Output formats¶

Format	Description
`txt`	Plain transcript text (default)
`srt`	SubRip cues from ASR segments
`json`	Structured result

aurum talk.m4a -o txt
aurum talk.m4a -o srt --output-file talk.srt
aurum talk.m4a -o json

JSON shape¶

{
  "text": "Hello world.",
  "language": "en",
  "model": "tiny-q5_1",
  "provider": "local",
  "duration_secs": 5.29,
  "backend_kind": "asr",
  "timestamps_reliable": true,
  "cleanup_style": "raw",
  "segments": [
    { "start": 0.0, "end": 3.9, "text": "Hello world." }
  ]
}

After --cleanup clean (rules):

Field	Meaning
`cleanup_style`	e.g. `"clean"`
`cleanup_provider`	`"rules"` or `"openrouter"`
`original_text`	Pre-cleanup ASR string

Honesty fields¶

Field	Local ASR	OpenRouter ASR
`backend_kind`	`asr`	`llm_assisted`
`timestamps_reliable`	`true`	`false`

OpenRouter SRT is refused unless --allow-unreliable-timestamps is set.