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Draft follow-up to #540. This branch is intentionally stacked on feat/set-word-text; the three document-layer commits from #540 will disappear from this PR after #540 lands and this branch is rebased. Please review the UI direction first and do not merge this PR before #540.

Summary

  • Add explicit Transcript text and Cut selected video modes to the existing transcript pane.
  • Let users edit the clip's natural plain-text transcript projection while preserving every persisted wordId and word timing.
  • Map the smallest changed text range back onto the existing transcript words through feat(document): add immutable transcript word edits #540's setWordText document primitive; no new word rows are minted.
  • Serialize transcript saves with the existing document-write queue, preserve undo/redo history, synchronize the legacy primary transcript through withTranscript, and keep pending text safe across IME composition, mode changes, blur, transcription replacement, save failure, and unmount.
  • Keep Product: transcripts for imported audio — editing/subtitle source selectors, media panel gap #560's future recording/voiceover source selection out of scope; this only wires word correction into the single transcript pane.

Related issue

Closes #463

Depends on #540. Related to #560.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

Draft: verified in the real Electron editor on Windows. Add the final screenshot/video before marking ready for review.

Testing

  • npx vitest --run src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptPane.textEdit.test.tsx src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcript.test.ts src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.test.ts src/lib/ai-edition/store/transcriptTextEdit.test.ts src/lib/ai-edition/store/documentWriteAudit.test.ts — 99 passed
  • npx tsc --noEmit — passed
  • npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit — passed
  • npm run lint — passed (repository baseline warnings only; none in changed files)
  • npm run i18n:check — passed
  • npm run test — 190 files passed; 2308 tests passed, 5 skipped
  • Windows Electron smoke: transcript pane opened, cut mode rendered existing word/silence affordances, text mode rendered the editable plain-text projection and localized controls.

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Transcript text editing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transcript projection and replacement helpers
src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcript.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcript.test.ts
Adds immutable transcript editing helpers with CJK-aware spacing, paragraph projection, code-point offset mapping, validation, and replacement tests.
Transcript pane editing mode
src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptPane.textEdit.test.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json
Adds text and cut modes. Text mode supports editable projections, debounced persistence, IME input, plain-text paste, caret preservation, retries, flushes, and localized controls.
Document persistence and write auditing
src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx, src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.test.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/documentWriteAudit.test.ts
Queues transcript updates against the latest document, saves history-enabled changes, reports failures, and verifies transcript field updates and write auditing.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 607d8

Pending transcript edits can be lost or applied using stale project or transcript inputs during project changes or interrupted rendering. These persistence hazards should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Editor as NewEditorShell
  participant Pane as TranscriptPane
  participant Helpers as transcript helpers
  participant Queue as timeline-write queue
  Editor->>Pane: provide transcript edit callback
  Pane->>Helpers: project and replace selected text
  Pane->>Editor: send assetId, wordIds, and text
  Editor->>Queue: queue document save with history
  Queue-->>Editor: return save result
  Editor-->>Pane: update or revert editor state
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #463 by enabling direct transcript text editing, updating the transcript in place, and preserving existing word IDs and timings. The change also includes validation …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within scope for transcript text editing. UI mode selection, document helpers, persistence integration, tests, and localization support the stated objectives. The description explic…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding transcript text editing to the transcript pane.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and matches the repository template. It covers the summary, issue links, feature classification, release and desktop impact, testing, and draft status. The screenshots sect…
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The implementation satisfies issue #463 by enabling direct transcript text editing, updating the transcript in place, and preserving existing word IDs and timings. The change also includes validation and persistence behavior required by the PR objectives. [#463]

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The changes remain within scope for transcript text editing. UI mode selection, document helpers, persistence integration, tests, and localization support the stated objectives. The description explicitly excludes the future recording and voiceover source-selection work from #560.

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 7 files. (13 skipped: 13 unsupported.)

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The description is complete and matches the repository template. It covers the summary, issue links, feature classification, release and desktop impact, testing, and draft status. The screenshots section notes that final media is still pending, but this is non-critical for the current draft.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx`:
- Line 615: Update enqueueTimelineWrite and its deferred task to capture the
source projectId when scheduling, then compare it with the current project
before applying or persisting the document; reject the task when the project has
changed. Ensure the pane unmount flush uses this project-scoped callback rather
than allowing an unscoped write.

In `@src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx`:
- Around line 1006-1011: Move the six save-related ref assignments—modeRef,
committedTextRef, busyRef, assetIdRef, realWordIdsRef, and
onEditTranscriptTextRef—from render into a useLayoutEffect so they update only
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regression test covering an interrupted render with a pending debounce,
verifying it uses the last committed text, asset ID, callback, and word IDs.

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  • src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.tsx
  • src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx
  • src/components/ai-edition/TranscriptPane.textEdit.test.tsx
  • src/i18n/locales/ar/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/en/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/es/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/fr/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/it/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/ja-JP/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/ko-KR/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/pt-BR/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/ru/settings.json
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  • src/i18n/locales/vi/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/zh-CN/settings.json
  • src/i18n/locales/zh-TW/settings.json
  • src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcribe.test.ts
  • src/lib/ai-edition/document/transcript.test.ts
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Thank you for this — and sorry for the outcome, because the work itself is careful. The
code-point-safe edges, the language-agnostic CJK rule (rather than trusting a language tag
that is often auto), paragraph breaks derived from timings and never persisted, and the
composition / blur / unmount safety are all the right instincts.

I am closing it because the transcript model changed underneath it while it was in flight,
and the two are not reconcilable by rebasing.

What changed

On feat/imported-audio (#569), a word the user adds to a transcript is no longer a row with
a text and a timing. It is a clip — on its own asset, with its own generated media file,
and its own one-word transcript. On the voice-over lane it is a track fragment, the same shape
in the coordinates a take has. Inserting cuts the clip in two and puts the generated clip
between the halves; deleting it puts them back together.

That model exists because every mapping in the codebase rests on one property — a clip is an
uninterrupted shift between its source seconds and the ruler — and a clip interrupted by
generated media broke that assumption in all of them at once.

Where this PR collides

The collision is only in the WRITE direction, but it is total there.

This PR's central invariant is that no word row is ever minted: a multi-word edit puts prefix

  • replacement + suffix into the first affected row and empties the rest. The new model's rule
    is the opposite — text nobody said has to become media that plays, for the length it takes
    to say it.
    Under this PR, typing extra words lengthens a caption on the same timing and
    creates nothing to play under it. The two cannot share one gesture: either typing a word packs
    it into a neighbour, or it creates an insertion.

There is also a narrower one worth naming: replaceTranscriptText operates on a transcript,
not a document. A word belonging to generated media has to go through setDocumentWordText,
which resizes the clip and renames the file it plays — routed around it, the clip keeps playing
the old duration.

What would survive

If we come back to #463 — and it stays open — the READ direction is the half worth keeping:
words → the natural plain-text projection. It has no conflict with any of this.

The write direction would have to emit the document's own operations (correct a word, insert a
generated clip, trim a range) instead of one range replacement. That is a different algorithm,
not this one adapted, which is why I would rather not leave the branch open pretending a rebase
would do it.

Sorry again for the wasted effort — this landed on the one file the new model rewrote most.

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Hi Etienne,

非常感谢你花时间写这么详细的解释,我真的很感激。

我现在完全理解 #578 为什么要关闭了。我写 UI 的时候,产品的底层模型发生了变化,我当时的文字编辑方案和新架构不再兼容。这很合理,也很抱歉最后没能合入。

特别感谢你把 #540 的三个 commit 原封不动、署着我的名字放进了 #569。document-layer 的 word correction 现在能进主分支,对我意义很大。

如果以后有范围更清晰、和新架构对齐的小任务,我很乐意继续贡献。

再次感谢你的认真 review 和公平的署名。

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Thank you!
If you want to invest in the transcript/document layer, the door is open.
Let's discuss that on the Discord, shall we? https://getopenscreen.com/discord

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[Feature]: Allow editing / correcting subtitle (STT transcript) text directly in the app

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