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The first successful Keystone capture
❯ 02:09:42 PM …/keystone-capture on main 2m49s
❯ ./bin/kscapture start
[OK]   Runtime started
[OK]   ASR server: http://localhost:8080/inference (whisper-large-v3-turbo)
[OK]   Recording from default microphone
       Press Ctrl+C to stop.
^C
[OK]   Stopping...
[OK]   State: Ready
       Audio: unknown
[OK]   Transcript: standalone:whisper-large-v3-turbo
[OK]   Session stopped cleanly

⏺ Bash(./bin/kscapture transcript 2>&1)
  ⎿  1m 38s | 33 spans | ~489 words

     [19:11:19] [BLANK_AUDIO]
     [19:11:19] [BLANK_AUDIO]
     [19:11:19] Recording.
     [19:11:19] [BLANK_AUDIO]
     [19:11:19] Consider again that dot that's here.
      That's home.
     [19:11:20] That's us.
     [19:11:20] On it, everyone you love, everyone you know,
      everyone you ever heard of.
     [19:11:20] Every human being.
     [19:11:20] Whoever was lived out their lives.
     [19:11:21] the aggregate of our joy and suffering.
     [19:11:21] Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
      doctrines.
     [19:11:21] every hunter and forager, every known hero and coward,
      every creator and destroyer of civilization.
     [19:11:21] Every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every
      mother and father, hopeful
      child, inventor and explorer.
     [19:11:22] Every teacher of morals.
      Every corrupt politician.
      Every superstar. Every supreme leader.
      Every saint and sinner.
     [19:11:22] and the history of our species lived there.
     [19:11:22] on the mode of dust suspended into some beam.
     [19:11:22] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
     [19:11:23] Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals
      and emperors, so that in glory
      and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a
      fraction of a dot.
     [19:11:23] Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants
      of one corner of this pixel,
      on the scarcely indistinguishable inhabitants of some other
      corner.
     [19:11:23] How frequent their misunderstandings.
      How eager they are to kill one another.
      How fervent their hatreds, our posturings, our imagined
      self-importance.
     [19:11:24] delusion that we have some privileged position in the
      universe challenged by this pale point
      of light.
     [19:11:24] Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic
      dark.
      In our obscurity and all this vastness, there is no hint
      that help will come from elsewhere
      to save us from ourselves.
     [19:11:24] The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
      There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,
      to which our species could migrate.
      Visit, yes.
      Settle, not yet.
     [19:11:25] like it or not, for the moment. The Earth is where we make
      our stand.
     [19:11:25] [BLANK_AUDIO]
     [19:11:25] [BLANK_AUDIO]

     [19:11:25] [BLANK_AUDIO]
     [19:11:42] Consider again that dot that's here, that's home, that's us
     .
      On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you
      have ever heard of,
      every human being, whoever lived out their lives.
     [19:11:46] the aggregate of our joy and suffering.
     [19:12:02] Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
      doctrines.
      Every hunter and forager. Every hero and coward. Every
      creator and destroyer of
      civilization. Every king and present.
     [19:12:35] Every young couple in love, every mother and father,
      hopeful child, inventor and explorer,
      every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every
      superstar, every supreme leader, every
      saint and sinner in the history of our species lived.
      There on the mound of dust suspended in a sunbeam, the
      earth is a very small stage in
      a vast cosmic arena.
     [19:12:57] The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
      There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to
      which our species could migrate.
      Visit yes.
      Settle not yet.
      Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make
      our stand.
     [19:12:58] [BLANK_AUDIO]

⏺ [Opus 4.6] It works. Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot — transcribed from your voice, chunked
  by silence, stored in the catalog, displayed with timestamps.

  489 words across 33 spans. The chunking is working (silence boundaries
  producing readable paragraphs). Word accuracy looks solid. A few minor ASR
  artifacts ("mode of dust" instead of "mote of dust", "present" instead of
  "peasant") but that's typical for Whisper small.

  The timestamps cluster around 19:11 for what looks like a fast initial batch,
  then spread out naturally for the live portion. The [BLANK_AUDIO] spans
  correctly mark silence.
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