Stop Recovery Retries from Overloading OpenWhispr's Cloud Transcription Path

At 3:00 AM, a brief network interruption becomes a capacity incident. Clients retry, upstream queues fill, and a recovery burst exhausts quotas just as connectivity returns. For an application such as OpenWhispr , the dangerous moment is not the original outage; it is the moment many queued recordings become eligible for cloud transcription simultaneously.

My integration approach is to bound recovery traffic before tuning model latency. OpenWhispr supports local Parakeet/Whisper execution and cloud models with user-provided keys.…