The Production Pipeline
Turning a chapter into audio is a pipeline of clear stages. Each one has a job, and progress comes from the stages reporting in.
At a glance
- Analysis → Queue → Synthesis → Bake → Assembly.
- Each stage has a defined job.
- Progress is reported centrally, not guessed.
The stages
- Analysis: the chapter is split into segments and chunks.
- Queue: work is scheduled by the orchestrator.
- Synthesis: the engine generates audio for each chunk.
- Bake: chunks are validated and combined into segment/chapter audio.
- Assembly: chapters are combined into the final audiobook.
Where progress comes from
Progress is centralized, not improvised per screen. Stages report into the progress service, which broadcasts a single, consistent view with an ETA. See Progress Services.