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+# 2026.08.24.02
+
+Speech-to-text leaves the platform. It is a plugin now — `transcribe`, in the catalogue.
+
+**No schema change.** Nothing under `src/databases/**/schema.ts` moved. `bun db:push` stays a step because
+it is cheap and proves the database agrees with the code, but it must report no changes.
+
+**No dependency change.** `bun.lock` is untouched. **Do not run `bun install`.**
+
+## What is in it
+
+- **`api/stt/` and `server-settings/stt.ts` are gone**, along with `POST /chat/stt`,
+  `POST /file-browser/transcribe`, the FileViewer handler behind the button hidden last release, the
+  Settings → Speech to Text screen and the orphaned locale keys in all six locales.
+- **The transcription logic moved byte for byte** into `plugins/transcribe` — the two-pass
+  detect-then-transcribe, the 25 language priming prompts, the timeouts. Verified identical, not rewritten.
+- **`transcribe` is in the catalogue**, so it can be installed from `/plugins` on any host that wants it.
+
+## Installing the plugin is NOT part of this release
+
+This release only removes. A host that had speech-to-text configured loses it until somebody installs the
+plugin and points it at a server — and no host here had it configured, so nothing is lost anywhere.
+
+**Do not install it as part of the rollout.** Which hosts get transcription is the owner's decision, made
+per host, and an install grants access to every role. Report that the catalogue entry is available; leave
+it there.
+
+## Every host
+
+1. `git fetch origin --tags` then `git merge --ff-only deploy/2026.08.24.02`
+2. `bun db:push` — expect **no changes**. If it wants to alter something, stop and report it: this release
+   touched no schema, so a diff means that host and this tree disagree about something else.
+3. `bun run plugins:update`
+4. `pm2 restart officer`
+
+`officer` only at step 4. Step 3 restarts each plugin's own sidecar, which belongs in the report.
+
+**`macbookpro`:** append `/opt/homebrew/bin` to PATH for the `bun` commands, run `pm2` separately.
+
+## What to check, this release
+
+**Settings should no longer offer Speech to Text.** That screen is gone, and its absence is the visible
+change. If it is still there, the frontend bundle is stale — hard refresh before deciding it failed.
+
+The audio player's header should still show download and close, and still no transcribe icon. Images
+should still offer OCR and videos extract audio; those stay in the platform for now.
+
+No direct SQL is needed and none is authorised.
+
+## Hosts
+
+- **`edge-pertento-bridge`** — skipped, per `docs/servers.md`.
+- **`officer-dev`** — skip it. Restarting `officer` on the host running the rollout ends the rollout. It
+  already has this code and the plugin installed; name it as skipped and say so.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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 {
   "name": "officer",
-  "version": "2026.08.24.01",
+  "version": "2026.08.24.02",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "workspaces": [