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   to compare against; worth revisiting only as an alternate TTS backend for a second opinion on narration
   quality, or its MCP server for a quick engine A/B). No integration started.
 
+### UI/UX and feature ideas from the VoiceStudio comparison — set 2026-09-29
+
+From the deep-dive UI/UX comparison (`architecture/voicestudio-comparison.md`, "UI/UX and
+feature-parity deep dive"). User picked these to build; telephony integrations (Twilio/
+Plivo/Telnyx) were in the same gap list but deliberately not picked -- leave that one alone.
+
+- [ ] **Projects menu: group Audiobooks, Magazines, Script Rehearsals and Video Dubbing
+  under one "Projects" nav section.** Currently `Reader` (audiobook), `Magazine` and
+  `Rehearser` are three separate top-level `nav-tree-head` sections in the sidebar
+  (`static/index.html`/served nav — see `data-nav-section="s-reader"` /
+  `"s-magazine"` / `"s-rehearser"`). Add a new "Projects" parent with these three as
+  submenu items, plus a fourth submenu item for the new Video Dubbing feature below (a
+  placeholder entry is fine until that feature exists, but say so in its UI rather than
+  linking to nothing silently). Update `Manual.md`'s navigation description and any
+  Playwright specs that assert the current nav structure.
+- [ ] **Video Dubbing feature.** New capability, not currently in this app at all: upload a
+  video/audio file or paste a URL, transcribe it, translate to a target language (offer a
+  local/offline model, not only an LLM call -- see VoiceStudio's NLLB-200 option), then
+  re-synthesize speech timed to the original and mux it back into the video. This is a
+  multi-day feature (needs its own data model, a job pipeline, and a review UI, likely
+  similar in shape to the magazine pipeline's box/undo conventions) -- plan it properly
+  (goals, data model, API contract, error/offline behaviour) before implementing, per the
+  planning workflow, rather than bolting it onto an existing route file.
+- [ ] **Live STT Dictation.** A global hotkey that starts listening, transcribes speech, and
+  inserts the resulting text into whatever field/app currently has focus -- distinct from
+  the existing "global hotkey daemon" in Connect Apps, which triggers TTS *playback*, not
+  speech-to-text insertion; do not conflate the two or reuse its name for this. Needs a
+  small native/OS-level component (focus capture, text insertion) similar in spirit to
+  VoiceStudio's Rust control sidecar -- decide the platform(s) to support first (this
+  household's own machines) rather than building a generic cross-platform solution
+  speculatively.
+- [ ] **Onboarding / setup wizard.** Either (a) detect the local stack already configured
+  (Qwen3-TTS, vision OCR, the LLM router -- these already have URLs in Settings) and walk a
+  new install through pointing at them with a live check per engine, or (b) a single
+  one-click installer/setup flow that provisions everything needed, mirroring VoiceStudio's
+  tiered model packs (Fast/Balanced/Quality/Max, disk size shown before committing). Decide
+  which of (a)/(b) fits this app's actual deployment story (self-hosted, one household, engines
+  usually already running on the DGX) before building -- (a) is likely the better fit and
+  the smaller change; (b) only makes sense if this app starts bundling/installing its own
+  models rather than calling existing engine URLs.
+- [ ] **Global command palette + cross-app "recent" history.** A `Ctrl`/`Cmd`+`K` palette to
+  jump to any section/action, and a unified "recent generations" view spanning Voice Clone/
+  Design/Conversation/Magazine/Reader, not just each feature's own history (the magazine's
+  20-step undo stack stays separate -- this is about *finding* a past generation across
+  features, not undoing one). Survey existing per-feature history/list endpoints first
+  (`/api/*/history`-shaped routes already exist for several features) so the palette reuses
+  them rather than duplicating state.
+- [ ] **Curated voice-design preset gallery, integrated into the existing preset system.**
+  `s-design.html` already has save/load/delete for named presets (`design-preset-*`,
+  `routes` behind `design-preset-save`/`-load`/`-delete`) -- add a small built-in gallery of
+  named example personas (in VoiceStudio's style: "The Librarian", "The Anchor", …), each
+  with a one-line pitch and a pre-rendered demo clip, "Use this design →" filling the
+  description box from it. Ship a handful covering common needs (audiobook narrator, news
+  anchor, casual conversational, storyteller) rather than trying to match VoiceStudio's
+  exact catalog. Generate and store the demo clips once (not on every page load) and keep
+  them small (the existing 24 kHz mono WAV convention).
+
 ### P0 — do first
 
 - [x] **S — Stop provider API keys from reaching frontend JavaScript or logs.** Provider keys are masked in settings