The IRV seat was retired on tts-dev's numbers: it lost to the FV seat at both
clip lengths and to whisper-large-v3 at 6.24s. Their length sweep fits ~58ms
fixed + 56ms per audio-second with an asymptote of ~17.8x realtime, which
independently reproduces our 17x on a different clip and harness, and the gateway
hop measured below their harness resolution so ext-stt is the right consumer path.
Two caveats recorded against our own numbers: their between-run variance is 20%
because GPU 0 carries the live chat path, and our 0.50s median came off an idle
GPU 3 - a best case, not a comparable.
Their RTFx retraction is the durable part: published RTFx is batched throughput on
datacenter hardware rather than single-stream latency, and the two differ by ~200x.
Also banks the shape their acceptance gate caught, because it generalises past
their repo. A JS escape inside a Python string arrives transformed, closing the
string and killing the whole inline script, while the page still renders and both
import and node --check pass - the file still holds the backslash. That is the
same failure as reading provider=cuda out of a log: a check that reads the
artifact as stored cannot see a transformation that happens between storage and
execution. Both check the input to a transformation and get reported as if they
checked its output.
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