Getting started

Quickstart

The shortest path from a clip on your machine to a governed German edition, with every intermediate record inspectable.

Open the workspace

Go to /workspace/new. If you have not seen a completed run before, the example project is a good reference for what the output looks like.

Drop an MP4

One English speaker, 1–30 seconds, up to 8 MB. The clip is inspected in your browser first — duration is read from the file itself, not guessed from its size — so a clip outside the range is rejected before any upload happens.

Confirm rights and disclosure

Both confirmations are required. One asserts you have the right to upload the clip and create a localized edition from it; the other acknowledges that the German track uses a disclosed stock synthetic voice and needs human approval before publishing.

Queue the job

The source and an immutable job request are written to Backblaze B2. No provider has been called yet.

Watch the run

You land on the run detail page. Stage events are append-only and polled every 20 seconds.

Approve if asked

If a segment overruns its slot beyond the band, the run blocks and asks for a shorter wording. Nothing is regenerated until you approve exact text.

What you get

Output	Where
German edition (H.264 · AAC · `mov_text`)	Run detail, once the final record exists
WebVTT caption sidecar	Alongside the render in B2
Per-segment drift measurements	Timing QA
Authorization decision	Voice authorization
Canonical manifests and hashes	Provenance

If the worker is offline

The topbar will read Queue only. Your job still writes durably to B2 and waits — nothing is lost, and no provider is called until the worker claims it.

Bounded capacity

Public intake is deliberately small so a single visitor cannot exhaust the provider budget.

At most 4 speech calls per job
At most 400 generated characters per job
3 admission slots per UTC day

The worker validates the exact slot before any provider call, so these are enforced server-side rather than in the interface.

New jobs can be paused

When TOLUVA_ENABLE_LIVE_INTAKE is off, /workspace/new still lets you prepare and inspect a source, but queueing is closed. Existing runs and all evidence remain accessible.