v1.1.3

Records snapshot records/202610/, scored with this release. No change
moves a number published in records/202609/, which stands as scored for
1.1.0. The October snapshot adds PocketSphinx, Olign 1.0 and one cascade,
and its Olign rows are described below.

Added

• Olign 1.0 as its own row beside Olign 0.9, on both tracks. On Track 1 it
  is given the reference transcript. On Track 2 it recognizes the words
  itself and then aligns them, so the tables call it two-step, as they do
  Qwen3-ASR. It is reached through Olewave's job API at
  https://api.olewave.com/olign/v1, with the key in OLIGN_API_KEY. The
  call lives with the cloud providers, which cache every response, retry
  and run requests concurrently. Recipes evals/aligners/olign_v1/ and
  evals/timestamp_asrs/olign_v1_asr/.
• PocketSphinx as a Track 1 row, the HMM family's one member not built on
  Kaldi. It aligns the way pocketsphinx align does, with the bundled
  en-us model and CMUdict, and g2p_en for words outside the dictionary. It
  is built from a pinned main-branch commit rather than the PyPI wheel,
  because the alignment fixes that matter here landed after v5.1.1. An
  utterance that fails on the default beams is aligned again with the beams
  open. The utterances that still fail also fail upstream's own CLI, and
  they count against the row as every system's failures do. See
  fabench/aligners/pocketsphinx/README.md.
• Qwen3-ASR → PocketSphinx as a Track 2 cascade, generated the way the
  other cascades are.
• The records snapshot records/202610/, with 19 forced aligners on
  Track 1 and 34 systems on Track 2. records/latest and the README point
  at it. ElevenLabs Scribe v2 has 12 of its 20 cells, since the account ran
  out of credit before the dev split under the four degradations, and
  ElevenLabs forced alignment is still unpublished for the same reason.
• Each Olign 0.9 hyp record keeps the versions object of the response
  that made it, for responses fetched since 2026-10-11.
• A leaderboard badge at the top of the README, ahead of the paper badge,
  that opens the current snapshot's results page.

Changed

• The three cascades into Olign 0.9 on Track 2 were rerun against the
  Olign 0.9 service that produced its Track 1 row, so every Olign 0.9 row
  comes from the same service. Under noise their word MAE improves by 0.8
  to 1.6 ms and their F1 at 20 ms by 0.02 to 0.05. Clean cells move by
  0.3 ms or less.
• A cloud recipe's base_url is part of its response cache key, so a
  recipe aimed at one endpoint cannot replay the cached answers of another.
  No tracked recipe sets base_url, so no cached response is orphaned.
• The Olign live smoke test runs only when OLIGN_TEST_PORT is set. It
  used to default to one machine's port.

Fixed

• The cloud adapter drops a phone whose end is not after its start, as the
  Olign 0.9 adapter has since it was written. Olign 1.0 is the only cloud
  row with a phone tier and it had kept them, so the two versions of one
  system were scored under different rules. On Buckeye dev under additive
  noise the difference was close to 10 ms of phone MAE. No published number
  moves, since Olign 1.0 first appears in records/202610/.
• evals/gen_cascade_configs.py writes a base tool's relative paths
  relative to the cascade's directory, and decides what is a path by the
  key, as the composer does. A bare venv: venv was left pointing at
  nothing.
• evals/run_cpu_cells.sh printed an empty tool name in every status line.