The /audiobook skill turns a chapter of prose into multi-voice narration: the narrator carries the text, each speaking character gets their own voice, and every line lands on the timeline in the order it reads. The app first splits the text into segments (pure narration or one character's speech), proposes a voice cast and waits for your approval — only then does it record. The iron law is: one character, one voice, forever. In this guide you paste a manuscript, approve the cast and watch audio cards fill the canvas.
What you'll need
- FilmMovie Studio installed with a project open.
- A TTS provider configured in Settings (e.g. ElevenLabs or local Kokoro) with voices available.
- A chapter or scene of prose — prose with dialogue works best, ideally a few hundred to a few thousand words.
Step by step
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Open the project Workspace
From the Launchpad, open an existing project or create a new one. The Workspace appears with the canvas on the left and the chat panel on the right. This is where the whole narration happens — segments land as audio cards on the canvas.
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Paste or attach the manuscript
Copy a chapter from your document and paste it straight into the chat box, or attach a text file via the paperclip icon. The app notes the chapter label (default "Ch1") and the text's language — both chat and the recorded audio follow the source language.
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Start the skill with /audiobook
Type /audiobook into the chat and send the message (you can paste the manuscript in the same message). The app reads the text, lists every speaking character and splits the chapter into numbered segments in reading order — each either pure narration or one character's speech.
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Approve the voice cast
The app proposes a cast: one voice for the narrator plus one per character, and saves a tidy "Cast" card on the canvas. It pauses at a creative gate and asks "Roll tape?". Choose "Approve casting", or ask to adjust a specific voice.
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Let it narrate chapter by chapter
Once approved, the app records each segment in reading order — for each it calls TTS with the verbatim text, the cast voice and a name like "Ch1 §3 — Mara". Audio cards appear on the canvas, one per segment, parented to the cast card.
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Preview the segments and fine-tune
Click any audio card to play it. If a line reads wrong (wrong emotion, wrong voice), tell the chat which segment and what to fix — the app re-records just that one card, not the whole chapter.
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Open the timeline and assemble the narration
Open the timeline. The segments populate the Dialogue track in reading order, named like the page. You can drag small gaps between segments for paragraph breathing room and reorder clips.
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Export the audio
When you're happy with the narration, export from the timeline UI. The app stitches the Dialogue track's segments into a single audio file saved locally in the project folder, ready to share or mix further.
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What you get
You have a finished multi-voice narration of a chapter: the narrator and each character have their own, consistently applied voice, the segments sit in reading order on the Dialogue track, named like the page, and you can play or re-record any line on its own. From the timeline you export a single audio file ready to publish or mix further.
Pro tips
- Iron law: one character, one voice, forever — a character's assigned voice never changes within a chapter except for an approved recast.
- For a long book, process one chapter per run and keep the same cast so the characters' voices stay consistent across chapters.
- Attribution phrases like "she said" belong to the narrator, not the character — which is why narration and speech always live in separate segments.
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