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Setup shots: quote the real TTS cost, not "about a cent"

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A measured run of the 80s NIMBY script came back at $0.1589 for 946 characters
- the ElevenLabs rate of $22 per 131,000 - so the copy understated it by more
than tenfold. Compute it from the words actually in the box instead.
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@ -281,7 +281,12 @@ function render(r) {
'<h2 class="sec" style="margin-top:34px">Setup shots</h2><div class="card">' '<h2 class="sec" style="margin-top:34px">Setup shots</h2><div class="card">'
+ '<p class="foot" style="margin:0 0 14px">Speaks the whole piece once in your pet&rsquo;s ' + '<p class="foot" style="margin:0 0 14px">Speaks the whole piece once in your pet&rsquo;s '
+ 'voice, measures where every word actually falls, and cuts the shots at real sentence ' + 'voice, measures where every word actually falls, and cuts the shots at real sentence '
+ 'endings. It divides the words &mdash; it does not change them. About a cent.</p>' + 'endings. It divides the words &mdash; it does not change them. '
// Measured, not guessed: an 80s piece came back at $0.1589 for 946 characters,
// which is the ElevenLabs rate of $22 per 131,000. "About a cent" was wrong by
// more than tenfold, so quote the real number for the words actually on screen.
+ 'Costs about ' + Math.max(1, Math.round(narrative.length * 22 / 1310))
+ ' cents at this length.</p>'
+ '<button type="button" class="btn' + (stale ? '' : ' ghost') + '" id="setupshots">' + '<button type="button" class="btn' + (stale ? '' : ' ghost') + '" id="setupshots">'
+ 'Setup shots</button>' + 'Setup shots</button>'
+ '<span class="foot" style="margin-left:12px" id="setupnote"></span></div>'; + '<span class="foot" style="margin-left:12px" id="setupnote"></span></div>';