Harden stuck Whisper recovery and record transcription duration.

Fail jobs on timeout, treat stale reserved queue rows as orphans, skip migrate/seed on queue/reverb boot, and store how long each successful run took.

tests/Feature/RecordingUploadTest.php

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use App\Services\TranscriptionService;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
 use Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
 use Laravel\Ai\Transcription;
 use Livewire\Livewire;
@@ -209,6 +210,8 @@ class RecordingUploadTest extends TestCase
 
         Transcription::fake(['Hello from the recorder.']);
 
+        $this->freezeTime();
+
         $recording = Recording::query()->create([
             'user_id' => $this->user->id,
             'title' => 'Sample',
@@ -217,6 +220,7 @@ class RecordingUploadTest extends TestCase
             'file_size_bytes' => 12,
             'transcription_status' => 'pending',
             'transcription_driver' => 'local',
+            'transcription_started_at' => now()->subSeconds(42),
         ]);
 
         (new TranscribeRecording($recording))->handle(app(TranscriptionService::class));
@@ -227,6 +231,8 @@ class RecordingUploadTest extends TestCase
         $this->assertSame(100, $recording->transcription_percent);
         $this->assertSame('Transcription complete', $recording->transcription_progress);
         $this->assertNotNull($recording->transcribed_at);
+        $this->assertSame(42, $recording->transcription_duration_seconds);
+        $this->assertSame('42s', $recording->transcriptionStatusPayload()['transcription_duration_human']);
     }
 
     public function test_transcription_job_stores_error_on_failure(): void
@@ -283,7 +289,70 @@ class RecordingUploadTest extends TestCase
 
         $recording->refresh();
         $this->assertSame('failed', $recording->transcription_status);
-        $this->assertStringContainsString('worker stopped', $recording->transcription_error);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('timed out', $recording->transcription_error);
+    }
+
+    public function test_stale_reserved_job_is_treated_as_orphaned(): void
+    {
+        $recording = Recording::query()->create([
+            'user_id' => $this->user->id,
+            'title' => 'Wedged whisper',
+            'original_filename' => 'wedged.mp3',
+            'file_path' => 'recordings/wedged.mp3',
+            'file_size_bytes' => 100,
+            'transcription_status' => 'processing',
+            'transcription_progress' => 'Transcribing locally…',
+            'transcription_percent' => 50,
+            'transcription_driver' => 'local',
+            'transcription_started_at' => now()->subMinutes(20),
+            'updated_at' => now()->subMinutes(20),
+        ]);
+
+        $job = new TranscribeRecording($recording);
+        $payload = json_encode([
+            'displayName' => TranscribeRecording::class,
+            'data' => [
+                'command' => serialize($job),
+            ],
+        ], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
+
+        DB::table('jobs')->insert([
+            'queue' => 'default',
+            'payload' => $payload,
+            'attempts' => 1,
+            'reserved_at' => now()->subMinutes(15)->timestamp,
+            'available_at' => now()->subMinutes(20)->timestamp,
+            'created_at' => now()->subMinutes(20)->timestamp,
+        ]);
+
+        $this->assertFalse($recording->hasActiveTranscriptionJob());
+        $this->assertTrue($recording->isOrphanedTranscription());
+
+        $deleted = $recording->discardQueuedTranscriptionJobs();
+        $this->assertSame(1, $deleted, 'stale reserved job should be discarded');
+        $this->assertDatabaseCount('jobs', 0);
+
+        // Put the stale job back to exercise status-poll recovery.
+        DB::table('jobs')->insert([
+            'queue' => 'default',
+            'payload' => $payload,
+            'attempts' => 1,
+            'reserved_at' => now()->subMinutes(15)->timestamp,
+            'available_at' => now()->subMinutes(20)->timestamp,
+            'created_at' => now()->subMinutes(20)->timestamp,
+        ]);
+        $recording->forceFill([
+            'transcription_status' => 'processing',
+            'transcription_error' => null,
+        ])->save();
+
+        $this->getJson(route('recordings.transcription-status', $recording))
+            ->assertOk()
+            ->assertJsonPath('status', 'failed');
+
+        $this->assertDatabaseCount('jobs', 0);
+        $recording->refresh();
+        $this->assertSame('failed', $recording->transcription_status);
     }
 
     public function test_recent_processing_is_not_marked_orphaned(): void