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AnchorCast v1.5.0 — Bible Downloads & Detection Improvements

✨ New Feature + 🎯 AI Detection Improvements + 🐞 Bug Fixes

This release adds an in-app way to download Bible translations directly, along with a round of accuracy and reliability improvements to live verse detection, transcription, and Sermon Notes based on real-service testing.

✨ New Feature: In-App Bible Downloads

• Download Bible tab — a new tab in Settings → Bible Versions lets you search and download translations directly, with no scripts or manual file handling required. Downloads are fetched, converted, and imported automatically — no restart needed.
• License-aware downloads — every translation is labeled by its copyright status:
• 🟢 Public Domain and 🔵 Free License translations (e.g. KJV, YLT, WEB, ASV, DRB, GNV, LXXE, LSV) download and import with one click.
• 🟡 License Required translations (most modern translations, e.g. NIV, ESV, NASB) are copyrighted — AnchorCast does not download these automatically. Instead you'll see a notice explaining you need to obtain the file from an authorized source, with an Import File… option to bring it in once you have it legally.
• Unrecognized translation codes default to License Required — the safe default — rather than assuming they're free to redistribute.
• Auto-flatten on upload — both the Download tab's manual import and the General tab's Upload button now automatically convert Bible JSON into AnchorCast's format, supporting flat-list and nested books→chapters→verses structures. You no longer need to pre-process files before uploading.
• Copyright notice — AnchorCast does not claim ownership of any Bible translation and only provides access to publicly available resources; users remain responsible for complying with the license terms of any translation they download or import.

🎯 AI Detection Improvements

• Verbal reference parsing — fixed several cases where spoken references failed to convert correctly:
• "Genesis three verse five" and similar phrasings with the word "verse" between chapter and verse numbers now parse correctly
• Commas after a chapter number ("Exodus chapter 33, verse fourteen") no longer break parsing
• Chapter-only references ("Exodus chapter 33") now set context correctly
• Spoken ordinal book prefixes ("second Corinthians") now recognized
• Psalm chapters spoken as split digits ("Psalm 1 fifteen" for Psalm 115) now parse to the correct chapter instead of being misread as chapter 1, verse 15
• A stuttered repeated number ("chapter five five verse seven") no longer produces the wrong verse
• Orphan-verse "fourteen vs four" bug — a bare "verse fourteen" following an established book/chapter was matching verse 4 instead of 14, because shorter number words were tried before longer ones in the pattern. Number-word matching is now ordered longest-first with proper word boundaries.
• False positive fixes:
• Reinforcement text (used to bias transcription toward an active passage) was leaking into the transcript and causing unrelated verses with overlapping phrases to be falsely detected (e.g. Romans 8:9, Acts 2:16, Isaiah 31:3). Reinforcement no longer pollutes the rolling transcript context.
• An overly broad "according to" trigger phrase caused short, generic fragments to be fuzzy-matched against unrelated verses. Narrowed to more specific citation phrases with a higher match-confidence bar.
• Whisper repetition loops (the same garbled phrase repeating across several chunks when audio was unclear) are now detected and suppressed instead of flooding the transcript.
• Detection latency — verse detection during continuous, uninterrupted preaching could be delayed indefinitely by a debounce that kept resetting. A maximum-wait guarantee now ensures detection still fires periodically even without a natural pause in speech.
• Context window extended — the window for connecting a bare "verse 12" back to an earlier-announced book/chapter was 90 seconds, too short for expository preaching that often returns to a reference several minutes later. Extended to 8 minutes.

🎙️ Transcription

• Deepgram upgraded to Nova-3 — improved accuracy over Nova-2 at the same latency.
• Bible keyterm prompting — a focused list of frequently-mangled book names and proper nouns (Hebrews, Habakkuk, Nehemiah, Melchizedek, etc.) is now passed to Deepgram to improve recognition, without the list being so broad it causes overfitting.
• Whisper server startup crash — whisper_server.py was missing the --secret argument that main.js had started passing for local authentication, causing local transcription to fail to start entirely. Fixed.

📝 Sermon Notes

• Longer sermons no longer fail — very long transcripts could hit the response token limit mid-JSON, causing notes generation to fail with a raw parse error. Token budget doubled and a truncation-tolerant repair step now recovers as much of the notes as was generated instead of failing outright.

🐞 Other Bug Fixes

• Live Display logo preview showing as broken image — the small logo thumbnail in the Live Display panel failed to load even though the same logo displayed correctly in the Projection window. Root cause: the main app window loads over http://127.0.0.1, and Chromium blocks that origin from loading file:// resources regardless of CSP settings. The logo preview now loads through the app's own local server instead of a raw file path.
• Logo not saved with presets — saving a preset with a logo overlay silently dropped the logo image because the save flow tried to re-fetch it in a way blocked by content security policy. Fixed to read the logo data directly instead of re-fetching it, and to carry the logo forward correctly when a preset with a logo is loaded and re-saved under a new name.
• Mac "Light" build compiling both architectures — npm run build:mac:light:x64 was building both arm64 and x64 regardless of the flag, because the config hardcoded both architectures. The CLI flag now correctly controls which single architecture is built.
• Mac builds no longer produce a .zip — all Mac build configs are now DMG-only, matching AnchorCast's manual-download update flow.

📦 Downloads

Upgrading from v1.4.0? Your data, settings, Whisper models, songs, transcripts, and schedules are fully preserved. If you use the new Download Bible tab, note the adm-zip package is a new dependency — run npm install before rebuilding from source.

Upgrading from v1.3.0 or earlier? See the v1.4.0 release notes for the security-hardening changes first.