Before you queue everything
A long script can be hundreds of lines. Spend two minutes checking the setup first, so you don't make hundreds of takes with the wrong settings:
- Check each line's voice. Every line shows who reads it. Fix any that went to the wrong voice when you pasted.
- Generate a few lines by hand, one per voice, and listen. Adjust styles now, while it's cheap.
- Skim the text for numbers, symbols and names that should be written out.
Queue the script
- Generate all new lines appears at the top of the script, with the number of lines it will make: every line that isn't saved, has no take yet and isn't already waiting.
- Lines are made in order, top to bottom, after anything already in the queue.
- You don't have to wait. Keep writing, move to another script, or close the browser. The takes are made on the server either way.
- Each waiting line says so, and while it's still queued it has a Take out of queue button. Once a line is being made it can't be stopped.
Lines that already have a take
Generate all new lines skips lines that already have a take, so it never overwrites anything. To re-take a line that has one, press Generate another take on that line; the new take appears next to the current one for you to compare. Saved lines are never touched.
If a line fails
Occasionally a take can't be made. The line shows "The last try didn't work" with the reason, and a Try again button. A line that takes more than ten minutes is stopped and asks you to split it into shorter lines.
Reviewing the batch
- Go through from the top, playing each new take with the text in front of you.
- Save each line that's right; the progress bar at the top counts saved lines.
- For lines that aren't, fix the text if that's the problem, then generate another take.
- Compare, keep the better take, and save.
More on judging takes in picking the best take.
Adding lines later
Rewrites happen. Paste or type the new lines, and Generate all new lines will count only those: everything you've already made is left as it is. That's what makes iterating on a script cheap: a rewrite of three lines costs three takes, not a re-record.
Several scripts at once
Each script has its own button, and the queue is shared, so you can start one script, move to the next and start that too. The takes are made in the order they were queued.