B.D. Murphy 44d77cdc9b Resolve a queued voice to its speaker by alias, not just exact name
Every item in Deal Hunter's voice_queue.json had failed with
error: "'primary_name'". _speaker_info matched only an exact primary_name,
so any other spelling returned {} and build_profile_from_speaker subscripts
that key directly - the job died before synthesising a single sample and the
reviewer saw only an error tag.

That is a live trap for Save & Re-voice specifically: renaming a speaker and
then re-voicing it leaves the queued name matching nothing.

- Case-insensitive, whitespace-tolerant match, then an alias pass.
- An unknown name now raises LookupError naming the speaker, instead of a
  KeyError about a dictionary key three frames away.

Fixed in the queue layer rather than voice_profile_manager.py, which has 6
pre-existing failures in that area and should not be disturbed by this.

8 new tests. Suite: 698 passed, 8 pre-existing.
2026-10-11 21:00:43 -07:00

UmbraAudio

Quality-first multi-pass audiobook generation from English manuscripts.

Features

  • 5-pass pipeline: Analysis → Voice Design → Mapping → Test → Generate
  • Multi-engine TTS: Chatterbox (primary), Qwen3-TTS (secondary)
  • LLM-enhanced: BookNLP for NLP, LLM for profiling/emotion/pronunciation
  • Web review: FastAPI + HTMX at checkpoints for human approval

Quick Start

python -m umbraaudio.cli init <manuscript.epub> --name 'My Book'
python -m umbraaudio.cli analyze
python -m umbraaudio.cli voices
python -m umbraaudio.cli review

Requirements

  • Python 3.11+
  • NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support (RTX 3060 or better recommended)
  • ffmpeg

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check umbraaudio/
pytest tests/ -v

Commit cadence: commit at least once every Sunday. Never leave a week (let alone a month) of work uncommitted — a single accidental git checkout on 2026-09-20 wiped out a month of changes to umbraaudio/web/routes.py. See AGENTS.md → Commit Cadence.

scripts/commit_check.sh enforces the nudge: it exits non-zero once the tree has been dirty longer than a week. The LaunchAgent com.umbraaudio.commitcheck runs it every Sunday at 18:00 and posts a macOS notification when there is uncommitted work.

scripts/commit_check.sh            # warn if dirty > 7 days
scripts/commit_check.sh --days 3   # tighter threshold
scripts/commit_check.sh --any      # warn on any uncommitted change

Rebuilding from source

The repo tracks source only; large runtime data is reconstructed as needed.

  1. Models: weights are not committed (see .gitignore). Download them:

    bash scripts/download_models.sh   # ~9 GB, targets ./models
    
  2. Qwen3-TTS is a git submodule pinned to upstream commit 022e286:

    git submodule update --init --recursive
    

    The tts_server/web-demo backend includes a local UI customization to qwen_tts/cli/demo.py. It is preserved as a patch — reapply it after checking out the submodule:

    cd Qwen3-TTS && git apply ../scripts/qwen3_tts_demo_umbra_patch.patch
    
  3. Environment: copy/keep .env (contains secrets) and set UMBRA_TTS__* model paths under models/.

Book projects (e.g. DealHunterShip_...) are committed separately under their own project directories and are not part of this program repository.

Description
Quality-first multi-pass audiobook generation pipeline (5-pass: Analysis -> Voice Design -> Mapping -> Test -> Generate). FastAPI+HTMX review UI, Edge-TTS/Qwen3-TTS multi-engine voice, SQLite state.
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