Designing a Voice
Describe a persona and Qwen VoiceDesign generates a matching voice. Open a cast member's profile drawer — a character with no voice yet is flagged "Needs voice" — and Castwright drafts a starting voice persona from how they actually speak in the book.
Edit the persona text (or click "Regenerate" for a fresh draft), pick Qwen
(bespoke) as the voice engine, and click Design & preview. Generating
persona text needs a GEMINI_API_KEY set from Account → Server
Configuration (or in server/.env for CI / power users) — the drawer warns
inline when it's missing.
Design runs on the GPU, one character at a time. The top bar shows a "Designing · N%" pill while it works, and it's safe to close the drawer — progress keeps going in the background.
Once a character has a designed base voice, the profile samples directly from that design (no library voice matched yet) and the button becomes Design & compare for another pass. Saving pins the voice across the whole series. From here, per-emotion variants — Whisper, Angry, and any other tags used in the manuscript — become available to design individually.
"Design full cast" (next to the cast table) opens a scope picker instead of working through characters one at a time: Base voices for whoever still needs one, Emotion variants for tagged emotions missing a take, or Both — bases first, then their variants. Designs still run one at a time on the GPU; the picker is safe to close while the queue works through it.
Next: Voice Engines.