Firstly, I just want to say this is an amazing tool and has worked decently well. Thank you for your work!
My primary issue right now, which makes the conversion process inconsistent, is a parsing error that causes the narrator to skip descriptive/action text between lines of dialogue. This makes the tool a bit unusable.
I successfully converted a chapter into an audio book, and the character voice assignment worked well (male voices for male characters, female voices for female, etc., using the character_profiles.json overrides). However, when reviewing the audio, I noticed the flow was broken by numerous missing narration blocks.
The program seems to be failing to assign any descriptive text to the Narrator once a character dialogue sequence begins, effectively skipping the text until it hits the next piece of quoted dialogue. The following text block illustrates the issue. The narrator speaks the first line, and then the quoted dialogue is spoken, but all bolded lines of narration/thought are skipped in the final audio (note I bolded it here for understanding its not actually bolded in the epub)
Example of Text Being Skipped:
After giving a fair share of the spoils to the vigorous huntress, she glanced at Sunny, Cassie, and Caster. Then, Changing Star said:
"I would like for you three to entrust me with your part of the meat."
'What? What is that about?'
Before Sunny had an opportunity to ask a question, Cassie already smiled and said:
"Of course, Neph!"
Caster did not linger, either. With a small bow, he nodded.
"As you wish, lady Nephis."
Sunny gritted his teeth. After that, he would have looked like a complete jerk if he were to start interrogating her. Especially because, technically, he had not done anything except for lending his shadow to Effie. Nephis and Caster were the ones who had actually risked their lives.
"...Fine."
Nephis gave them a nod and continued walking up the white road.
Character voices (e.g., Nephis, Cassie) speak their lines with correct tone/style. All intervening narration and character thoughts are omitted, causing the dialogue to be spoken rapidly and back-to-back. I'm not sure if this is an issue with my epub or if there's an issue with detecting narration from dialogue but I have also attached the mp3 clip of this so you can hear the issue.
Narration Skip.mp3
Firstly, I just want to say this is an amazing tool and has worked decently well. Thank you for your work!
My primary issue right now, which makes the conversion process inconsistent, is a parsing error that causes the narrator to skip descriptive/action text between lines of dialogue. This makes the tool a bit unusable.
I successfully converted a chapter into an audio book, and the character voice assignment worked well (male voices for male characters, female voices for female, etc., using the character_profiles.json overrides). However, when reviewing the audio, I noticed the flow was broken by numerous missing narration blocks.
The program seems to be failing to assign any descriptive text to the Narrator once a character dialogue sequence begins, effectively skipping the text until it hits the next piece of quoted dialogue. The following text block illustrates the issue. The narrator speaks the first line, and then the quoted dialogue is spoken, but all bolded lines of narration/thought are skipped in the final audio (note I bolded it here for understanding its not actually bolded in the epub)
Example of Text Being Skipped:
After giving a fair share of the spoils to the vigorous huntress, she glanced at Sunny, Cassie, and Caster. Then, Changing Star said:
"I would like for you three to entrust me with your part of the meat."
'What? What is that about?'
Before Sunny had an opportunity to ask a question, Cassie already smiled and said:
"Of course, Neph!"
Caster did not linger, either. With a small bow, he nodded.
"As you wish, lady Nephis."
Sunny gritted his teeth. After that, he would have looked like a complete jerk if he were to start interrogating her. Especially because, technically, he had not done anything except for lending his shadow to Effie. Nephis and Caster were the ones who had actually risked their lives.
"...Fine."
Nephis gave them a nod and continued walking up the white road.
Character voices (e.g., Nephis, Cassie) speak their lines with correct tone/style. All intervening narration and character thoughts are omitted, causing the dialogue to be spoken rapidly and back-to-back. I'm not sure if this is an issue with my epub or if there's an issue with detecting narration from dialogue but I have also attached the mp3 clip of this so you can hear the issue.
Narration Skip.mp3