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Updates, announcements, and writing from the Castwright team.

• Two more languages, and the whole show on your tablet: what's new in v1.14

  July 24, 2026

  Chinese and Japanese join the cast, the companion app opens into two panes on a tablet, an undownloaded chapter plays instantly over your own network, and the reading stays on your machine by default.

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• A net under every language: what's new in v1.13

  July 12, 2026

  Non-English books get the safety net English always had — a fallback voice when a character's own isn't ready, with Coqui XTTS joining as a casting engine. Plus phone and tablet listening that works the moment you install.

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• One click, and it actually installs: Castwright on Pinokio

  July 11, 2026

  The one-click Pinokio install now runs the whole way through — install, start, and a first launch that comes up already configured. No terminal, no Python, nothing to set up first.

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• Captions, and a transcript that owns its mistakes: what's new in v1.12

  July 10, 2026

  Export captions from any finished book — SRT or VTT, down to the word. Plus a transcript that fixes the speaker mix-ups it can prove, script-review notes that survive a reload, and a voice-design hiccup that now recovers on its own.

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• A quality you can see: what's new in v1.11.0

  July 8, 2026

  Confirm a cast and land with your characters, not the manuscript. Every book now carries a visible, exportable quality receipt. And a long overnight run holds its footing from the first chapter to the last.

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• Built for the card you have

  July 7, 2026

  Castwright runs on a 6 GB card, is tuned for 8 GB, and puts a second graphics card to work — with memory protection on every path, so it stops cleanly instead of crashing.

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• Your cast, in Audiobookshelf

  July 5, 2026

  Audiobookshelf runs your audiobook library on your own server. Here's how Castwright sends a finished full-cast book straight into it — series, cover and metadata and all.

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• A cast that remembers: what's new in v1.10.0

  July 4, 2026

  The cast you designed now carries across a whole series — and shows it. Put a second graphics card to work, perform in five languages, and hear emotion that never leaves character.

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• The beta keeps moving: what's new in v1.9.0

  June 21, 2026

  The first release since the doors opened. Listen from any browser in the house, keep your place across devices, catch a bad take on the waveform, and meet a cast that reads truer — Russian books included.

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• The public beta is open

  June 16, 2026

  Download Castwright free — every book, the full cast, series memory included. Installers and the Cast Pass arrive at launch.

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• Why we built Castwright

  June 8, 2026

  Single-narrator audiobooks flatten fiction. Here is what a full cast restores — and why we built a machine to summon one.

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