adeelahmad · Oct 15, 2026 · Oct 10, 2026 · Oct 10, 2026 · Oct 10, 2026 · Oct 10, 2026
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ body:
     attributes:
       label: Steps to reproduce
       placeholder: |
-        1. Open a recording in a namespace with …
+        1. Open an asset in a namespace with …
         2. Click …
     validations:
       required: true

diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!--- Title: a Conventional Commit, e.g. `feat(chat): answer from the selected recordings` or `fix!: drop the v1 API`.
+<!--- Title: a Conventional Commit, e.g. `feat(chat): answer from the selected assets` or `fix!: drop the v1 API`.
 It becomes this PR's line in the changelog and decides the next version (CONTRIBUTING.md). -->
 
 ## Description

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ The backend (`fastapi_backend`) and the frontend (`nextjs-frontend`) are version
   anytopdf, telemetry), takes the administrator password when installing needs it, then installs with live progress
   and opens Lens's setup page. Its answers become ordinary settings in Lens, editable there
   ([Get started](docs/get-started.md#the-web-installer)). `LENS_WIZARD=0` keeps the install in the terminal.
+- **Assets, not recordings.** The web app, the assistant, the API descriptions and the docs now call an item of any
+  kind an asset (or a document, when it is one), and keep "recording" for audio and video. API paths, MCP tool names
+  and stored data are unchanged.
+- **People, not speakers.** Everyone Lens recognises by voice or face is a person, on the People page, in the graph and
+  for the assistant; names found in text are named people. An item's text is its text, not its transcript, unless it
+  came from speech, and search says where words are found, not where they were said. The admin's account list is now
+  Members. "Speaker" stays for voices in audio (who spoke when).
 
 ### Features
 

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Use [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/): `type(optional
 the colon for a breaking change.
 
 ```
-feat(chat): answer from the selected recordings
+feat(chat): answer from the selected assets
 fix(worker): retry a stalled transcription
 docs: explain the Synology package
 feat(api)!: drop the v1 recordings endpoint

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ what their person may read.
 
 Everything below is built and merged. Work that is still in a pull request is listed under [In progress](#in-progress).
 
-- **Connect your agents.** Lens is an MCP server (`/mcp`): agents search, read transcripts and notes, cite exact
+- **Connect your agents.** Lens is an MCP server (`/mcp`): agents search, read assets' text and notes, cite exact
   moments, find similar content, explore the graph with Cypher or SPARQL or browse it as folders and files, suggest
   topics and graph changes, write notes and make podcasts. They sign in with OAuth and see only what their person may
   read; the account menu copies the MCP address in one click. The same folders and files can be mounted read-only over
@@ -93,17 +93,17 @@ Everything below is built and merged. Work that is still in a pull request is li
   assistant, which can also use that browser on the sites you allow (open, read, click, type), asking before anything
   that sends, deletes, buys or posts. ([Web clipper](docs/web-clipper.md),
   [the assistant in your browser](docs/browser-assistant.md))
-- **Understand it.** Transcription and speaker recognition (long recordings go to a speech provider in pieces that
+- **Understand it.** Transcription, people recognised by voice (long recordings go to a speech provider in pieces that
   fit its limits), text on screen and in scans, faces (off by default), NSFW pictures flagged by a model on your own
   server (off by default, per namespace), entities and topics in a knowledge graph you can explore, query with Cypher
-  or SPARQL, and see as it was at any version. Find what is most like a passage, a resource, a topic or an entity, in
+  or SPARQL, and see as it was at any version. Find what is most like a passage, an asset, a topic or an entity, in
   a Similar tab on every resource or by selecting text anywhere, and, with anytopdf, photos by what they show.
   ([Graph](docs/graph.md), [similar content](docs/processing.md#similar-content),
   [graph history](docs/graph-history.md), [topics](docs/topics.md), [video](docs/video.md),
   [NSFW classification](docs/nsfw.md), [long recordings](docs/speech-providers.md#long-recordings))
 - **Learn from it.** Make a two-host podcast episode about what you pick, every claim cited and checked against its
-  source, read aloud in two voices. Keep notes beside every recording, entity and topic, written by you or the
-  assistant, and export a resource or a collection as an evidence PDF with everything Lens found about it, or the
+  source, read aloud in two voices. Keep notes beside every asset, entity and topic, written by you or the
+  assistant, and export an asset or a collection as an evidence PDF with everything Lens found about it, or the
   parts you pick. ([Podcasts](docs/podcasts.md),
   [notes](docs/notes.md), [evidence PDFs](docs/api.md#evidence-pdfs))
 - **Automate it.** Pipelines and workflows on a canvas, routines on a schedule, batch runs over a collection, and

diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ next release, and you're credited in its notes unless you'd rather not be.
 
 ## What counts
 
-Lens keeps people's recordings, transcripts and documents, so these matter most:
+Lens keeps people's documents, recordings, photos and messages, so these matter most:
 
 - reading or changing anything in a namespace you have no role in (the API should answer 404 there), or doing more
   than your role allows;

diff --git a/ci/clicks/journeys.mjs b/ci/clicks/journeys.mjs
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ export const JOURNEYS = [
     async run(ctx) {
       const { page, meter } = ctx;
       await go(ctx, "Search");
-      await meter.type(page.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search transcripts" }), "raspberry", "the word");
+      await meter.type(page.getByRole("searchbox", { name: "Search your assets" }), "raspberry", "the word");
       await meter.press("Enter", "Enter to search");
       await page.getByRole("main").getByText(/Raspberry Pi can run Lens/).first().waitFor();
     },
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ export const JOURNEYS = [
     async run(ctx) {
       const { page, meter } = ctx;
       await jumpTo(ctx);
-      await meter.type(page.getByRole("combobox", { name: /^Search recordings/ }), "welcome", "part of its title");
+      await meter.type(page.getByRole("combobox", { name: /^Search assets/ }), "welcome", "part of its title");
       await page.getByRole("option", { name: /Welcome back/ }).first().waitFor();
       await meter.press("Enter", "Enter to open");
       await page.waitForURL(/\/(recordings|resources)\//);