v0.13.0 — Transcript Intelligence

Text-based editing lands. 59 → 62 tools.

Apple put Final Cut Pro's AI (Transcript Search, Generate Captions) behind the Creator Studio subscription. This release brings the agentic version to everyone, free, via local Whisper — and goes further: the transcript doesn't just search, it cuts.

New tools

• transcribe_media — word-level transcription of each clip's source media, locally (faster-whisper, optional [transcribe] extra). Transcripts are cached as _transcript.json next to each media file so transcription is a one-time cost. Optional SRT output plugs into import_srt_markers.
• edit_by_transcript — cut timeline content by what was SAID. mode=remove cuts every occurrence of the given phrases with ripple; mode=keep_only keeps only the matches (clips with no matches are never deleted).
• remove_filler_words — um/uh cleanup from real source audio with ripple. Conservative defaults: "like" and "so" are speech, not noise — opt-in only.

Notes

• Same graceful-degradation contract as ffmpeg/librosa: no faster-whisper → install hint, never a crash.
• 1032 tests (42 new), all green. Whisper model names allowlist-validated; per-call transcription capped at 10 media files.

Full details in the CHANGELOG.