From 5073cd7398e3e8864856f250eec91807af17a423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Beaugeard <nick@releasedgroup.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 13:21:47 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: align exported subtitle highlights

---
 src/lib/videoExport.ts    | 2 +-
 tests/videoExport.test.ts | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/videoExport.ts b/src/lib/videoExport.ts
index 9cf50eb..f3102a1 100644
--- a/src/lib/videoExport.ts
+++ b/src/lib/videoExport.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export interface VideoRenderRequest {
 
 const MIN_WORD_DURATION_MS = 90;
 const TYPICAL_WORD_DURATION_MS = 240;
-const MODEL_RECOGNITION_DELAY_MS = 1_500;
+const MODEL_RECOGNITION_DELAY_MS = 1_000;
 export const FINAL_CAPTION_HOLD_MS = 1_500;
 const MAX_LINE_WORDS = 8;
 const MAX_LINE_CHARACTERS = 48;
diff --git a/tests/videoExport.test.ts b/tests/videoExport.test.ts
index 77ca720..104a214 100644
--- a/tests/videoExport.test.ts
+++ b/tests/videoExport.test.ts
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ describe("video subtitle export", () => {
     expect(completed[3].endMs).toBeGreaterThan(completed[3].startMs);
   });
 
-  it("compensates for the streaming model's transcript delay", () => {
+  it("compensates for the streaming model's one-second transcript delay", () => {
     const tokens = tokenizeScript("Make");
     const timed = appendTimedScriptWords([], tokens, 0, 1, 2_500);
 
-    expect(timed).toEqual([{ text: "Make", startMs: 760, endMs: 1_000 }]);
+    expect(timed).toEqual([{ text: "Make", startMs: 1_260, endMs: 1_500 }]);
   });
 
   it("groups a sentence into one lower-third line and finds its active word", () => {