[devjenjen]

Summary

• Add the studio recording pill with a pulsing red rim, responsive HUD meter, rotating finishing rainbow, and consistent reduced-motion behavior.
• Protect speech repair from truncated output using the formatted prompt's token budget and an original-text fallback when completion is uncertain.
• Keep native recognition and capture resources owned until their actual work finishes; bound stop, model-switch, and exit waits and require a restart after a hang.
• Limit recordings to five minutes and streaming backlog to 144,000 samples / 1,024 items, including in-flight work. Stop on overload, preserve incomplete partials for recovery, and show localized status messages.

Verification

• Previously run on the exact local main commit c1cae6adaa990e2e8429717d86e30b05e9b5dd9a: 529 Release tests passed (excluding actual RealModel and QualityCorpus tests), Release solution build passed without warnings, self-contained win-x64 publish and Test-ReleasePackage.ps1 passed.

• Previously: deterministic fakes cover offline and streaming hangs, including a completed reader with blocked final decode, delayed disposal, cancellation, audio limits, and follow-up sessions. Avalonia checks are headless.

• User reports the latest robustness build tested positively. This does not establish coverage of every hardware, animation, or failure case.

• Fresh for this PR: fetched origin/main at c4c383eba73eb4e506cf4ebab409c658958deff3, checked the clean source/head and duplicate PRs, and verified the published EXE SHA-256 686EF5EE0A96D3597C18F17684712C4FE66B1BD0F3B3D26F767BAA6DDD4955D2. No source changes or conflict resolution were needed for publication.

• Follow-up after the first CI run: one HUD test depended on the runner animation setting and a 60 ms wall-clock window. Test-only commit 2bc64524d46c4052426d7a3573b91bb819e5bc05 fixes the test setup and explicitly checks the reveal timer; fresh focused tests 2/2 and the full App suite 137/137 passed locally. That test-only commit retained the c1cae6a product sources.

• AO review follow-up 62cad99: batch Nemotron transcription now feeds recordings longer than nine seconds in bounded chunks, waiting for consumption without changing non-blocking live capture. Fresh Release suite 532/532 and build passed; a new separate self-contained win-x64 package was published from this commit and passed the release package check. The earlier c1cae6a EXE predates this product change.

• CI follow-up 5463dca: serialize the blocking native fake test classes to avoid thread-pool starvation in the CI runner; Speech tests 123/123 passed locally. Production sources remain identical to the 62cad99 package.

Real GGUF/native model behavior and the full native HUD/reduced-motion matrix remain to be checked on hardware. Native cancellation does not interrupt an already running decode; timeouts quarantine the instance until actual cleanup and require restart. EOS does not prove semantic completeness.