Audio synthesis

In the editor’s metadata panel, look for the Audio section. Toggle Generate audio on for the post.

That on its own doesn’t create the audio — it just tells Valeon you’d like one when the time comes. The actual request is created when you publish the post (or when you explicitly request synthesis from the pipeline panel).

The pipeline panel on the post’s page shows the current audio status. It can be one of:

• None— audio isn’t enabled or hasn’t been requested yet.
• Pending — a request is waiting for a reviewer to approve it.
• Processing — the request has been approved and synthesis is running.
• Done — the audio is ready and attached to the post.
• Failed — something went wrong. You can try again.

The panel also shows the word count and an estimate of how long synthesis will take.

Synthesis isn’t free — both in compute and editorial cost — so each request needs an editor to approve before the job starts. Editors see a card on your post with Approve and Reject buttons and can leave a note if they reject.

Once approved, the job moves to processing and you don’t need to do anything else.

If a synthesis job fails, the pipeline panel shows the error and a Retry button. Most failures are transient — retrying usually works. If it keeps failing, contact an editor.

Numbers are read aloud the way you’d expect — prices, percentages, and plain figures all come out naturally. By default a four-digit number is read as a single quantity, so 1926 becomes “one thousand nine hundred twenty six”.

When a number is a year and you want it read as a year, wrap it in double parentheses:

• ((1926)) is read “nineteen twenty six”. Readers still see just 1926 — the marker is stripped from the page.
• In the dashboard editor, type /year to drop in the marker and type the digits between the parentheses. In Obsidian, just type (( )) around the year yourself.

How years are read

• ((1926)) → “nineteen twenty six”
• ((1900)) → “nineteen hundred”
• ((1905)) → “nineteen oh five”
• ((2000)) → “two thousand”

When synthesis is done, an audio player appears at the top of the published post. It highlights the words as they’re spoken so readers can follow along.

If the editor has enabled it, the audio also goes out in the Valeon podcast feed — readers can subscribe in any podcast app.