Announcements can use Piper, a free local neural TTS, instead of the browser's system
voice. No account, no paid service, and it keeps working with no internet at the track.
- npm run tts:install (or Settings -> Audio -> Install) downloads the standalone Piper
release for Linux/Windows/macOS plus Swedish and English voices into piper/ once
- server/tts.js generates each line once, one at a time, and caches it as WAV under
data/tts/; a new line takes ~0.3 s with the standalone build
- src/piper_speech.js plays it and falls back to the browser voice if Piper is missing,
errors, or takes over 2.5 s, so no announcement is lost and timing is never held up
- "Pre-generate phrases and driver names" renders every fixed phrase and name in both
languages before race day
Browser voice stays the default. Generation routes fall under the admin PIN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit all 7 recorded clips to docs/videos/ (alongside the existing docs/screenshots/)
instead of leaving them in the gitignored video-guides/ folder from the earlier
feasibility spike - they're meant to be shipped, discoverable assets now, not scratch
output. scripts/record-video-guides.mjs writes there by default going forward.
Added a "Video Guides" section to README.md/README.sv.md (Getting started + Interface
tour groups) and a matching in-app "Video guides" panel on the Guide page, right after
the overview cards - the most discoverable spot for a brand-new user. Links point at
/docs/videos/<name>.mkv, served by the server's existing /docs static route.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CDP screencast -> ffmpeg -> MKV, driven against the same isolated server/browser pattern
the test suite already uses. Recorded three short clips demonstrating this session's tab
and schedule features; output goes to the gitignored video-guides/ folder rather than the
repo since these are sizeable binaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
