- Implemented voice management routes in `voices.py` for listing, saving, and deleting speaker configurations.
- Added a test endpoint for voice synthesis preview, allowing users to test voice settings with provided text and speed.
- Introduced utility functions in `voice.py` for building voice catalogs, resolving voice settings, and synthesizing audio from normalized text.
- Enhanced speaker roster building and configuration application logic to support dynamic voice settings.
- Introduced `auto_prefix_chapter_titles` setting in Job and PendingJob classes to control prefixing of chapter titles with "Chapter".
- Updated job detail and settings templates to display and configure the new option.
- Enhanced reader.js to manage playback controls, including chapter navigation and playback speed adjustments.
- Implemented a new prepare_chapters.html template for chapter selection and configuration during job preparation.
- Added tests for chapter title formatting and heading equivalence to ensure correct behavior of the new feature.
- Added gender inference improvements in speaker_analysis.py, including handling of titles and diacritics.
- Updated analyze_speakers function to include sample excerpts with context paragraphs.
- Modified routes.py to skip suppressed speakers in the speaker roster.
- Enhanced prepare.js to manage speaker samples and pronunciation previews more effectively.
- Refined prepare_chapters.html and prepare_speakers.html templates for better navigation and user experience.
- Added tests for speaker analysis to ensure proper handling of stopwords and threshold suppression.
- Implemented number conversion to words for grouped numbers in text normalization.
- Added configuration options for number conversion in ApostropheConfig.
- Updated the normalize_apostrophes function to include number normalization.
- Enhanced the dashboard UI with new sections for manuscript and narrator defaults.
- Improved voice preview functionality with better handling of audio playback and status updates.
- Refactored HTML templates for cleaner structure and added new fields for speaker settings.
- Updated CSS styles for improved layout and responsiveness.
- Added tests to ensure correct spelling of grouped numbers in the normalization process.
- Included num2words as a new dependency in pyproject.toml.
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