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Fixes #2833

When importing WebVTT and SubRip cues containing ruby markup (<ruby>base<rt>pronunciation</rt></ruby>), both the base text and the ruby annotation were preserved during plain-text extraction, causing the pronunciation guide to be duplicated into the spoken transcript.

Stripped <rt> and <rtc> annotations before tag removal in both the backend parser (spoken_cue_text) and the Electron story import helper, and added regression tests covering WebVTT and SubRip ruby cues.

Ruby <rt> and <rtc> annotations are removed before tag stripping in backend and Electron caption imports, while base text remains. This prevents pronunciation guides from appearing as spoken dialogue in WebVTT and SubRip imports. Human review should check malformed or nested ruby markup, because the removal pattern uses closing tags and cue boundaries to determine what content to discard.

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[Medium impact] The change affects caption text in backend and Electron import workflows.

Fix the loss of later caption dialogue in Electron before merging.

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  1. P1 Later caption words disappear ▶

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Removes ruby pronunciation guides from spoken caption text in the backend and Electron.

  • Caption imports keep ruby words and drop their pronunciation guides.

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Python and Electron caption text extraction now removes Ruby pronunciation annotations before producing spoken text. The regression test covers WebVTT and SubRip cues, multiple annotations, and an unclosed <rt> tag.

Changes: Caption Text Extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ruby annotation filtering
backend/services/srt_parser.py, electron/src/shared/utils/importStory.js, tests/test_caption_markup_not_speech.py
Both extraction paths remove <rt> and <rtc> annotation content before extracting spoken text. The test checks WebVTT and SubRip cues, multiple annotations, and an unclosed <rt> tag.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: debpalash, kevin9327

Merge Risk: Low · up to e29ec

Most captions are unaffected, but an accepted ruby cue with multiple pronunciation segments can put later pronunciation text into generated transcripts in Dub or Stories. This is a narrow edge case, so overall merge risk is low.

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Title check Passed The title uses the required Conventional Commit format with the subtitles scope. The issue reference appears in the description as Fixes #2833.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #2833 requires base text once and omission of <rt> and <rtc> annotations for WebVTT and SubRip imports. spoken_cue_text removes these annotations in the backend and Electron helper before …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes are limited to ruby annotation removal in the two caption-to-speech helpers and related backend regression coverage. These changes directly support issue #2833 and do not add unrelated beh…
Cross-Platform Default Parity Passed The PR changes default caption text extraction, but the changed logic is platform-independent. backend/services/srt_parser.py adds only a Python regular expression and `electron/src/shared/utils/imp…
I18n Completeness (21 Locales) Passed No changed Electron UI code adds or changes a t('...') key. The only Electron change is regex and parsing logic in electron/src/shared/utils/importStory.js; it adds no user-facing hardcoded string…
Local-First Guarantee Passed The PR is local-only. The changed backend and Electron code adds regular-expression matching and in-memory text substitution; the changed test adds local assertions. The changed files add no fetch, HT…
Backward Compatibility Passed The pull request changes only subtitle plain-text extraction in backend/services/srt_parser.py, electron/src/shared/utils/importStory.js, and regression tests. It does not change database schema, …
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- Line 265: Update the ruby annotation matching in
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# Ruby pronunciation annotations (<rt>...</rt>, <rtc>...</rtc>).
# Stripped before plain-text extraction so annotations are not duplicated as spoken dialogue.
_RUBY_ANNOTATION_RE = re.compile(
r"<(?:rt|rtc)(?=[\s.>])[^<>\n]*>.*?(?:</(?:rt|rtc)>|(?=</ruby>)|$)",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match each ruby annotation through its own closing boundary. Both patterns stop an outer <rtc> at a nested </rt>, so text later in the rtc becomes spoken text.

  • backend/services/srt_parser.py#L265-L265: Match an opened rtc through </rtc> or </ruby>; test nested annotations in both caption formats.
  • electron/src/shared/utils/importStory.js#L29-L29: Apply the same boundary rule and test the story import output.
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Update the ruby annotation matching in backend/services/srt_parser.py at line
265 to match an opened rtc through its own closing rtc tag or the enclosing ruby
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Traced the regex past the included tests. The main paths hold up: multiple <rt> per <ruby>, attributes (<rt class='x'>), uppercase tags, <rtc>, and the implicit close at </ruby> all strip correctly, and mirroring the Python and JS patterns 1:1 is the right call given the keep the two in step comment on _SRT_MARKUP_RE.

Two things I'd want addressed or at least acknowledged:

  1. <rp> fallback parens survive. The common real-world ruby pattern is <ruby>read<rp>(</rp><rt>reed</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>, and with this change that cue extracts as Please read() once. — the <rt> content is gone, but the literal parens from <rp> remain and reach the engine as speech. HTML-authored captions use rp a lot, so I'd strip <rp>...</rp> alongside rt/rtc, or at least pin the current behavior in a test.

  2. The $ fallback for an unclosed <rt> consumes to the end of the cue. I checked Line one\n<rt>note\nLine two still speech — it extracts as just Line one; everything after the stray <rt> vanishes. It's bounded per cue (parse_srt calls spoken_cue_text per cue at srt_parser.py:174, not on the whole file), and spec-wise an rt does run to cue end, so it's defensible — but in a malformed caption this silently discards the remaining dialogue lines. Ending the unclosed fallback at the next newline instead of $ would keep every test in this PR green while limiting the damage.

Minor: in the SubRip path the annotation strip runs before _SRT_MARKUP_RE, which is deliberately conservative about < being dialogue (a<b and c>d is speech there). A literal <rt 5> in dialogue now gets eaten as an annotation opener. Very unlikely input; just flagging that this narrows the SRT "tags must be exact shapes" rule.

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P1 Later caption words disappear

In compact caption files with no blank lines between cues, an unfinished annotation such as <ruby>read<rt>reed makes Electron discard later cues too. parseSrt joins their dialogue before RUBY_ANNOTATION runs, so its $ fallback removes everything after <rt>, including the next cue's words. Flush each cue at its timing boundary before stripping annotations.

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[Bug] Caption imports duplicate ruby pronunciation annotations

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