Wires the commit-cadence policy to an actual reminder instead of a script nobody runs. - scripts/commit_check_notify.py: runs scripts/commit_check.sh (piped to bash -s so the script is never opened on the external volume), logs to logs/commit_check.log and posts a macOS notification via osascript when the tree is dirty. Defaults to --any (week's work) ; --age-only restores the >threshold behaviour; --no-notify for testing. - scripts/commit_check.sh: new --any mode (warn on any uncommitted change, ignoring age) for the weekly job. - LaunchAgent fires Sunday 18:00; launcher ~/.umbraaudio/umbra_commit_check.sh mirrors umbraweb_login.sh (cd project, export PATH, exec .venv/bin/python). The venv python is the only interpreter approved for the external volume, so a shell never reads a project file. - Verified under launchd: detects dirty tree, notification sent, exit 1; clean tree exits 0. Probe artifacts removed.
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 checkouton 2026-09-20 wiped out a month of changes toumbraaudio/web/routes.py. SeeAGENTS.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.
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Models: weights are not committed (see
.gitignore). Download them:bash scripts/download_models.sh # ~9 GB, targets ./models -
Qwen3-TTS is a git submodule pinned to upstream commit
022e286:git submodule update --init --recursiveThe
tts_server/web-demo backend includes a local UI customization toqwen_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 -
Environment: copy/keep
.env(contains secrets) and setUMBRA_TTS__*model paths undermodels/.
Book projects (e.g. DealHunterShip_...) are committed separately under their
own project directories and are not part of this program repository.