Two root causes, both fixed in the bind-mounted podcast prompt templates
(prompts/podcast/*.jinja):
1. Language: the episode profile's `language` field IS passed to both
podcast_creator templates as {{ language }}, but the stock templates never
reference it — so podcasts came out English (driven only by the English
stock briefings/speakers), then read aloud by the German-locked Chatterbox
TTS = "English with a German accent". Added a CRITICAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
block keyed on {{ language }} to both templates; now `language: "de"`
actually forces German. Verified end-to-end: a full run produced a 44-line
all-German transcript + audio.
2. Invalid json output failures: qwen3.5:27b is a thinking model; on long
segments the <think> block ate the response-token budget and truncated the
JSON. Prepended /no_think to both templates (~3x faster, valid JSON).
Templates are bind-mounted read-only via docker-compose (directory mount, so
edits survive a container restart without inode-staleness). Bundled briefings
and speaker backstories were also translated to German to reduce drift.
Known limitation documented: feeding an entire book (~70k tokens) as podcast
content makes each of the 6 LLM calls take ~3.5 min and is unreliable; use a
shorter source or summary. Confirmed working with concise content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- README's "Bekannte Stolpersteine" quick-reference list was missing the
podcast-language pitfall (already documented in CLAUDE.md/BEDIENUNGSANLEITUNG.md).
- The search/ask feature was only mentioned in passing; added a full section
with the working curl examples and the SSE response shape, since it's the
fastest/most accurate way to query long documents.
Everything else cross-checked against live state (credential num_ctx,
default models, running services, episode profile languages) and matched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
README.md gives the precise, reproducible install path (tested the two
scripts against the live instance - both idempotent, correctly detect
already-registered credentials/models). BEDIENUNGSANLEITUNG.md covers daily
usage: notebooks/sources, the three chat context modes (and why "nur
Erkenntnisse" needs a transformation run first), podcasts, voice cloning,
and troubleshooting for the issues actually hit during setup (num_ctx
truncation, embedding GPU contention, ufw).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
