Reading a book with the Narrator

Reading a book with the Narrator

A mini-guide for Ruach Studio 2.0.7 and later.

The Narrator can read a long text as a book: part by part, in one voice from the first part to the last, each part a take of its own. The room itself is described in Ruach Studio 2.0.7.

Mark the parts

• Paste the whole text into the Narrator.
• Put the cursor where a new part begins and press ✂ New part (beside the pause button). It puts [split] there, with a blank line on each side. You can also type [split] yourself.
• A book can have up to 200 parts.

Give the parts their names

• If a part begins with a heading line (up to 80 characters, no full stop at its end, a blank line after it), that heading becomes the part's name.
• A part without such a heading is named «part K».

Read it

• Start the reading once. The voice of the first long piece carries through every piece after it, across all the parts, so the book keeps one voice.
• Each part lands as a take of its own, at the book's one loudness, filed in a section of the workspace named after the book, in the Narrator's realm of the Library.
• Each part is the child of the part before it in the family tree, so the book's order stays visible.

Fix it

• A book is fixed part by part: open the take of the part and use Fix there, piece by piece, as with any take.
• Press a word's vowel to move its stress (and, if you ask, add it to your dictionary); only that piece is read again, in the take's voice.
• A pause tag such as [pause:1s] or [pause:600ms] cuts a piece there and leaves exactly that silence after it.

Tips

• Mark stresses you care about in the text before reading: a stress you marked stays as you wrote it.
• For Ukrainian the Studio brings its own stress index; for other languages, build a dictionary of your own (docs/NARRATOR-DICTIONARIES.md).
• The Writer's text goes to the Narrator with one button, so a chapter drafted in the Writer can be read straight away.