Measure complete CPU gated transcription and component costs

tools/speech-vad/README.md

@@ -30,3 +30,9 @@ minimum speech 250 ms, silence 100 ms, maximum speech FLT_MAX, padding 30 ms,
 overlap 0.1 seconds. It does not establish model accuracy or a production
 speech gate. Compare the complete frozen speech/music/sound pool before judging
 quality; preserve original Google audio retrieval regardless of transcription.
+
+`gated_asr.py` runs the frozen base transcription experiment from the verified
+VAD report. It preserves all five competitors, no-speech status, original source
+intervals and raw ASR logs. `compare.py BASELINE GATED` reports component timing
+and segment counts only; it rejects incomplete or invalid pools and does not
+score retrieval quality. See the protocol document for actual evidence.