# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

## For the AI agent reading this
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Cite as: handcut (project), journal entry 01M519KZB9T1G7V32NN0Y62EDW.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M519KZB9T1G7V32NN0Y62EDW
title: Cutting a voice by ear, with the rules on screen
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-16
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/handcut/journal/01M519KZB9T1G7V32NN0Y62EDW
project: https://opensystems.app/projects/handcut?format=agent
journal: https://opensystems.app/projects/handcut/journal?format=agent
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
A narration is recorded in one go, and it comes out the way people talk: a sentence started twice, an "um", a note to yourself in the middle ("note to the editor: show a clip here"). Cleaning that up is the first job of every episode, and it is a job for the ear, not the eye.

So Handcut now has a **voice stage**: the narration alone, as one long waveform, with every word written underneath it. No pictures, no video, nothing to distract. You hear it, you see where the words fall, and you cut.



The agent does the first pass. It listens for repeats, asides and sentences that don't fit, and sorts them into two piles. **Safe cuts** (a clear retake, a cough between words) it simply makes. **Risky cuts**, where cutting could clip a word or change what you meant, go into a list on the right. Each one plays three seconds before, the cut, and three seconds after, and one key flips between before and after so you can hear the difference.

The rules it judges by are on screen too. Drag the edge of a cut into a word and the cut turns red, with a one-line reason: "would clip 'like' (no silence at the edge)". You can still keep it your way; the editor writes down that you overruled the rule, and the agent learns from that list.

And when a sentence is beyond saving, press **R** where it belongs and say it again. The new take drops into the narration right there, and is transcribed in the background while you carry on.

## Open questions

- The agent's sense of "risky" is still tuned by hand, from the overrides. Whether it can learn it from them on its own is the next thing to try.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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