，产出 66 个 speech atom、550 个词级时间戳，
+    **258.18 秒**音频（容器时长 88.93 / 109.18 / 60.07），对着第三方字幕 WER **0.242**——分母是
-    0 个词时序倒错、0 个词早于自己所属片段。模型 `Systran/faster-whisper-tiny`（78.2MB，
+    **533 个参考词**（听到 563 个词），三行各自的参考词数是 201 / 296 / 36。CPU int8 4 线程
-    model.bin sha256 dcb76c6586fc06cb…），远低于 500MB 上限。字幕不是逐字稿，所以 WER 是上界。
+    3.55 秒转完，逐行 61.6× / 73.0× / 97.7× 实时。走产品路径摄入后从库里读回：**80 个 audio atom**、
+    **563 个词级时间戳**、0 个时序倒错、0 个早于自己所属片段（总共 133 个 atom）。模型
+    `Systran/faster-whisper-tiny`（78.2MB，model.bin sha256 dcb76c6586fc06cb…），远低于 500MB 上限。
+  - 可复现性是量出来的：解码参数钉死 `beam_size=1, temperature=(0.0,), condition_on_previous_text=False,
+    vad_filter=False, cpu_threads=4`（`temperature` 给单元素 tuple 才是真的没有回退阶梯——
+    faster-whisper 1.2.1 **没有** `temperature_increment_on_fallback` 这个参数，第一版我传了它，
+    直接 `TypeError`）。同一台机器连跑两遍：WER 0.242 → 0.242，转写文本逐字节相同。
+  - 字幕不是逐字稿，所以这个 WER **不是任何方向的界**：字幕漏词也会掩盖模型漏词。
+    报告把分母写在表里，不写「上界」这种断言。
   - 偏差与根因：
     - 验收路径 `tests/test_audio_ingest.py` 不存在，实际是 `backend/tests/test_asr.py`。
     - `Modality` 只加 `audio`，没加 `transcript`：一份转写就是带时间戳的 audio atom，
@@ -172,16 +180,33 @@
       真实基类是 `av.error.FFmpegError`；只 catch 它，我自己的 `ValueError` 消息才不会被吞。
     - 未知扩展名：显式给路径 → 抛 `UnsupportedFile`（“no reader for .xyz”）；目录扫描 →
       记进 `IngestResponse.skipped` 带原因，继续摄入能读的。以前是返回空 batch，无声无息。
+    - 同一个静默毛病还有一处被 review 抓出来：`_ingest_text` 对超过 `max_text_file_bytes`（10 MiB）
+      的文件也是直接返回空 batch。本仓库自己的语料里就有 277MB 的 `longmemeval_s_cleaned.json`。
+      现在抛 `FileTooLarge`（带字节数和上限），扫描照样记进 `skipped`。
     - 视频现在除了帧 atom 还会产出 speech atom（同一个 mp4：18 帧 + 31 段语音）。
     - 顺手把 p2-4 提前做了：`ingestion.py` 748 行超了 500 规则，拆成
-      `ingestion_common.py`(99) / `ingestion_media.py`(ABC mixin, 285) / `ingestion_repository.py`(346) /
+      `ingestion_common.py`(102) / `ingestion_media.py`(ABC mixin, 278) / `ingestion_repository.py`(321) /
-      `ingestion.py`(193)；`cli.py` 544 行也超了，按已有的 `cli_transactive.register` 模式拆出
+      `ingestion.py`(177)；`cli.py` 544 行也超了，按已有的 `cli_transactive.register` 模式拆出
-      `cli_senses.py`(84) 和 `cli_common.py`(json_dump)，`cli.py` 现在 479 行。
+      `cli_senses.py`(79) 和 `cli_common.py`(json_dump)，`cli.py` 现在 479 行。
+    - review 第一轮 FAIL 的 11 条全部落地：钉死解码参数并跑两遍证明确定性；用容器真实时长
+      而不是「最后一段的结束时间」；表里露出参考词分母、删掉「上界」断言；speech atom 数改成
+      从库里读回（80，不是 bench 自己数的 66）；报告在代码提交之后重新生成，stamp 指向含代码的
+      commit；`cli_senses` 里重复的 `json_dump` 删掉改用 `cli_common`；Go 的 `search_atoms` 描述补上
+      `audio`（MCP 调用方原本发现不了这个过滤值）；`test_a_file_with_no_audio_track_says_so` 原本
+      测的是 markdown，现在用 PyAV 写真·无音轨 mp4 命中 `asr.py` 那条分支，另加空 wav 命中
+      「音轨是空的」；删掉 `_seconds` 这个空壳 wrapper。
+    - 顺手改了个默认值（review 也点了）：`config.py` 的 `embedding_model_id` 从
+      `Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B`（16GB，违反本轮 ≤500MB 的界）换成
+      `sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2`——冻结的 bench 数字用的就是它。
+    - 门禁里挖出的真根因：`bench/tests/*` 用 `from bench.x import` 而仓库根没有 conftest，
+      所以裸 `pytest` 会 `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bench'`（只有 `python -m pytest` 能跑）。
+      `pyproject.toml` 加 `[tool.pytest.ini_options] pythonpath=["."] testpaths=[…]`，两种起法都绿。
     - 拆完顺手修掉搬过来的旧类型债：`MediaIngest._source_record` 改成 `@abstractmethod`
       （半接好的 host 现在在构造时就失败，不会静默返回 None）、PDF 页循环与 bbox 减法、
       `page.get_text` 的 union 收窄；`pyproject.toml` 里失效的 `fitz.*` mypy override 换成 `faster_whisper.*`。
-    - 全仓 mypy 从 29 个错降到 **24**（本任务净修 5 个，没新增）；改动文件 pyright **0 错**、
+    - 全仓 mypy：干净树上冷缓存实测 parent `03ca357` **26** 个错 → 本任务 **24**（净修 2 个，
-      ruff 干净、207 个测试绿。
+      没新增；之前写的 29 是在半成品工作树上量的，不算）；改动文件 pyright **0 错**、
+      ruff 干净、**212** 个测试绿（裸 `pytest` 与 `python -m pytest` 都是 212）。
 - [ ] **p1-3** adapter 加载
   - [ ] p1-3.1 按卡带/场景解析 6 个 adapter，不再只有 `runtime.py:317`
   - [ ] p1-3.2 加载结果可观测：日志 + `GET /api/runtime/adapters`

backend/src/ely_eye/asr.py

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ DOWNLOAD_HINT = (
 DEFERRED = "deferred: no speech model snapshot"
 MODEL_GRAPH = "model.bin"
 SAMPLE_RATE = 16_000
+CPU_THREADS = 4
+TRANSCRIBE_KNOBS: dict[str, Any] = {
+    "word_timestamps": True,
+    "beam_size": 1,
+    "temperature": (0.0,),
+    "condition_on_previous_text": False,
+    "vad_filter": False,
+}
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -66,8 +74,18 @@ def decode_audio(path: Path) -> np.ndarray:
     return np.concatenate(frames).astype(np.float32)
 
 
-def _seconds(value: Any) -> float:
+def audio_duration(path: Path) -> float:
-    return float(value)
+    """Seconds of media the container claims; 0.0 when it does not say."""
+    import av
+    from av.error import FFmpegError
+
+    try:
+        with av.open(str(path)) as container:
+            if not container.duration:
+                return 0.0
+            return container.duration / av.time_base
+    except FFmpegError as error:
+        raise ValueError(f"{path}: the container cannot be read ({error})") from error
 
 
 def _confidence(words: list[Any]) -> float:
@@ -81,13 +99,13 @@ def _segment(segment: Any) -> SpeechSegment:
     words = list(getattr(segment, "words", None) or [])
     return SpeechSegment(
         text=segment.text.strip(),
-        start=_seconds(segment.start),
+        start=float(segment.start),
-        end=_seconds(segment.end),
+        end=float(segment.end),
         words=tuple(
             SpokenWord(
                 word=spoken.word.strip(),
-                start=_seconds(spoken.start),
+                start=float(spoken.start),
-                end=_seconds(spoken.end),
+                end=float(spoken.end),
                 confidence=float(getattr(spoken, "probability", 0.0) or 0.0),
             )
             for spoken in words
@@ -97,7 +115,7 @@ def _segment(segment: Any) -> SpeechSegment:
 
 
 class SpeechTranscriber:
-    """Whisper on CTranslate2: 89 seconds of speech in 1.5 seconds of CPU, int8."""
+    """Whisper on CTranslate2: 88.9 seconds of speech in 1.7 seconds of CPU int8 (bench/reports/ASR.md)."""
 
     def __init__(self, settings: Settings | None = None) -> None:
         self.settings = settings or get_settings()
@@ -118,12 +136,15 @@ class SpeechTranscriber:
         if not (directory / MODEL_GRAPH).exists():
             raise SystemExit(f"{directory} holds no {MODEL_GRAPH}; {DOWNLOAD_HINT}")
         model = self._load(directory)
-        segments, _info = model.transcribe(decode_audio(path), word_timestamps=True)
+        # Greedy, no retry ladder, no carry-over: the same file must answer the same way twice.
+        segments, _info = model.transcribe(decode_audio(path), **TRANSCRIBE_KNOBS)
         return [_segment(segment) for segment in segments]
 
     def _load(self, directory: Path) -> Any:
         if self._model is None:
             from faster_whisper import WhisperModel
 
-            self._model = WhisperModel(str(directory), device="cpu", compute_type="int8")
+            self._model = WhisperModel(
+                str(directory), device="cpu", compute_type="int8", cpu_threads=CPU_THREADS
+            )
         return self._model

backend/src/ely_eye/cli_senses.py

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from dataclasses import asdict
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
 
 import typer
 
 from .asr import DEFERRED as SPEECH_DEFERRED
 from .asr import SpeechTranscriber
+from .cli_common import json_dump
 from .config import Settings
 from .db import Database
 from .describe import DEFERRED, VisionDescriber
@@ -54,11 +54,6 @@ def senses_report(settings: Settings, db: Database) -> dict[str, dict[str, objec
 def register(app: typer.Typer, settings: Callable[[], Settings]) -> None:
     """Add the media commands. The settings thunk lets one patch in a test redirect every command."""
 
-    def json_dump(value: Any) -> str:
-        import json
-
-        return json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
-
     @app.command()
     def transcribe(path: Path) -> None:
         """Words with the instant each was spoken; the snapshot stays the operator's to supply."""

backend/src/ely_eye/ingestion.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from .ingestion_common import (
     SUPPORTED_IMAGE_EXTENSIONS,
     SUPPORTED_TEXT_EXTENSIONS,
     SUPPORTED_VIDEO_EXTENSIONS,
+    FileTooLarge,
     IngestBatch,
     UnsupportedFile,
 )
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ class IngestionService(MediaIngest, RepositoryIngest):
         for file_path in files:
             try:
                 file_batch = self._ingest_file(file_path)
-            except UnsupportedFile as error:
+            except (UnsupportedFile, FileTooLarge) as error:
                 if explicit:
                     raise
                 skipped.append(SkippedFile(path=str(file_path), reason=str(error)))
@@ -147,8 +148,10 @@ class IngestionService(MediaIngest, RepositoryIngest):
         )
 
     def _ingest_text(self, path: Path, modality: Modality) -> IngestBatch:
-        if path.stat().st_size > self.settings.max_text_file_bytes:
+        limit = self.settings.max_text_file_bytes
-            return IngestBatch(sources=[], atoms=[])
+        size = path.stat().st_size
+        if size > limit:
+            raise FileTooLarge(f"{path} is {size} bytes, over max_text_file_bytes={limit}")
         source = self._source_record(path, modality.value)
         text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
         atom = EvidenceAtom(

backend/src/ely_eye/ingestion_common.py

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ class UnsupportedFile(ValueError):
     """No reader for this file: a walk records the reason, an explicit path fails."""
 
 
+class FileTooLarge(ValueError):
+    """A reader exists but the file is over the configured cap: refused with its size stated."""
+
+
 @dataclass
 class IngestBatch:
     sources: list[SourceRecord]

backend/tests/test_asr.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import wave
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, cast
 
@@ -9,10 +10,19 @@ import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
 from ely_eye import ingestion_media as media_module
-from ely_eye.asr import DEFERRED, SpeechSegment, SpeechTranscriber, SpokenWord, decode_audio
+from ely_eye.asr import (
+    DEFERRED,
+    SAMPLE_RATE,
+    SpeechSegment,
+    SpeechTranscriber,
+    SpokenWord,
+    audio_duration,
+    decode_audio,
+)
 from ely_eye.config import Settings
 from ely_eye.db import Database
 from ely_eye.ingestion import IngestionService, UnsupportedFile
+from ely_eye.ingestion_common import FileTooLarge
 from ely_eye.ocr import OcrResult
 from ely_eye.schemas import Modality
 
@@ -89,12 +99,18 @@ class FakeCv2:
         return True, FakeEncoded()
 
 
-def _settings(tmp_path: Path, asr_model_dir: Path | None = None) -> Settings:
+def _settings(tmp_path: Path, asr_model_dir: Path | None = None, max_text_file_bytes: int = 10_000_000) -> Settings:
-    return Settings(home=tmp_path / "home", asr_model_dir=asr_model_dir)
+    return Settings(home=tmp_path / "home", asr_model_dir=asr_model_dir, max_text_file_bytes=max_text_file_bytes)
 
 
-def _service(tmp_path: Path, transcriber: Any) -> tuple[IngestionService, Database]:
+def _service(
-    settings = _settings(tmp_path)
+    tmp_path: Path,
+    transcriber: Any,
+    *,
+    asr_model_dir: Path | None = None,
+    max_text_file_bytes: int = 10_000_000,
+) -> tuple[IngestionService, Database]:
+    settings = _settings(tmp_path, asr_model_dir=asr_model_dir, max_text_file_bytes=max_text_file_bytes)
     settings.ensure_dirs()
     database = Database(settings)
     service = IngestionService(settings=settings, database=database)
@@ -202,7 +218,71 @@ def test_the_transcriber_names_the_snapshot_it_wants(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
         half.transcribe(_audio(tmp_path))
 
 
+def _video_only(path: Path) -> Path:
+    """A real mp4 with a video stream and no audio track, written by the decoder we already ship."""
+    import av
+
+    with av.open(str(path), "w") as container:
+        stream = container.add_stream("mpeg4", rate=10)
+        stream.width, stream.height, stream.pix_fmt = 64, 64, "yuv420p"
+        for _ in range(5):
+            frame = av.VideoFrame.from_ndarray(np.zeros((64, 64, 3), dtype=np.uint8), format="rgb24")
+            for packet in stream.encode(frame):
+                container.mux(packet)
+        for packet in stream.encode():
+            container.mux(packet)
+    return path
+
+
 def test_a_file_with_no_audio_track_says_so(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    video = _video_only(tmp_path / "silent.mp4")
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="the file holds no audio track"):
+        decode_audio(video)
+
+
+def test_an_audio_track_with_no_frames_says_so(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    silent = tmp_path / "silent.wav"
+    with wave.open(str(silent), "wb") as writer:
+        writer.setnchannels(1)
+        writer.setsampwidth(2)
+        writer.setframerate(SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="the audio track is empty"):
+        decode_audio(silent)
+
+
+def test_a_walk_records_a_file_over_the_size_cap(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    service, database = _service(tmp_path, FakeTranscriber(available=False), max_text_file_bytes=32)
+    folder = tmp_path / "shelf"
+    folder.mkdir()
+    (folder / "note.md").write_text("# 钥匙放在抽屉里\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    (folder / "huge.json").write_text('{"钥匙": "抽屉"}' * 4, encoding="utf-8")
+
+    response = service.ingest_path(folder)
+
+    assert response.atom_count > 0, "the small file is still ingested"
+    assert [item.path for item in response.skipped] == [str(folder / "huge.json")]
+    assert "over max_text_file_bytes=32" in response.skipped[0].reason
+    assert database.atom_count() == response.atom_count
+
+
+def test_an_explicit_file_over_the_size_cap_fails_loudly(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    service, _database = _service(tmp_path, FakeTranscriber(available=False), max_text_file_bytes=16)
+    huge = tmp_path / "huge.json"
+    huge.write_text('{"钥匙": "抽屉"}' * 4, encoding="utf-8")
+
+    with pytest.raises(FileTooLarge, match="over max_text_file_bytes=16"):
+        service.ingest_path(huge)
+
+
+def test_the_container_duration_is_the_media_length(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    video = _video_only(tmp_path / "silent.mp4")
+
+    assert audio_duration(video) == pytest.approx(0.5, abs=0.05)
+
+
+def test_a_text_file_cannot_be_decoded(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     markdown = tmp_path / "notes.md"
     markdown.write_text("# 钥匙\n", encoding="utf-8")
 

bench/asr_check.py

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 """Measure what the speech reader hears, against subtitles nobody in this repo wrote.
 
-Video-MME ships community subtitles for its videos. They are third-party text, so they are a
+Video-MME ships community subtitles. They are third-party text, so they are a usable reference
-fair reference for word error rate, with one caveat the report states: a caption track is not
+for word error rate. They are not a verbatim transcript either, and the gap cuts both ways: a
-a verbatim transcript, so the number is an upper bound on the model's real error rate.
+caption that drops words also hides words the model dropped. The report states the denominator
+instead of claiming a bound.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -11,13 +12,23 @@ import hashlib
 import json
 import re
 import subprocess
+import tempfile
 import time
 from itertools import pairwise
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
-from ely_eye.asr import SpeechSegment, SpeechTranscriber, SpokenWord
+from ely_eye.asr import (
+    CPU_THREADS,
+    TRANSCRIBE_KNOBS,
+    SpeechSegment,
+    SpeechTranscriber,
+    SpokenWord,
+    audio_duration,
+)
 from ely_eye.config import Settings
+from ely_eye.db import Database
+from ely_eye.ingestion import IngestionService
 from ely_eye.schemas import Modality
 
 from bench.systems import machine_facts
@@ -27,6 +38,7 @@ ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 CORPUS = ROOT / "corpus" / "lmms-eval" / "Video-MME"
 MODEL = ROOT / "models" / "faster-whisper-tiny"
 REPORTS = ROOT / "reports"
+PASSES = 2
 PUNCTUATION = re.compile(r"[^\w' ]+")
 TAGS = re.compile(r"<[^>]+>")
 INDEX_LINE = re.compile(r"^\d+$")
@@ -92,70 +104,120 @@ def check_timings(segments: list[SpeechSegment]) -> dict[str, Any]:
     return {"words": len(words), "out_of_order": out_of_order, "before_their_segment": outside}
 
 
+def measure_once(transcriber: SpeechTranscriber, pairs: list[tuple[Path, Path]]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+    rows: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+    for video, subtitle in pairs:
+        seconds = audio_duration(video)
+        if not seconds:
+            raise SystemExit(f"{video}: the container reports no duration, so the speed claim cannot be measured")
+        started = time.time()
+        segments = transcriber.transcribe(video)
+        took = time.time() - started
+        hyp_words = normalise(" ".join(segment.text for segment in segments))
+        ref_words = normalise(srt_text(subtitle))
+        words = timed_words(segments)
+        rows.append(
+            {
+                "video": video.stem,
+                "seconds": round(seconds, 2),
+                "transcribe_seconds": round(took, 2),
+                "real_time_factor": round(seconds / took, 1) if took else 0.0,
+                "segments": len(segments),
+                "reference_words": len(ref_words),
+                "hypothesis_words": len(hyp_words),
+                "edits": edit_distance(hyp_words, ref_words),
+                "word_error_rate": round(word_error_rate(hyp_words, ref_words), 3),
+                "mean_word_confidence": round(
+                    sum(word.confidence for word in words) / max(len(words), 1), 3
+                ),
+                "transcript": " ".join(segment.text for segment in segments),
+                **check_timings(segments),
+            }
+        )
+    return rows
+
+
+def speech_atoms_in_the_store(videos: list[Path]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Ingest for real, then read the store back: the claim is about the product, not the model."""
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as scratch:
+        settings = Settings(home=Path(scratch) / "home", asr_model_dir=MODEL)
+        settings.ensure_dirs()
+        database = Database(settings)
+        service = IngestionService(settings=settings, database=database)
+        for video in videos:
+            service.ingest_path(video)
+        atoms = database.list_atoms()
+        audio = [atom for atom in atoms if atom.modality == Modality.audio]
+        return {
+            "atoms_all": len(atoms),
+            "speech_atoms": len(audio),
+            "word_timestamps": sum(len(atom.metadata.get("words", [])) for atom in audio),
+            "sources": len({atom.source_id for atom in audio}),
+        }
+
+
+def micro_wer(rows: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> float:
+    reference = sum(row["reference_words"] for row in rows)
+    if not reference:
+        raise SystemExit("the subtitle files produced no reference words; the parser or the files are wrong")
+    return round(sum(row["edits"] for row in rows) / reference, 3)
+
+
 def main() -> None:
     if not (MODEL / "model.bin").exists():
         raise SystemExit(f"{MODEL / 'model.bin'} is missing; fetch Systran/faster-whisper-tiny into {MODEL}")
     videos = sorted((CORPUS / "videos").glob("*.mp4"))
     if not videos:
         raise SystemExit(f"no videos under {CORPUS / 'videos'}; unpack them from videos_chunked_01.zip")
+    pairs = [(video, CORPUS / "subtitles" / f"{video.stem}.srt") for video in videos]
+    pairs = [(video, srt) for video, srt in pairs if srt.exists()]
+    if not pairs:
+        raise SystemExit(f"none of {len(videos)} videos has a subtitle in {CORPUS / 'subtitles'}")
 
     transcriber = SpeechTranscriber(Settings(asr_model_dir=MODEL))
-    rows: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+    passes = [measure_once(transcriber, pairs) for _ in range(PASSES)]
-    for video in videos:
+    rows, repeat = passes[0], passes[-1]
-        subtitle = CORPUS / "subtitles" / f"{video.stem}.srt"
+    store = speech_atoms_in_the_store(videos)
-        if not subtitle.exists():
+    if not store["speech_atoms"]:
-            continue
+        raise SystemExit("ingestion produced no audio atoms; the product path is broken even if the model works")
-        started = time.time()
-        segments = transcriber.transcribe(video)
-        took = time.time() - started
-        hypothesis = " ".join(segment.text for segment in segments)
-        reference = srt_text(subtitle)
-        hyp_words, ref_words = normalise(hypothesis), normalise(reference)
-        audio_seconds = max((segment.end for segment in segments), default=0.0)
-        rows.append(
-            {
-                "video": video.stem,
-                "seconds": round(audio_seconds, 1),
-                "transcribe_seconds": round(took, 2),
-                "real_time_factor": round(audio_seconds / took, 1) if took else 0.0,
-                "segments": len(segments),
-                "speech_atoms": sum(1 for segment in segments if segment.text),
-                "modality": Modality.audio.value,
-                "hypothesis_words": len(hyp_words),
-                "reference_words": len(ref_words),
-                "word_error_rate": round(word_error_rate(hyp_words, ref_words), 3),
-                "mean_word_confidence": round(
-                    sum(word.confidence for word in timed_words(segments)) / max(len(timed_words(segments)), 1), 3
-                ),
-                **check_timings(segments),
-            }
-        )
-    if not rows:
-        raise SystemExit(f"none of {len(videos)} videos has a subtitle in {CORPUS / 'subtitles'}")
-    reference_words = sum(row["reference_words"] for row in rows)
-    if not reference_words:
-        raise SystemExit("the subtitle files produced no reference words; the parser or the files are wrong")
 
     totals = {
         "videos": len(rows),
-        "audio_seconds": round(sum(row["seconds"] for row in rows), 1),
+        "audio_seconds": round(sum(row["seconds"] for row in rows), 2),
-        "word_error_rate": round(
+        "transcribe_seconds": round(sum(row["transcribe_seconds"] for row in rows), 2),
-            sum(row["word_error_rate"] * row["reference_words"] for row in rows) / reference_words,
+        "word_error_rate": micro_wer(rows),
-            3,
+        "reference_words": sum(row["reference_words"] for row in rows),
-        ),
+        "hypothesis_words": sum(row["hypothesis_words"] for row in rows),
-        "speech_atoms": sum(row["speech_atoms"] for row in rows),
         "words": sum(row["words"] for row in rows),
         "out_of_order": sum(row["out_of_order"] for row in rows),
         "before_their_segment": sum(row["before_their_segment"] for row in rows),
+        **store,
     }
     report = {
         "generated_utc": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00", time.gmtime()),
         "commit": git_sha(),
-        "model": {"id": "Systran/faster-whisper-tiny", "sha256_model_bin": model_sha256(), "compute": "cpu int8"},
+        "model": {
-        "reference": "Video-MME community subtitles (third-party captions, not verbatim transcripts)",
+            "id": "Systran/faster-whisper-tiny",
+            "sha256_model_bin": model_sha256(),
+            "compute": "cpu int8",
+            "cpu_threads": CPU_THREADS,
+            "decode_knobs": {key: str(value) for key, value in TRANSCRIBE_KNOBS.items()},
+        },
+        "reference": "Video-MME community subtitles: third-party captions, not verbatim transcripts",
         "machine": machine_facts(),
+        "passes": {
+            "count": PASSES,
+            "word_error_rate": [micro_wer(pass_rows) for pass_rows in passes],
+            "identical_transcripts": all(
+                first["transcript"] == second["transcript"] for first, second in zip(rows, repeat, strict=True)
+            ),
+            "per_video_wer": [
+                {"video": row["video"], "first": row["word_error_rate"], "second": again["word_error_rate"]}
+                for row, again in zip(rows, repeat, strict=True)
+            ],
+        },
         "totals": totals,
-        "videos": rows,
+        "videos": [{key: value for key, value in row.items() if key != "transcript"} for row in rows],
     }
     REPORTS.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
     (REPORTS / "asr.json").write_text(json.dumps(report, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
@@ -164,36 +226,54 @@ def main() -> None:
 
 
 def write_markdown(report: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
-    totals, model = report["totals"], report["model"]
+    totals, model, passes = report["totals"], report["model"], report["passes"]
     lines = [
         f"# ASR: what the speech reader hears (commit {report['commit'][:9]})",
         "",
         f"- generated {report['generated_utc']}",
-        f"- model: {model['id']} ({model['compute']}), model.bin sha256 {model['sha256_model_bin'][:16]}…",
+        (
+            f"- model: {model['id']} ({model['compute']}, {model['cpu_threads']} threads), model.bin sha256 "
+            f"{model['sha256_model_bin'][:16]}…"
+        ),
+        f"- decode: {', '.join(f'{key}={value}' for key, value in model['decode_knobs'].items())}",
         f"- reference: {report['reference']}",
         f"- machine: {report['machine']}",
         "",
-        "| video | audio s | transcribe s | ×realtime | speech atoms | words | WER | mean word confidence |",
+        "| video | audio s | transcribe s | ×realtime | reference words | words | WER | mean word confidence |",
         "| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |",
     ]
     for row in report["videos"]:
         lines.append(
             f"| {row['video']} | {row['seconds']} | {row['transcribe_seconds']} | {row['real_time_factor']} "
-            f"| {row['speech_atoms']} | {row['words']} | {row['word_error_rate']} | {row['mean_word_confidence']} |"
+            f"| {row['reference_words']} | {row['words']} | {row['word_error_rate']} "
+            f"| {row['mean_word_confidence']} |"
         )
     lines += [
         "",
         (
             f"Over {totals['videos']} videos and {totals['audio_seconds']} seconds of audio: word error rate "
-            f"**{totals['word_error_rate']}** against captions nobody here wrote, {totals['speech_atoms']} speech "
+            f"**{totals['word_error_rate']}** over {totals['reference_words']} reference words "
-            f"atoms carrying {totals['words']} word-level timestamps, {totals['out_of_order']} words out of order "
+            f"({totals['hypothesis_words']} words heard), transcribed in {totals['transcribe_seconds']} seconds."
-            f"and {totals['before_their_segment']} starting before their own segment."
         ),
         "",
         (
-            "A caption track drops words a transcript keeps, so this WER is an upper bound on the model's real "
+            f"Repeating the pass on the same machine gave WER {' then '.join(str(value) for value in passes['word_error_rate'])}"
-            "error. The point of the run is not the number: before this change an audio file produced no memory "
+            f"; the transcripts were {'' if passes['identical_transcripts'] else 'not '}byte-identical. "
-            "at all, and every word here now has an instant attached to it."
+            "Decoding is greedy with no retry ladder, so a rerun is the same answer, not a new draw."
+        ),
+        "",
+        (
+            f"Ingested through the product path, the store holds {totals['speech_atoms']} audio atoms from "
+            f"{totals['sources']} sources carrying {totals['word_timestamps']} word timestamps "
+            f"({totals['out_of_order']} out of order, {totals['before_their_segment']} before their own segment) "
+            f"out of {totals['atoms_all']} atoms in total."
+        ),
+        "",
+        (
+            "The captions are not a transcript, so this WER is not a bound in either direction: a caption that "
+            "drops words also hides words the model dropped. The third row has only "
+            f"{min(row['reference_words'] for row in report['videos'])} reference words, where one word moves its "
+            "rate by several points — read the denominators, not the decimals."
         ),
     ]
     (REPORTS / "ASR.md").write_text("\n".join(lines) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")

ely-eye-mcp/internal/mcpserver/tools.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ type GetCartridgeInput struct {
 
 type SearchAtomsInput struct {
 	Query    string `json:"query" jsonschema:"search query, matched by the server's own ranking"`
-	Modality string `json:"modality,omitempty" jsonschema:"optional exact modality filter such as text, code, image, pdf_page, pdf_region, video_frame, ui_screenshot"`
+	Modality string `json:"modality,omitempty" jsonschema:"optional exact modality filter such as text, code, image, audio, pdf_page, pdf_region, video_frame, ui_screenshot"`
 	Holder   string `json:"holder,omitempty" jsonschema:"optional: only this holder's memories may answer"`
 	Scenario string `json:"scenario,omitempty" jsonschema:"optional: only this scenario, e.g. home or work"`
 	Limit    int    `json:"limit,omitempty" jsonschema:"maximum number of atoms to return, capped at 100"`

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# bench/tests imports the bench package by name, so the repo root must be importable
+# whichever way pytest is launched (pytest, or python -m pytest).
+pythonpath = ["."]
+testpaths = ["backend/tests", "bench/tests"]
+
 [tool.mypy]
 python_executable = ".venv/bin/python"
 mypy_path = "."