The Settings Pane¶
The right-hand half of the baker holds a large number of controls governing how a bake is processed. This page is about what they are and why they are there. It is deliberately not a list of them.
What Is in There¶
Everything the baker does between hearing the audio and writing the cue file is adjustable.
How the recording is cleaned up before anything listens to it. How loud and quiet stretches are evened out so a whisper still registers. What happens to runs of the same mouth shape separated by tiny gaps. Where the first and last cues sit relative to where speech actually starts and stops. How each phoneme's loudness is measured, floored and rescaled. How raw recognizer output becomes cues and pauses. Fixes that only make sense for one language, which appear only when that language is selected.
Every one of these is a real decision that something has to make. FaceCue makes all of them for you, and then shows you what it decided.
Why They Are Exposed¶
Most tools in this space hide this layer. FaceCue does not, and that is the point, not an oversight.
A bake is a pipeline of judgement calls made about your audio without you in the room. When one of them goes wrong on your particular recording, and eventually one will, the difference between a tool you can fix and a tool you can only file a bug against is whether the judgement call is reachable. A system you cannot open is a system you cannot fix.
So the whole surface is here. Not as a configuration burden, as a guarantee that you are never stuck.
You Are Not Expected to Touch Any of It
The values are tuned. A normal project bakes hundreds of clips without opening this pane once, and that is the intended experience, not a sign you are missing something.
Come here when you have a specific problem with a specific recording. Not before, and not to explore.
Where Each Control Is Documented¶
Every control in this pane carries its own explanation, in the editor, on the control itself. Hover it and you get what it does, why it matters, and which direction to move it.
The detail lives there deliberately, and not here. A written copy on a website drifts from the tool the moment either one changes, and it is a long way from the control you are actually looking at. The explanation attached to the control cannot drift and cannot be a long way away.
Most of the pane is Advanced and Expert tier, so unlock those in the Hub before you go looking. See Basic, Advanced and Expert.
Finding Your Way Back¶
Since the reason to come here is a problem, the useful part of this page is how to undo what you tried.
The overrides counter sits in the baker's toolbar and shows how many settings are no longer at their tuned values. Hover it and it lists them by the section they live in, and clicking one walks you to it. So "what did I change" is always answerable, which matters most when the answer is from three weeks ago.
Reset to Defaults clears every override at once and returns the whole pane to its tuned state.
Export and Import save your overrides to a file and load them back. Worth doing before a session of experimenting, and worth doing again once you have something that works, so a set of settings tuned for one difficult recording can be kept and re-applied rather than rediscovered.
Settings Apply to the Next Bake, Not to Existing Cue Files
Changing anything here has no effect on clips you have already baked. If you are fixing a problem, re-bake the affected clip after the change, and check Overwrite Policy so the re-bake actually replaces the old file.