tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/PROJECT_MAP.md

# Project map

Living index of where things are and what state they are in.
Update in the same commit as the change it describes.

## Current phase

Magazine projects, **P0 and P1 complete** (frontend reachable at Studio → Magazines). Audiobook/Rehearser/voice-library
features are mature and in daily use.

## Deployment

Two self-hosted Docker instances, both port 7890:

- **DGX Spark** (`192.168.178.8`) — primary. `docker-compose.yml` builds locally and tags the result
  `ghcr.io/martin-b78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2`, but that registry copy is not kept current on every
  deploy (several versions behind as of 2026-09-14) — treat it as a snapshot, not a source of truth. Python and
  static files are bind-mounted, so a code change needs only a container recreate; rebuild only when `Dockerfile`
  or `requirements.txt` change.
- **`correspondence-nuc`** (`192.168.178.19`) — secondary, live since 2026-09-14. No TTS/OCR engines of its own;
  every generation call crosses the LAN to the DGX (`docker-compose.nuc.yml`, tracked here, pins
  `vision_ocr_url`/`vision_ocr_fallback_url` explicitly to the DGX's IP — their default resolves relative to
  whichever host the container runs on, silently wrong here otherwise). Voice library is the DGX's own directory,
  NFS-mounted read-write (`/etc/exports` on the DGX, `/etc/fstab` on the NUC) — never a separate copy that could
  drift. Deployed by rsyncing the working tree (excluding `.git`, `config/`, `logs/`) and building on the NUC
  itself, since the `ghcr.io` image is both stale and private with no registry login there. See TODO.md's
  "P2 — deployment" entry for the full setup and the one accepted limitation (voice-change auto-restart of the
  DGX's TTS containers doesn't reach across hosts — manual restart on the DGX, same as before this existed).

## Layout

| Path | Role |
|---|---|
| `server.py` | FastAPI app, router registration, auth middleware |
| `core/` | domain logic — config, database, audio, voice, routing, magazine |
| `routes/` | HTTP boundary, one module per feature area |
| `static/js/` | frontend, one module per feature area (no build step for most) |
| `tests/` | `test_*.py` (unittest) and `*.spec.js` (Playwright) |
| `architecture/` | SOPs for subsystems whose design is not obvious from code |
| `workflows/` | ComfyUI graphs for character portrait generation |

## Feature areas

| Area | Server | Frontend | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voice library / clone / design | `routes/library.py`, `core/voice.py` | `library.js` | mature |
| Read Aloud (books, PDFs) | `routes/reader.py` | `reader.js` | mature |
| Audiobook casting | `routes/conversation.py` | `audiobook*.js` | mature |
| Rehearser | `routes/rehearsals_db.py` | `rehearser-*.js` | mature |
| Studio (phase wizard) | — | `studio.js` | mature |
| TTS engines / routing | `routes/tts.py`, `core/routing.py` | `engines.js` | mature |
| STT | `routes/stt.py` | — | mature |
| **Magazines** | `core/magazine.py`, `routes/magazine.py` | `magazine.js`, `s-magazine.html` | **P0 + P1** |

## Data model

Documents (books and magazines alike) live under
`<CONFIG_DIR>/reader_library/<doc_id>/`, discriminated by `meta.json → kind`:

- `kind: "pdf"` / text — Read Aloud book. Text is extracted in the browser and
  not persisted; `meta.json` holds counts and a flat `idx` resume position.
- `kind: "magazine"` — adds `layout.json`, `articles.json`, `pages/`, `images/`,
  `podcast/`, and a per-article `progress` map. See
  [architecture/magazine-ingestion.md](architecture/magazine-ingestion.md).

Settings, presets, routes and the SQLite database also live under `CONFIG_DIR`,
which is the writable volume.

## Environment

| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `CONFIG_DIR` | writable state (settings, library, database) |
| `VOICES_DIR` / `OUTPUT_DIR` | voice WAV library |
| `TTS_CONTAINER_NAMES` | containers restarted after a voice change |
| `DOCKER_HOST` | points at the socket proxy; the raw socket is not mounted |
| `llm_url` / `llm_model` / `llm_api_key` | settings.json, OpenAI-compatible LLM |

## Pending decisions

- Container registry: ghcr costs quota against a private package (≈427 MB per
  push, 500 MB free on the Free plan). Local registry vs. ghcr vs. no re-pull is
  **unresolved** — the compose files currently point at ghcr.
## Known limitations

- `gitea` backup remote is 157 commits behind `origin`; `main` tracks `gitea`.
- Magazine sidebar exclusion is a narrow-column geometry heuristic
  (`mark_sidebars`), not certain — review always shows every sidebar block.
- Magazine word-level highlighting is a character-length estimate against
  real measured audio duration, not true forced alignment.
- No formal cross-engine OCR accuracy benchmark exists (two engines wired:
  ocr-baidu-unlimited-ocr primary, KDL Frontier Parser nano fallback).
- Figure boundaries are re-derived from the page render (`snap_visual_bboxes`)
  because vision OCR grounds figures loosely; it corrects roughly 100 of the
  147 figure regions on `c't KI Wissen 2026` and deliberately declines the
  rest. A pale chart or line drawing on white is below its ink threshold and
  keeps the engine's box — draw those by hand in review. The pass is
  idempotent (safe to re-run via "Fix figure boundaries" any number of
  times), including the one confirmed pair that cannot mathematically
  converge — two adjacent figures sharing a dark caption strip settle on the
  same answer every run rather than continuing to drift between two states.
- No `npm run qa` aggregate command yet; Python tests run via `unittest`,
  browser tests via `playwright test`.
- The app has no authentication for the browser UI and no per-user data
  isolation — single-tenant/LAN-trust only (one global settings/database/voice
  library, no accounts). See `architecture/multi-tenant-and-identity.md` and
  TODO.md's "Deferred — public multi-user readiness" section.

## Next logical step

Magazine P2 per TODO.md: image descriptions, table/chart handling, EPUB 3
Media Overlay export, and a formal OCR-engine benchmark (see
architecture/magazine-ingestion.md).