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   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "AudioCraft docs: at least 16 GB GPU memory for medium models; smaller GPUs can do short clips or the small model. Demo Space on Hugging Face and Colab. Platforms inferred from Python tooling."
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