- Deterministic hash-based character portraits and reference sheets
- Implemented strict early Renaissance aesthetic controls and role-specific headwear rules
- Added audiobook batch export scripts and progress tooling
- Verified book profiles with a new 'confirmed' state tracking mechanism
- Updated Pillow dependency for robust image handling
- Configured .gitignore for audiobook and audio cache exports
The caster emits fragments of noun phrases as characters — "in seinem Inneren"
-> Inneren, "die Hand" -> Hand, "mein Geliebter" -> Geliebten, "der Wind" ->
Wind. Each became a cast entry with its own voice while the real speaker's line
was lost to a phantom; measured against a hand-corrected book this was a large
part of why a fresh cast produced 73 speakers where the human had 62.
Such lines are now reset to Unknown — visibly unresolved and still recoverable
by the repair passes, rather than silently wrong. Applied to a real cast:
5 phantoms removed, 73 -> 68 speakers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consolidation ran only at cast completion, but recast/repair passes assign
speakers of their own and can re-introduce the variants just removed —
confirmed live: a freshly cast book gained "Alrik" alongside "Alrik von
Blautann" during auto-repair, splitting one character across two voices again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One character is referred to by several labels across a book — bare vs full
name, a title on its own, a stray fragment — and each variant became its own
cast entry with its own voice, so the character audibly changed voice
mid-scene. Measured against a hand-corrected book this accounted for more of
the disagreements than genuine misattributions.
Variants are folded together only when one label's words are a strict subset
of another's after stripping articles and titles, so "Weber" and "Alter Weber"
stay separate and unrelated names never merge. Applied to a real cast:
Sharraz -> Sharraz Garthai, Baronin -> Baronin Ira von Seewiesen,
Von -> Oberst Alrik von Blautann (40 lines, 58 -> 54 speakers).
Also moves the quotation-mark toggle into the A- / A+ toolbar row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CSS cannot target a character inside a text node, so the marks are now wrapped
in their own .ab-q element at render time and hidden with a single class on
body. Toggling is instant regardless of segment count, and the stored text is
never modified.
Also fixes the toggle looking inert on a freshly cast book: it previously only
added missing marks and never hid the ones the book already carried. Button
moved bottom-right as a larger labelled pill, clear of the search controls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
