Cook: one run of talkinghead on one recording, and its run directory.
Judge: the LLM that makes the editorial decisions, through claude or a shell command.
Vote: the judge is asked five times for a whole-transcript decision, and four identical answers make it a decision. Restart markers use three asks and two answers.
Stage: one decision step: cold open and outro, retakes, content, then the mechanical pauses and edges.
Memo: a stage’s saved result, keyed on the hash of its inputs, so a rerun replays it.
HLG: hybrid log-gamma, an HDR transfer format that many phone cameras record in. talkinghead keeps 10-bit HLG as 10-bit HLG.
LUFS: loudness units relative to full scale. The final audio targets -16 LUFS.
Overlay: a picture drawn over the finished cut: a quote card, a screenshot or the chapter roadmap.
Board: an experimental panel that shows a tablet canvas beside the speaker.