Concept notes — where ten shipped features started¶
These are the original idea pitches for ten YazSes v2 features, kept private while the features were unbuilt (an unshipped idea reads as a promise) and published here now that each one has actually shipped as an off-by-default, opt-in capability with a real ADR or spec. Each note is short on purpose: the technical design lives in the linked ADR/spec, not here. What these add is the "why we tried this" the ADRs themselves don't carry — and, honestly, where the original pitch turned out to be right or wrong once built.
| Note | Feature | Shipped as |
|---|---|---|
| Cocktail Filter | Filter out other voices in the room | v2-cognitive-layer/02-cocktail-filter.md — gate layer shipped, off by default after live testing found it unreliable on short windows |
| Glance-Type | Look-to-pane dictation targeting | v2-cognitive-layer/03-glance-type.md, ADR-v2-010 |
| Polyglot Switch | Configured-pair code-switch dictation | v2-cognitive-layer/04-polyglot-switch.md, ADR-v2-008 |
| Voiceprint Mind | Personal vocabulary/accent adaptation | v2-cognitive-layer/01-voiceprint-mind.md, ADR-v2-009 |
| Prosody Ink | Pause→paragraph, stress→bold | ADR-v2-002 |
| Punch-In | Re-speak a phrase to fix it | specs/punch-in.md |
| Dysfluency-Friendly Mode | Forgiving endpointing + repetition collapse | ADR-015 |
| Ghost Ahead | Pre-warm the decoder before hold-release | specs/ghost-ahead.md |
| Read-Back Loop | Hear the transcript, confirm/correct by voice | specs/read-back-loop.md, ADR-v2-042 |
| Spoken Recall | Ask your own past dictation a question | ADR-v2-005 |
All ten features ship off by default. Six other idea cards from the same batch — Say Macro, Uncertainty Ink, Spoken Agent, Ambient Scribe, Mid-Thought Undo, and Sotto Voce — have not shipped and stay private, per design/README.md's visibility contract: an idea without a shipped decision behind it reads as a promise.