diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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## [Unreleased]
### Changed
+- **Audiobook casting-pipeline extraction.** LLM casting, unknown-speaker recast, automatic repair, and cast-view
+ orchestration now live in `audiobook-pipeline.js`.
- **Rehearser I/O extraction.** Session serialization, library save/load/autosave, REH/Fountain/FDX/OSF export, and
PDF/session import now live in `rehearser-io.js`.
- **Rehearser playback extraction.** WebAudio playback, transport controls, bounded decoded-audio prefetch, persistent
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index df705a5..1eb3797 100644
--- a/TODO.md
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@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ architecture change: the larger Audiobook/Rehearser/style split.
- [ ] Split `audiobook.js`, `rehearser.js`, and `style.css` by responsibility; Rehearser casting, playback, training,
voice design, I/O, library, and stage blocks are now isolated, with import/event wiring and remaining Audiobook orchestration
- still in the monolith.
+ still in the monolith; Audiobook LLM orchestration is now isolated from the Reader/export UI.
- [x] Extract Rehearser stage display and cast-sidebar controls into `rehearser-stage.js`.
- [ ] Replace broad globals with namespaces such as `window.TTVC.audiobook`; a compatibility namespace bridge now
exposes the existing Audiobook, Rehearser, and job APIs while responsibility-by-responsibility migration continues.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9be6d61..e7a3fa9 100644
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.24.51
+1.24.52
diff --git a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 34b4763..55cc557 100644
--- a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Done incrementally as global-scope ordered files (no ES-module change needed)
- ✅ `audiobook-segmentation.js` — quote segmentation, conservative turn-taking, and dialogue-piece validation.
- ✅ `audiobook-parse.js` — dialogue detection, dehyphenation, and speaker-heuristic constants; the casting pipeline remains in `audiobook.js`.
- ✅ `audiobook-cast.js` — cast Markdown export, legacy page-stamping migration, deterministic speaker/sentence/duplicate/alias normalization helpers, and the live cast-view renderer.
+- ✅ `audiobook-pipeline.js` — LLM casting, unknown-speaker recast, automatic repair, and cast-view orchestration.
- ✅ `static/css/resource-diagnostics.css` — isolated Performance/resource diagnostic panel styles.
- ✅ `static/css/background-jobs.css` — isolated background-job history and retry-panel styles.
- ✅ `static/css/voice-design.css` — isolated Voice Design form, samples, and preview-match styles.
diff --git a/static/index.html b/static/index.html
index 3782835..c268e86 100644
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