Performance direction

The reading plan — credits, front and back matter, headings and pauses — and directing each passage with a speaker, cues and a note.

Stage ② Script decides what the audiobook reads, and how.

The reading plan

With no passage selected, the panel beside the script is the reading plan:

Opening and closing credits. Leave them empty for the standard wording — title, author, and your narrator. If you write your own opening credits and leave out that the narrator is an AI voice, “This audiobook is narrated by an AI voice.” is added: every store that accepts AI narration requires it.
Also read. A dedication, an epigraph, acknowledgments and About the author, taken from the book's Setup. They are read as their own short tracks, so chapter 1 is still chapter 1.
Chapter headings. Read them — “Chapter Seven. The Crossing.”, the audiobook convention — or leave them out.
Pauses. How long to hold after a heading, at a scene break, and between passages. Silence is added when a chapter is put together, so changing it never costs a re-recording.

Select a passage in the script:

Read this passage — untick to leave it out. Its audio is kept, so putting it back is free.
Speaker — the narrator, or a cast member from ① Voice, who then reads the whole passage in their voice.
Cues — whisper, sigh, slower, a long pause… — and a note for the passage. Only the realism narrator performs them; on the included voice the panel says so instead of letting you place cues that would be ignored.

Scene breaks show in the script as markers with their pause.

Reads a chapter and places cues and speakers — only where you haven't placed your own. About 1 credit per chapter.

Direct before you record. A cue changes how a passage is spoken, so adding one after recording means a new take of that passage.
A speaker only changes the audio when the cast gives them a voice. Naming a speaker with no voice of their own costs nothing.
The prose is read-only here. Words are fixed in the writing room.