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Choosing a Workflow

Select Workflow screen Select Workflow screen

Achew asks you to pick a workflow after you select a book. The four options differ in how much of the chapter data is regenerated versus reused.

Which workflow should I use?

  1. Do you have any partially accurate chapter data for this book? (from ABS, Audnexus, embedded metadata, or another Source)

  2. Which part of the data is accurate?

    • Everything, I just want to tidy up or add a few missing chapters → Quick Edit.
    • Titles are fine, timestamps are slightly off → Realign Chapters.
    • Timestamps are fine, titles are missing or wrong → Regenerate Titles.
    • Both are partially wrong → Start with Smart Detect and reconcile with other Sources later in the chapter editor.

The four workflows at a glance

Workflow Detects cues? Transcribes titles? Requires existing Source? Example use case
Smart Detect Yes Optional No Books with no chapters or completely wrong chapters
Realign Chapters Partial No Yes Timings are off by up to a few minutes
Regenerate Titles No Yes Yes Chapters are only numbers or are missing titles
Quick Edit No No Yes Quick manual tweaks or adding a couple missing chapters

"Dramatized" toggle

Smart Detect and Realign both offer a Dramatized toggle for audiobooks that contain music and/or sound effects, i.e. dramatized audiobooks. When enabled, Achew uses a slower voice-activity-based detection strategy that is significantly more accurate for non-speech audio.

Existing chapter source selection

Three of the four workflows (Realign, Regenerate, Quick Edit) require you to pick an existing full chapter source. Clicking on the chapter count for a source will display the full chapter information including timestamps and titles.

View source chapters View source chapters

If the source you want is not shown, click the Add Chapter Source button. This will open a dialog where you can upload JSON, CSV, CUE, TXT, or EPUB files containing chapter data, or you can search for an Audnexus source by title and/or author. See Chapter Sources.

Changing your mind

You can back out of any workflow using the Back Menu (the Back button at the top-left of the screen). It lists the earlier steps you can return to, plus a New Audiobook option that ends the current session and takes you back to book selection. Just be aware that any progress made after the chosen step will be lost.