diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a1e8035..b9acc82 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ Follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) · versioned wi
 
 ---
 
+## [1.14.8] — 2026-07-09
+
+### Changed
+- **Audiobook casting timeouts raised for large/slow models** — first attempt per passage: 6 min → 10 min; half-passage retry: 3 min → 5 min. 10 min also matches the server's own timeout cap, so this is the practical maximum without also raising that cap.
+
+---
+
 ## [1.14.7] — 2026-07-08
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 52e779f..9be7846 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.14.7
+1.14.8
diff --git a/static/index.html b/static/index.html
index 701392e..906185e 100644
--- a/static/index.html
+++ b/static/index.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
   <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark">
   <meta name="theme-color" content="#2563EB">
-  <meta name="app-version" content="1.14.7">
+  <meta name="app-version" content="1.14.8">
   <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest">
   <link rel="icon" href="/static/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
   <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/icon.svg">
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
   <!-- ── Core styles (local — no CDN dependency for first paint) ────────── -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/vendor/mdi/materialdesignicons.min.css">
-  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style.css?v=1.14.7">
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style.css?v=1.14.8">
 
 
   <!-- ── Flag icons — non-blocking (loaded async, icons appear after JS) ── -->
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ window.toggleNavTree = function(treeId, chevronId) {
 </script>
 
 <!-- loader.js: fetches sections → loads JS modules → removes skeleton -->
-<script src="/static/loader.js?v=1.14.7"></script>
+<script src="/static/loader.js?v=1.14.8"></script>
 
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/static/js/audiobook.js b/static/js/audiobook.js
index 1794ede..f819251 100644
--- a/static/js/audiobook.js
+++ b/static/js/audiobook.js
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ const AUDIOBOOK_CHUNK_CHARS = 3000;   // passage size per LLM attribution call
 const AUDIOBOOK_WARMUP_TIMEOUT_MS = 240000;
 // A chunk's max_tokens (routes/conversation.py) can reach ~4000 on slow local models
 // (~15 tok/s on modest hardware), i.e. up to ~4.5 minutes of pure generation time —
-// the old 90s timeout aborted almost every passage before the model finished.
-const AUDIOBOOK_ATTRIBUTION_TIMEOUT_MS = 360000;
-const AUDIOBOOK_ATTRIBUTION_RETRY_TIMEOUT_MS = 180000;
+// and large (100B+) models can take even longer just to produce a first token.
+// 600s is also the server-side cap (_request_timeout_seconds in routes/conversation.py).
+const AUDIOBOOK_ATTRIBUTION_TIMEOUT_MS = 600000;
+const AUDIOBOOK_ATTRIBUTION_RETRY_TIMEOUT_MS = 300000;
 const AUDIOBOOK_RECAST_TIMEOUT_MS = 240000;
 const AUDIOBOOK_RECAST_CONTEXT_CHARS = 4200;
 const AUDIOBOOK_RECAST_TARGETS_PER_CALL = 6;