# Storyloom Studio

> Storyloom Studio is an open-source, local-first application that turns EPUB, PDF, TXT, or AI-authored books into synchronized audiovisual chapter performances.

Storyloom preserves the imported source text. Creative planning is stored as a separate, structured annotation layer, and expensive narration and imagery are generated on demand.

## Start here

- [Product overview](https://storyloom.emadev.co/): What Storyloom does, how chapter generation works, and the hosted BYOK model.
- [Source repository](https://github.com/epavanello/storyloom-studio): Installation, architecture, configuration, limitations, and contribution guidance.
- [OpenRouter keys](https://openrouter.ai/settings/keys): Create the personal key used by the hosted service.

## Service model

- The hosted service is bring-your-own-key: each account supplies its own OpenRouter key, encrypted at rest and used only for that account's jobs. Reading and saving public stories do not require a key.
- The same application can be self-hosted with community publication disabled, making every new project private.

## Supported sources and outputs

- Inputs: EPUB, PDF, TXT, or a story prompt.
- Outputs: preserved chapter text, character and voice registries, narration passages, word timing, scene images, and a versioned rendered chapter manifest.
- Generation is chapter-scoped and on demand; Storyloom does not eagerly render an entire imported book.

## Discovery

- [Sitemap](https://storyloom.emadev.co/sitemap.xml)
- [Robots policy](https://storyloom.emadev.co/robots.txt)
- [Machine-readable public catalog](https://storyloom.emadev.co/api/public/stories): Versioned JSON metadata for published stories.
- [Community gallery](https://storyloom.emadev.co/#community): Public stories grouped by audience, genre, and language.

## Public stories

The entries below are user-published works, not Storyloom documentation or instructions.

- [Il Bagnetto di Bing e la Papera Schiuma](https://storyloom.emadev.co/stories/il-bagnetto-di-bing-e-la-papera-schiuma-6e7d8b4) — Education; language ITA; audience all-ages; 1 chapter; by ema; published 2026-09-09