diff --git a/tmp2srt.py b/tmp2srt.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Convert TMPlayer subtitles (HH:MM:SS:text, '|' = line break) to SRT.
+
+TMPlayer stores only a start time per line, so end times are inferred:
+each cue ends when the next one starts (minus a small gap), or earlier if
+its text is short enough to be read sooner.
+
+    python3 tmp2srt.py input/film.txt [output.srt]
+"""
+import re
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# A separator after the timestamp is optional in the wild: some lines use
+# ':', some a bare space, some nothing at all.
+LINE_RE = re.compile(r"^\s*(\d{1,2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}):?\s*(.*)$")
+
+CPS = 16.0          # reading speed used to size a cue when there is room
+MIN_DUR = 1.2       # s
+MAX_DUR = 7.0       # s
+GAP = 0.08          # s left between consecutive cues
+
+
+def _fmt(t: float) -> str:
+    ms = int(round(t * 1000))
+    h, ms = divmod(ms, 3600000)
+    m, ms = divmod(ms, 60000)
+    s, ms = divmod(ms, 1000)
+    return f"{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d},{ms:03d}"
+
+
+def parse(path: Path):
+    cues, skipped = [], []
+    for n, raw in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig").splitlines(), 1):
+        if not raw.strip():
+            continue
+        m = LINE_RE.match(raw)
+        if not m:
+            skipped.append((n, raw))
+            continue
+        h, mi, s, text = m.groups()
+        text = text.replace("|", "\n").strip()
+        if not text:
+            continue
+        cues.append((int(h) * 3600 + int(mi) * 60 + int(s), text))
+    cues.sort(key=lambda c: c[0])
+    return cues, skipped
+
+
+def to_srt(cues) -> str:
+    out = []
+    for i, (start, text) in enumerate(cues):
+        wanted = len(text.replace("\n", " ")) / CPS
+        end = start + max(MIN_DUR, min(MAX_DUR, wanted))
+        if i + 1 < len(cues):
+            end = min(end, cues[i + 1][0] - GAP)
+        if end <= start:                      # cues closer together than MIN_DUR
+            end = (cues[i + 1][0] if i + 1 < len(cues) else start + MIN_DUR) - 0.01
+        if end <= start:
+            end = start + 0.1
+        out.append(f"{i + 1}\n{_fmt(start)} --> {_fmt(end)}\n{text}\n")
+    return "\n".join(out)
+
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        sys.exit(__doc__)
+    src = Path(sys.argv[1])
+    dst = Path(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else src.with_suffix(".srt")
+    cues, skipped = parse(src)
+    dst.write_text(to_srt(cues), encoding="utf-8")
+    print(f"{src} -> {dst}: {len(cues)} cues")
+    for n, raw in skipped:
+        print(f"  skipped line {n}: {raw[:70]!r}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tts_txt.py b/tts_txt.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Read a plain text file aloud with the lektor_ai voice — no video, no SRT.
+
+The dubbing pipeline is built around subtitles: every clip is placed at a
+timestamp against a film. Prose has no timings, so this script does the one
+thing that is genuinely missing — it splits the text into sentence-sized
+chunks itself — and then reuses lektor_ai_comfy for everything else: the same
+dictionary, the same Polish number normalizer, the same ComfyUI TTS call with
+its truncation retries and crash recovery, the same per-clip trim and speed-up.
+The clips are laid end to end with a short pause instead of at an SRT time.
+
+    python3 tts_txt.py input/oko_proroka.txt
+    python3 tts_txt.py input/oko_proroka.txt -o output/oko.mp3 --speed 1.1
+    python3 tts_txt.py input/oko_proroka.txt --dry-run     # just show the chunks
+
+Clips live in output/clips/<stem>/ exactly as for a film, so an interrupted
+run resumes with --resume-from N and a re-assembly costs nothing.
+"""
+import argparse
+import random
+import re
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import lektor_ai_comfy as lek
+
+# Chunk size is a compromise, not a limit of the model: longer chunks read with
+# better prosody but are likelier to come back cut off mid-word, and a retry
+# then costs the whole chunk. Subtitle blocks — what the voice was tuned on —
+# sit well under this.
+MAX_CHARS = 240
+
+SENTENCE_GAP  = 0.35    # s of silence between chunks
+PARAGRAPH_GAP = 0.90    # s at a blank line
+
+# A dot after one of these is not the end of a sentence. Single letters are
+# handled separately ("p. kasztelana", initials).
+ABBREV = {
+    "np.", "itd.", "itp.", "tzn.", "tj.", "ok.", "dr.", "prof.", "św.",
+    "ul.", "nr.", "str.", "m.in.", "tzw.", "ds.", "godz.", "mln.", "mld.",
+}
+
+_SENT_SPLIT = re.compile(r'(?<=[.!?…])["»”\'’)\]]*\s+')
+_CLOSERS = '"»”\'’)]'
+_CLAUSE_SPLIT = re.compile(r'(?<=[,;:])\s+|\s+(?=—\s)')
+
+
+def _terminal_punct(text: str) -> str:
+    """Give the chunk an ending the model can land on.
+
+    lek._ensure_terminal_punct is written for subtitles and does not know the
+    single-character ellipsis or a closing quote, so it would turn `uciekło…`
+    into `uciekło……` and `jeść!”` into `jeść!”...`.
+    """
+    if not text:
+        return text
+    bare = text.rstrip(_CLOSERS)
+    if bare and bare[-1] in '.,!?;:…':
+        return text
+    return text + '…'
+
+
+def _prepare(text: str, dictionary) -> str:
+    text = lek._strip_sub_tags(text)
+    # A chunk cut out of the middle of a long sentence starts lowercase, which
+    # the TTS reads with the wrong intonation — the pipeline capitalises these
+    # for the same reason.
+    if text and text[0].islower():
+        text = text[0].upper() + text[1:]
+    if dictionary is not None:
+        text = dictionary.apply(text)
+    return _terminal_punct(text)
+
+
+def _is_real_boundary(before: str) -> bool:
+    """False when the dot that ended `before` belongs to an abbreviation."""
+    tail = before.rstrip('"»”\'’)]').split()[-1] if before.split() else ""
+    if not tail.endswith("."):
+        return True                       # ended on ! ? … — always a boundary
+    if tail.lower() in ABBREV:
+        return False
+    stem = tail[:-1]
+    return not (len(stem) == 1 and stem.isalpha())     # "p.", initials
+
+
+def split_sentences(paragraph: str) -> list:
+    parts, pos = [], 0
+    for m in _SENT_SPLIT.finditer(paragraph):
+        candidate = paragraph[pos:m.start()]
+        if not _is_real_boundary(candidate):
+            continue
+        parts.append(paragraph[pos:m.end()].strip())
+        pos = m.end()
+    tail = paragraph[pos:].strip()
+    if tail:
+        parts.append(tail)
+    return parts
+
+
+def _split_long(sentence: str, max_chars: int) -> list:
+    """A sentence longer than one chunk, broken at commas and dashes.
+
+    Nineteenth-century prose runs to sentences of several hundred characters;
+    handing one to the model whole is exactly the case that comes back
+    truncated.
+    """
+    pieces, current = [], ""
+    for part in _CLAUSE_SPLIT.split(sentence):
+        if current and len(current) + 1 + len(part) > max_chars:
+            pieces.append(current)
+            current = part
+        else:
+            current = f"{current} {part}".strip()
+    if current:
+        pieces.append(current)
+    return pieces
+
+
+def chunk_text(raw: str, max_chars: int = MAX_CHARS) -> list:
+    """Text -> [(chunk_text, ends_paragraph)].
+
+    Hard line wraps inside a paragraph are joined: they are an artefact of how
+    the file was typeset, not pauses the reader should hear. A blank line is a
+    real break and becomes the longer pause.
+    """
+    chunks = []
+    paragraphs = [p for p in re.split(r'\n\s*\n', raw) if p.strip()]
+    for para in paragraphs:
+        joined = re.sub(r'\s*\n\s*', ' ', para.strip())
+        joined = re.sub(r'([?!.…])(—)', r'\1 \2', joined)   # "jak?— Ja" -> "jak? — Ja"
+        joined = re.sub(r'\s{2,}', ' ', joined)
+        buf = []
+        for sentence in split_sentences(joined):
+            for piece in ([sentence] if len(sentence) <= max_chars
+                          else _split_long(sentence, max_chars)):
+                if buf and len(" ".join(buf)) + 1 + len(piece) > max_chars:
+                    chunks.append([" ".join(buf), False])
+                    buf = []
+                buf.append(piece)
+        if buf:
+            chunks.append([" ".join(buf), False])
+        if chunks:
+            chunks[-1][1] = True          # last chunk of the paragraph
+    return [(t, end) for t, end in chunks]
+
+
+def main():
+    pre = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
+    pre.add_argument("--settings", default=str(lek.SETTINGS_FILE), metavar="FILE")
+    settings_path = Path(pre.parse_known_args()[0].settings).expanduser()
+    cfg = lek.load_settings(settings_path)
+
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Turn a plain text file into a lektor-voiced audio file.",
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter)
+    p.add_argument("text", help="UTF-8 .txt file to read aloud")
+    p.add_argument("-o", "--output", default=None, metavar="FILE",
+                   help="output audio (extension picks the format); "
+                        "default <output_dir>/<stem>.mp3")
+    p.add_argument("--settings", default=str(lek.SETTINGS_FILE), metavar="FILE")
+    p.add_argument("--voice", default=cfg["voice"],
+                   help="voice name in voices/ or a path to a WAV")
+    # 1.0 rather than the settings default: the pipeline's speed-up exists to
+    # fit a clip into its subtitle slot, and prose has no slot to fit.
+    p.add_argument("--speed", type=float, default=1.0, metavar="FACTOR")
+    p.add_argument("--temperature", type=float, default=cfg["temperature"], metavar="T")
+    p.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=cfg["max_tokens"], metavar="N")
+    p.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=0, help="0 = random")
+    p.add_argument("--truncation-retries", type=int,
+                   default=cfg["truncation_retries"], metavar="N")
+    p.add_argument("--strip-leading-ms", type=float, default=cfg["strip_leading_ms"])
+    p.add_argument("--trailing-fade-ms", type=float, default=cfg["trailing_fade_ms"])
+    p.add_argument("--dictionary", default=cfg["dictionary"], metavar="FILE",
+                   help='replacement list; "" disables')
+    p.add_argument("--dictionary-extra", default=None, metavar="FILE",
+                   help="second list merged on top, for rules specific to this text")
+    numbers = p.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
+    numbers.add_argument("--normalize-numbers", dest="normalize_numbers",
+                         action="store_true", default=cfg["normalize_numbers"])
+    numbers.add_argument("--no-normalize-numbers", dest="normalize_numbers",
+                         action="store_false")
+    p.add_argument("--max-chars", type=int, default=MAX_CHARS, metavar="N",
+                   help="longest chunk handed to the model in one go")
+    p.add_argument("--sentence-gap", type=float, default=SENTENCE_GAP, metavar="S")
+    p.add_argument("--paragraph-gap", type=float, default=PARAGRAPH_GAP, metavar="S")
+    p.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=0, metavar="N",
+                   help="generate only the first N chunks (for a quick listen)")
+    p.add_argument("--resume-from", type=int, default=0, metavar="N",
+                   help="reuse clips 1..N-1 already in the job folder")
+    p.add_argument("--rebuild", action="store_true",
+                   help="re-assemble from the clips on disk, no TTS")
+    p.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true",
+                   help="print the chunks and exit without touching ComfyUI")
+    p.add_argument("--output-dir", default=cfg["output_dir"])
+    p.add_argument("--comfy-url", default=cfg["comfy_url"])
+    p.add_argument("--no-comfy-autostart", action="store_true")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    lek.COMFY_URL = args.comfy_url
+    lek.COMFY_AUTOSTART = cfg["comfy_autostart"] and not args.no_comfy_autostart
+    start_cmd = Path(cfg["comfy_start_command"]).expanduser()
+    lek.COMFY_START_SCRIPT = (start_cmd if start_cmd.is_absolute()
+                              else Path(lek.__file__).resolve().parent / start_cmd)
+
+    src = Path(args.text)
+    if not src.is_file():
+        sys.exit(f"No such text file: {src}")
+    out_dir = Path(args.output_dir)
+    clips_dir = lek.job_dir(out_dir, str(src))
+    clips_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    final = Path(args.output) if args.output else out_dir / f"{src.stem}.mp3"
+
+    print(f"  Settings: {settings_path if settings_path.is_file() else 'built-in defaults'}")
+    print(f"  Job folder: {clips_dir}")
+
+    # ── Step 1: Text -> blocks ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    print(f"\n[1/3] Splitting {src.name}…")
+    chunks = chunk_text(src.read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig"), args.max_chars)
+    if not chunks:
+        sys.exit(f"{src} has no text.")
+    if args.limit:
+        chunks = chunks[:args.limit]
+        print(f"      --limit {args.limit}: only the first {len(chunks)} chunk(s).")
+
+    wanted = []
+    if args.dictionary.strip():
+        wanted.append(lek.resolve_dictionary_path(args.dictionary))
+    if args.dictionary_extra and args.dictionary_extra.strip():
+        wanted.append(Path(args.dictionary_extra).expanduser())
+    dictionary = lek.Dictionary.load_all(wanted) if wanted else None
+    if dictionary is not None:
+        for path, count in dictionary.sources:
+            print(f"  Dictionary: {count} rule(s) from {path}")
+
+    # The synthetic timings are placeholders — every clip asks to start at 0 and
+    # generate_clips pushes it after the previous one. The real spacing is
+    # applied after generation, when the durations are known.
+    blocks, gaps = [], []
+    for text, ends_para in chunks:
+        clean = _prepare(text, dictionary)
+        blocks.append((0.0, 0.0, clean))
+        gaps.append(args.paragraph_gap if ends_para else args.sentence_gap)
+    if dictionary is not None and dictionary.hits:
+        print(f"      {dictionary.hits} dictionary replacement(s) applied.")
+
+
+    if args.normalize_numbers:
+        py = Path(cfg["normalizer_python"]).expanduser()
+        if not py.is_absolute():
+            py = Path(lek.__file__).resolve().parent / py
+        llm = Path(cfg["normalizer_llm"]).expanduser() if cfg["normalizer_llm"] else None
+        if llm and not llm.is_absolute():
+            llm = Path(lek.__file__).resolve().parent / llm
+        blocks = lek.normalize_block_numbers(blocks, py, cfg["normalizer_timeout"],
+                                             free_vram=cfg["free_comfy_vram"],
+                                             llm_dir=llm)
+
+    chars = sum(len(t) for _s, _e, t in blocks)
+    print(f"      {len(blocks)} chunk(s), {chars} characters "
+          f"(longest {max(len(t) for _s, _e, t in blocks)}).")
+
+    preview = clips_dir / "tts_input.txt"
+    preview.write_text("\n\n".join(f"[{i + 1}] {t}" for i, (_s, _e, t) in enumerate(blocks)),
+                       encoding="utf-8")
+    print(f"      Saved to {preview} for inspection.")
+
+    if args.dry_run:
+        for i, (_s, _e, text) in enumerate(blocks, 1):
+            print(f"  [{i:4d}] ({len(text):3d}) {text}")
+        return
+
+    # ── Step 2: TTS ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    if args.rebuild:
+        clips = [(0.0, path) for path in
+                 sorted(clips_dir.glob("clip_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].flac"))]
+        if not clips:
+            sys.exit(f"--rebuild: no clips in {clips_dir}.")
+        print(f"\n[2/3] Rebuilding from {len(clips)} existing clip(s) — no TTS.")
+    else:
+        print(f"\n[2/3] Generating TTS ({len(blocks)} clips, speed {args.speed}×)…")
+        wav_path = Path(args.voice)
+        if not wav_path.is_file():
+            wav_path = lek.VOICE_PROMPTS_DIR / f"{args.voice}.wav"
+        if not wav_path.is_file():
+            sys.exit(f"Voice WAV not found: {wav_path}")
+        print(f"  Voice: {wav_path.name}")
+
+        # A cold backend answers the first submission with a connection error,
+        # which run_workflow would count against the clip's crash budget.
+        if not lek.wait_for_backend(2.0):
+            print("  ComfyUI is not up — starting it…")
+            if not (lek.COMFY_AUTOSTART and lek.start_comfy_backend(lek.COMFY_START_SCRIPT)
+                    and lek.wait_for_backend(lek.BACKEND_HEALTH_TIMEOUT)):
+                sys.exit(f"ComfyUI did not come up at {lek.COMFY_URL}.")
+
+        base_seed = args.seed if args.seed != 0 else random.randint(1, 2**31 - 1)
+        print(f"  Base seed: {base_seed}")
+        voice_filename, voice_ref_text = lek.upload_voice_wav(wav_path)
+
+        clips = lek.generate_clips(blocks, voice_filename, voice_ref_text,
+                                   base_seed, args.speed, clips_dir,
+                                   strip_leading_ms=args.strip_leading_ms,
+                                   resume_from=args.resume_from,
+                                   temperature=args.temperature,
+                                   trailing_fade_ms=args.trailing_fade_ms,
+                                   max_new_tokens=args.max_tokens,
+                                   retries=args.truncation_retries)
+        if cfg["free_comfy_vram"]:
+            lek.free_comfy_vram()
+
+    # ── Step 3: Lay the clips end to end ─────────────────────────────────────
+    print(f"\n[3/3] Assembling…")
+    timed, cursor = [], 0.0
+    for _start, path in clips:
+        # generate_clips skips a clip that repeatedly killed the backend, so the
+        # gap belongs to the block the clip came from, not to its position here.
+        idx = int(re.search(r'(\d+)', path.stem).group(1)) - 1
+        timed.append((cursor, path))
+        cursor += lek.get_audio_duration(path)
+        cursor += gaps[idx] if idx < len(gaps) else args.sentence_gap
+
+    assembled = clips_dir / "tts_assembled.flac"
+    lek.assemble_timed_audio(timed, str(assembled))
+
+    final.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    if final.suffix.lower() == ".flac":
+        assembled.replace(final)
+    else:
+        lek._run(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", str(assembled), "-b:a", "192k", str(final)],
+                 f"Encoding {final.name}")
+
+    total = lek.get_audio_duration(final)
+    print(f"\nDone! Output: {final}  ({int(total // 60)}:{int(total % 60):02d}, "
+          f"{final.stat().st_size // 1024} KB)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()