Found by comparing the first real one-hour transcript against pianissimo:
whisper.cpp wraps at ~60 chars and can wrap INSIDE a word. The continuation
segment has no leading space, the text field joins segments with newlines, and
a segment can be a lone '.'. Measured 2026-10-01: 7% of segments (96/1332) in a
synthetic hour, 42/1302 lines in the real one. My earlier tests used short
sentences and could not see it. berget's segments are whole sentences with no
leading space, so the two backends need different joins.
Red: Text still joins by newline.
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Gateway: field is `file`, no Expect header, a computed Content-Length (not
chunked, not buffered -- a 90 min WAV is ~170 MB), verbose_json normalised
with the last segment clamped to the audio duration, errors independent of
the body, an empty transcript is a failure. Chain: ANY primary failure falls
back and the row records the fallback endpoint; a cancelled job never falls
back to the cloud.
Red: package transcribe does not exist.
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mathiasandClaude Sonnet 5.5