- 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
- 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
