diff --git a/src/servers/api/stt/transcribe.ts b/src/servers/api/stt/transcribe.ts
index 4b58f2a5..34e5a3a9 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/stt/transcribe.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/stt/transcribe.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@
 //
 // The detection must win when Whisper is confident. `spokenLanguages` only breaks ties on clips
 // Whisper is genuinely unsure about, where its low-confidence guess defaults to English.
+//
+// Both requests pass `timeout: false`. Bun's fetch aborts at 300s by default, and whisper.cpp runs at
+// roughly 8x realtime, so anything over ~40 minutes of audio died with "The operation timed out"
+// about 20 seconds short of the answer. AbortSignal.timeout() does not raise that ceiling — only
+// disabling the built-in timeout does.
+
+// Bun's fetch accepts `timeout: false` to disable its built-in 300s ceiling. The DOM RequestInit
+// type this project compiles against does not declare it, so widen it here rather than casting at
+// each call site.
+type BunRequestInit = RequestInit & { timeout?: boolean | number };
 
 type TranscribeArgs = {
   file: File | Blob;
@@ -52,7 +62,11 @@ export async function transcribeAudio({
   detectForm.append('response_format', 'verbose_json');
   detectForm.append('detect_language', 'true');
 
-  const detectRes = await fetch(`${base}/inference`, { method: 'POST', body: detectForm });
+  const detectRes = await fetch(`${base}/inference`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    body: detectForm,
+    timeout: false,
+  } as BunRequestInit);
   if (!detectRes.ok) throw new Error(`Language detection failed (${detectRes.status})`);
   const detectJson = (await detectRes.json()) as {
     language?: string;
@@ -93,7 +107,11 @@ export async function transcribeAudio({
   transcribeForm.append('response_format', 'text');
   transcribeForm.append('language', detectedLanguage);
 
-  const res = await fetch(`${base}/inference`, { method: 'POST', body: transcribeForm });
+  const res = await fetch(`${base}/inference`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    body: transcribeForm,
+    timeout: false,
+  } as BunRequestInit);
   if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Transcription failed (${res.status})`);
   const text = (await res.text()).trim();