Voice consistency:
- Read back each voice's pinned seed (Seed Finder / Batch Seeds) on every
generation. The seed was saved to voice metadata but only ever read by the
Seed Finder's own benchmark path, so all per-voice seed pinning was inert.
- Stop coercing the "voice_design_playback" stability profile back to
"voice_clone". The pseudo-backend key isn't a real routing target, so the
backend-name normalizer silently rewrote it — reintroducing the hardcoded
seed:0 that profile exists to avoid, overriding every per-voice pin.
- Apply the accent clause on every line, not just at voice-creation time,
and reorder the instruct so emotion leads and accent trails (Qwen3-TTS
doesn't reliably follow multiple conflicting instructions).
- Pass an explicit language to Voice Design instead of leaving it on "Auto".
Audio effects:
- Add a limiter after compressor makeup gain. Makeup gain pushed peaks to
~1.9, and the final hard clip turned that into broadband distortion that
swamped the rest of the chain.
- Cascade highpass/lowpass 3 stages each (~18 dB/octave). Single-pole
filters were too gentle to band-limit speech audibly.
- Add a Bandpass control and wire it into the Telephone/Radio presets —
compression alone never sounded like a phone; band-limiting is the
defining trait.
Persona / Try It Out:
- Disable "Apply character persona" with an explanatory tooltip when the
voice has no persona saved, and error clearly server-side instead of
silently no-op'ing. Persona is typed manually per voice, never auto-filled.
- Stop dropping applyPersona in the chunked generation path (>200 chars).
- Populate the Voice Design dropdown from the user's own library rather than
filtering the engine's discovery list, which never contains custom voices.
Navigation and library:
- Use pushState instead of replaceState so browser Back/Forward step through
in-app navigation instead of leaving the app entirely.
- Show real dialogue line counts in the character sidebar instead of the
capped reference-quote count (which showed a misleading uniform "12").
Also fixes a crash in /api/transcribe-bytes that referenced an undefined
source_id in its cleanup path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces the new Studio section (Source -> Characters -> Voices ->
Perform & Export) that reuses the existing Read Aloud/Library/Script
Rehearsal code via DOM reparenting instead of duplicating it, and rolls up
a long tail of bugs found while producing a real audiobook through it:
umlaut-eating name sanitizers, a voice picker that mispositioned itself and
capped results at 60, PDF pagination silently breaking on trimmed \f
markers, a race letting stale audio keep playing after a new line was
clicked, an alias-overlap bug that could silently redirect a voice/image
save onto the wrong character, voice design failing outright during brief
TTS backend restarts instead of retrying, sparse cast entries defaulting to
English/wrong gender, and a reassigned voice never reaching an already-open
Stage session or invalidating its cached audio. Also adds a persistent
per-line audio cache, audiobook export browsing/download, and an inline
voice-design prompt editor. Full details in CHANGELOG.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier table-view fix (display:table-row on <tr>) wasn't the
whole story: display:flex directly on a <td> (Stimme, Tags columns)
also broke its table-cell participation in Chromium, rendering that
cell stacked at the PREVIOUS column's x-position regardless of
table-layout mode - confirmed via direct DOM/rect inspection, not
guesswork. Moved flex layout to inner wrapper divs and switched to
table-layout:fixed with an explicit colgroup so column widths are
never re-negotiated by content again.
Also added actual character merging to the "also known as" alias
popup: picking an existing roster entry (e.g. "Schmied" from Darag's
popup, when the LLM split one person into two roster names) reassigns
every one of its segments to the character you opened the popup from,
with undo support - not just a linked library alias that left the
live cast still showing both as separate people.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Table view was rendering as stacked blocks instead of columns: rows
reused .lib-char-card for its event wiring, but that class's
display:flex;flex-direction:column turned every <tr> into a flex
column. Reset to display:table-row and stripped the leaked-in card
chrome.
Split /api/character-generate-prompts into four independent per-field
LLM calls (from two paired calls) and added a `fields` filter, so the
UI can offer one Generate button per prompt box instead of a single
button that always regenerated all four - cheaper, and further
shrinks each response to reduce truncation risk.
Added a Sort dropdown (Role/Alphabet/Lines/Gender/Voice assigned) to
the Characters/Cast list, persisted like the Cards/Table toggle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Table view: one row per character (avatar, name, sex, line count, voice
language, alignment, voice, tags, prompt-availability checks), toggled
next to the card grid and persisted.
Bulk voice auto-assign: checkbox per character + "Auto-assign selected"
per production, sequential so later picks see what earlier ones just
took (avoids duplicate voice assignments).
Character tags (auto-set to the book of origin) are now visible on
cards - the field always existed, cards just never rendered it, so a
character recurring across books had no visible link between records.
Detail fields (Backstory, Motivation, etc.) now show small numbered
links to their exact source citation when the sheet has one, instead
of making the reader search the full "Quellen im Text" list.
Added gender as an actual extracted character-sheet field - the UI
already had a gender icon but the LLM was never asked for the value.
Fixed SillyTavern/Concept Art prompts still coming back empty despite
the earlier token-budget increase: they're the last two fields in one
JSON object, so truncation always cost the same two regardless of the
ceiling. Split into two independent, concurrent LLM calls instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Characters/Cast gains a "Casting" button back to the active casting
session, the pipeline stepper renders on the Library section, and the
stepper's Cast Characters stop navigates instead of side-effect-running
sheet generation. Prompt generation: 4096-token budget (1600 truncated
the four-prompt JSON so two fields silently arrived empty), truncated
answers salvage completed fields, all-empty responses fail loudly, and
partial results name the missing prompts. The PDF-extraction progress
pill is enlarged and vertically centered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The per-word <span> wrapping behind "click any word to assign" created
~100k DOM nodes at book scale and froze the tab on every feed redraw;
replaced with native caretRangeFromPoint word detection plus a single
reused hover overlay — same UX, zero extra DOM. Export button gained a
2s re-entry guard (queued clicks during a freeze fired as a download
burst) and now delivers one zip: the cast script in Markdown plus a
sheet per character. Character detail view gains a Generation Prompts
section — four fold-out copy boxes (Voice Design, Character Image,
SillyTavern card, Concept Art sheet) filled by one LLM call over the
full profile via the new /api/character-generate-prompts endpoint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add a 6-stage pipeline stepper (Source -> Cast Audiobook -> Cast Characters
-> Script Rehearser -> Generate MP3s -> Audiobook) with direct, non-destructive
jumps between stages and a prominent guided-tour look
- Split PDF import into an explicit "load" then "Extract Text" step, with
in-browser OCR (Tesseract.js, vendored) to recover chapter headlines baked
into a PDF as images instead of real text
- Fix casting feed silently merging pages after leaving/returning: segments
now carry their own page number instead of re-guessing it from text
- Fix excessive "Unknown" speaker attribution: restore the attribution LLM's
output token budget, which had been cut roughly in half and was truncating
dialogue-dense passages
- Fix Theater Play library cards failing to open (dead pre-migration
IndexedDB API calls, missing section navigation)
- Fix bulk "Set tag" wiping a voice's existing tags instead of adding to them
- Start merging Casting's feed with Script Rehearser's Stage UI: collapsible
character sidebar, shared "paper" page styling, inline text editing
- Fix a performance regression from that merge (per-row listeners on every
redraw) by moving to event delegation
- Various layout/clutter fixes: hide reader chrome until a document is
loaded, collapse secondary settings by default, fix overlapping toolbar
icons, fix duplicate "opening" notifications
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
