4. Give characters voices

Assign narrators with Character detection

Important: This feature is currently only available for English audiobooks.

1. In the "Characters" pane, to enable one-click detection and narrator assignment, click Detect characters.
   • This process can take a few minutes.
2. In the "Audiobooks text" section, highlight the text for the character and right-click to assign or change the narrator for the character.
3. In the "Characters" pane, you can:
   • Add characters.
   • Delete characters.
   • Change the narrator voice and narration speed.
   • Review the character occurrences.
   • Merge characters.

Tip: You can't undo character detection. You can delete all characters to start over or manually add characters.

Add a character manually

1. In the "Characters" pane, click Add a character.
2. Enter the character's name.
3. Choose a voice and speed.

Mark text spoken by each character

1. Highlight the dialogue that you want narrated by the character.
2. Under "Additional Characters," right-click the character you want.
3. Choose Change Narrator.
   • You can also use your keyboard:
     • On PC: Press Ctrl + 1 for the first character, press Ctrl + 2 for the second character, and so on, for the first 10 characters.
     • On Mac: Press + 1 for the first character, press + 2 for the second character, and so on, for the first 10 characters.

Tip: Text that's not assigned to a character is spoken by the default narrator.

Change chapter narrator

1. For titles with different narrators per chapter, under "Sections," hover over the chapter that you want to edit and click More .
2. Click Change chapter narrator.
3. Select the character to narrate the chapter.
   • To reset to the title's default narrator, select Default.

Tip: Set the chapter narrator after character detection.

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