Welcome to FicVox! To get the best possible experience, it is important to understand how the Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine processes text and what the best practices are when adding your favorite fanfictions or original stories.
Here is everything you need to know to build your library smoothly.
1. How the reader works: Paragraphs are segments
The core of FicVox is its reading engine. To allow you to easily skip forward or backward, the application processes your text paragraph by paragraph.
- The Golden Rule: FicVox registers every paragraph as a new audio segment.
- Avoid Wall-of-Text: If you paste a massive paragraph that spans entire pages, the TTS engine will try to read it as a single block. This can cause the audio to stutter, delay playback, or make it impossible to skip to a specific sentence.
- Best Practice: Keep your paragraphs reasonably short. Dialogue lines and standard book paragraphs work perfectly.
2. Understanding Android limitations
Although FicVox is fully functional on your phone, because the app is built in Godot, the mobile version has certain limitations regarding internal text editing. The text editor on the PC version is much more comprehensive and stable.
On your phone, you can paste text directly, but you cannot edit or correct it within the app. To make changes, you must first edit your text outside the app using external software (like Google Docs, Word, or a notes app) before pasting it into FicVox.
3. The recommended workflow (For long stories and fanfics) If you plan to add a multi-chapter story, a full novel, or a long script, we highly recommend preparing your library on a PC first.
- Create all the chapters you need on your PC.
- Once you have all your chapters ready, export the story you just created.
- A
.jsonfile will be generated. Transfer this file to your mobile phone using a USB cable, Google Drive, email, etc. - Open the app on your Android device, import your file, and you are all set!
- Note: You can use this same process to transfer stories back and forth between your PC and your phone.
Enjoy your experience!