Deterministic pre-pass ported from voicebox (MIT, attribution header):
word-level (token repeated >=6x, punctuation-normalized) + character-level
(2-60-char unit repeated >=6x, catches multi-word and no-space-script
loops). Rhetorical repeats below 6 survive; no LLM involved; identical on
every platform. Applied to the FINAL text in /ws/transcribe and POST
/transcribe — segments keep raw recognition so timings stay truthful.
Phase 1 of Spec 3 (docs/competitive-analysis.md); the optional local-LLM
refinement pass (phase 2) lands with parity program Wave 2.1 in the same
module.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
