- Add semantic-readiness timing references for all 36 frozen Pass-C cases
- Preserve MFA, WhisperX, and reusable NeMo readiness-word timing provenance
- Add cross-backend consensus, disagreement, confidence, and review-queue artifacts
- Preserve the reproducible W1-T alignment attempt and reuse ledger
- Mark all timing references as provisional, evaluation-only, and non-human-measured
- Explain that post-final artifacts preserve the original pre-review empirical state
- Clarify retained EC2 paths as historical provenance
- Record CRLF-to-LF normalization and original versus repository artifact hashes
- Distinguish preserved evidence from the current canonical backend selection
- Add the strict 36-row MFA empirical result and post-final comparison evidence
- Compare MFA, WhisperX, and NeMo across all 36 rows with pairwise review queues
- Select MFA as the operational final backend after closing the full-corpus evidence gap
- Publish the reviewed MFA 36-row annotation as the canonical final result
- Preserve historical Stage 5 evidence and document remaining manual-gold limitations
- Correct NeMo native word-CTM manifest handling
- Close real GPU smoke, five-row, and full-36 evidence
- Record the final three-aligner selection and final 36-row annotation
- Preserve historical Stage 5 evidence and bounded architecture
- Preserve the configured NeMo virtualenv interpreter path instead of resolving through uv symlinks
- Accept pinned NeMo 3.0.0 source builds with PEP 440 local-version suffixes
- Provide a workspace-local Numba cache for isolated NFA execution
- Add symlink, runtime-version, cache, and real-integration regression coverage
chore(repo): finalize licensing and documentation
- Add the standard Apache License 2.0 and VertoX-AI copyright headers
- Preserve deliberately empty package markers and the standalone worker shebang policy
- Rewrite the README as a concise Hugging Face repository landing page
- Add project status, modular architecture, and detailed workflow documentation
- Add ASCII diagrams for application, benchmark, and backend execution flows
- Normalize public branding to VertoX-AI and add repository-specific citation metadata
- Add concise upstream acknowledgments and official project links
- Add deterministic license-header and empty-package-marker validation
- Preserve all Stage 0-5 reports, benchmark evidence, runtime pins, and implementation behavior
- Record final architecture, software-engineering, coverage, and reproducibility acceptance
- Add joint MFA and WhisperX five-row benchmark evidence and pairwise boundary analysis
- Add the validated 36-row WhisperX annotation, receipt, and disagreement review queue
- Record NeMo empirical evaluation as deferred pending an NVIDIA-capable runtime
- Add the machine-readable final acceptance receipt and exact follow-up requirements
- Update the README from Stage 4 status to the finalized Stage 5 release state
- Complete the base error initializer documentation required by the final docstring audit
- Add isolated WhisperX reference-text alignment with typed configuration and provider boundaries
- Align authoritative transcripts directly without using Whisper ASR transcription as ground truth
- Parse native word timings strictly with explicit missing-timestamp and alignment failure handling
- Pin the WhisperX runtime and English WAV2VEC2 alignment model with reproducible provenance
- Preserve heavyweight model imports inside the isolated worker and keep neutral imports optional
- Preserve programming and systemic worker failures at the whole-process boundary
- Add deterministic unit, architecture, coverage, and opt-in real integration tests
- Record the real five-row evaluation with 5/5 successes and 0.0154 s first-word-end MAE
- Add typed MFA configuration, corpus materialization, subprocess execution, and TextGrid parsing
- Preserve authoritative transcripts with reversible MFA-specific normalization and lexical mapping
- Add strict handling for OOVs, silence intervals, malformed output, and timestamp validation
- Keep MFA isolated in its dedicated Conda environment and behind the shared backend protocol
- Add deterministic unit, architecture, coverage, and opt-in real integration tests
- Record the real five-row MFA evaluation with 5/5 successes and 0.0162 s first-word-end MAE
- Document runtime, model, dictionary, G2P, provenance, and Stage 4 readiness
- Add typed NeMo configuration, reference-text manifest generation, and isolated NFA execution
- Parse native word CTMs into backend-neutral alignments with strict transcript reconciliation
- Enforce authoritative reference-text mode and pinned NeMo script/runtime provenance
- Preserve optional native alignment artifacts and expose them through benchmark reports
- Add lazy library and CLI composition without importing NeMo or Torch in the parent process
- Add deterministic unit, architecture, coverage, and opt-in real integration tests
- Document reproducible NeMo setup and explicitly record the blocked five-row empirical run
