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Book dialogue narration: how to prepare characters' lines
For book dialogue narration, preserve each speaker's turn and check the punctuation around dialogue tags. Correct your available copy in an external editor before uploading it. TGRadio does not assign separate voices to characters or promise dramatization, so test whether the conversation is clear when read by your selected voice.
Identify actual changes of speaker
Compare the conversation with the source book. After copying, a new line may indicate either another speaker or the continuation of a long speech. Consider the meaning, dialogue tags and original punctuation together. A new line alone is not enough to identify a new speaker.
For example, one character's question and another character's answer should remain separate turns. If the answer contains several sentences, do not treat each sentence as a different speaker. First establish who owns the whole passage, then restore its paragraph structure.
Keep dialogue tags attached to the correct speech
Tags such as “he asked” and “she replied”, along with descriptions of actions, help make a conversation understandable. Do not remove them as stray insertions when cleaning text. Check that joining or moving lines has not attached a tag to the next character.
For example, in “I'll return,” she said, “when the rain stops,” the tag interrupts a single speaker's sentence. Preserve that structure rather than turning every part into a separate statement. If punctuation has disappeared, restore it from the source; vocal delivery cannot repair the underlying sentence.
Inspect quotation marks and sentence endings
Look for missing closing quotation marks, altered dashes and punctuation damaged during copying. Follow the conventions used in the source text consistently. Do not automatically convert every hyphen into a dash, since hyphens inside words serve a different purpose.
Check questions, exclamations and unfinished sentences separately. For example, “Are you home yet?” should not become a statement because its question mark was lost. Avoid adding ellipses after every turn to make the reading more expressive: this changes the punctuation without guaranteeing a particular delivery.
Avoid adding acting instructions
TGRadio has no built-in role markup, SSML editor or setting for assigning a different voice to each character. Words such as “whispering” or “angrily”, inserted into the file as instructions, may become part of the spoken text. They are not commands to the application.
Do not insert a character's name before every line merely to assign a voice. That changes the conversation. If you deliberately create an adapted version, keep it separate from the original and check whether added explanations distract from the dialogue itself.
Test both short and extended replies
Choose a sample scene containing a question, a short answer and speech interrupted by a dialogue tag. Upload the prepared excerpt as a separate file, select a voice and press Play. Follow the text as you listen: can you tell where one speaker finishes and the other begins?
If a boundary is unclear, inspect the paragraph and punctuation first. Correct the copy outside the application and upload it again. To compare another voice, use the same passage; changing voices requires a new audio version. A successful sample still cannot guarantee the same expressiveness throughout every scene.