Reviewer feedback: remove AudioContext destination echo, escape model names, add RMS gate to skip silence, close mkstemp fd, clean up mic on WS close. Tests updated for the RMS gate.
Full HTML dashboard (dark theme, vanilla JS, no external deps) served at / and /dashboard with five tabs: system status (admin), file upload-to-transcribe with progress/result/downloads, job history with cancel/result modal, realtime mic demo over the existing WebSocket, and API key create/list.
Backend: POST/GET /v1/keys (admin; raw key returned once, digest-only storage); KeyStore.list_keys(); EngineOwner.emit_hypothesis is now a real implementation (PCM16 chunk -> WAV -> realtime-lane decode with the single GPU lock) instead of a stub.
Notebook: tunnel cell links /dashboard and smoke-checks the HTML.
+ 6 tests (dashboard public HTML, key create/list/scope, WAV header, emit_hypothesis cleanup). 153 tests pass, ruff clean, JS syntax verified with node --check.
Colab run 3 (A100) surfaced three GPU/API-path bugs mocks couldn't catch:
1. faster-whisper yields namedtuple Segments, but batch/bench consume
them as dicts (.get) -> AttributeError 'Segment' has no attribute
'get' on every real transcription. Engine now normalizes segments
to dicts (_to_dict_segments) at the boundary.
2. API TranscribeOptions carries engine-irrelevant keys (formats,
timestamps, glossary_id, post_correction, diarize); worker's
TranscriptionOptions(**job.options) crashed with TypeError. Worker
now filters job.options to TranscriptionOptions.__slots__.
3. in-proc server never consumed its own queue (jobs stayed queued
forever). Added opt-in Settings.auto_worker (default off): lifespan
starts a daemon Worker thread for inproc backend, stopped on
shutdown. Notebook enables it via LUKESCRIBE_AUTO_WORKER=true so the
API upload -> completed flow works end to end.
Notebook: bench manifest now uses clips schema (audio_path/duration_sec/
entities); cell 22 reads error_message/error_code; upload poll window
raised to 4min (first-run model download).
+ 5 tests (namedtuple/dict segments, API-style options, auto_worker
on/off); 136 tests pass, ruff clean.
lukehemmin