AB Genesis – UI – Assigning Characters

Overview

Characters assignments start with the selection of a block or text within a block. You can then assign a character from the ribbon, side lists or keyboard accelerator. Let’s show this on Chapter 1 of Paull of Montreal.

The first paragraph is pure narration so we leave it as is. The second paragraph starts and ends with dialog. Select “Forty-fifteen.” or double-click inside of it (A.B. Genesis automatically selects the text enclosed in “). The character talking is called Pedro, but he is not a recurrent character. Therefor we will use a Generic character, “Man1” in this instance.

Assigning a Character

Generic characters can be renamed within a chapter. This simplifies the use of generic characters and helps remembering the characters.

We now do the same for the second dialog.

Once a character is used in a chapter, it becomes available on the left side for convenience.

Characters speaking the same text

It is possible to have the same dialog spoken by more than one character. To add a second (or third) overlapping character, hold the “shift” key while adding the voice. In the example below, Forty-thirty will be side by both Igor and Paul at the same time.

If you select a new character without holding Shift, it will simply replace the character.

Removing the character

Simply right-click on the text box and select “Clear.”.

Human-Narrated blocks

Operations on externally recorded audio characters or narrator are a bit different. They are not using emotions or such, but depending on how the audios are cut (small files, large files), their entries might need to be split or merged.