Speech Cabinet

DOLORES DEI – Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don't form us anymore: us, our love, our unborn daughters.

Create vertical videos in the style of Disco Elysium dialogues.

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Features

I aimed to make an intuitive UI, so when you are looking for a feature you will probably find it. If you want to read what the app is capable of, check out the Reddit post.

Development

How the app works

This is a Next.js app.

Animation is made purely with CSS/JS, but the videos are rendered on server: a worker starts a browser instance and records a webpage.

Running

1. Create a Postgres database.

2. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the variables. (Auth settings are not used for now.)

3. If you want to enable background music for videos, save OST music files to public/music. They must have a name in form Sea Power - Instrument of Surrender.m4a. I don’t include the music in the repo to avoid copyright issues.

4. Install dependencies:

   yarn

5. Run:

   yarn dev

6. Run the video rendering worker separately:

   yarn dev:work

   (The worker requires maximum Node 20 because the library for rendering videos use a deprecated function.)

Run with Docker

The Docker image should build normally—but not on macOS, apparently? Downloading Chrome in Docker doesn’t work on my macOS for some reason.

Contributions

Suggestions and contributions are welcome!