README.md

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title: ai-audio-books
emoji: 📕👨‍💻🎧
colorFrom: blue
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.44.1
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
python_version: 3.11
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### Action items
- check new set of voices
- intonations
    - add context 
- audio effects
    - add context
    - filter, apply only for long phrases
    - only for narrator?
    - checkbox! make effects great again (no) optional
- limit on input text size
- fix UI
- slides / story
- optimizations
    - combine sequential phrases of same character in single phrase
    - support large texts. use batching. problem: how to ensure same characters?
- can detect characters in first prompt, then split text in each batch into character phrases
    - probably split large phrases into smaller ones
    - identify unknown characters
    - use LLM to recognize characters for a given text and provide descriptions detailed enough to select appropriate voice