DeckTalk turns a Markdown script, HTML slides and your voice into one narrated mp4. You write the
words in script.md and the pictures in an HTML page. cues.json names the spoken phrase each
picture lands on, and the finished film is measured against that promise before you are told it is
built.
Start here
Two pages take you from an empty machine to a section of your own.- Quickstart installs DeckTalk and builds the starter film with no account and no spend.
- Your first deck writes one section across the four files, then checks, builds and verifies it.
decktalk init writes.
Understand the model
- How it works walks the six stages, from the spoken takes to the measured film.
- Cues explains how a phrase from the script becomes a second on a section clock.
- The page contract is how a slide tells the recorder what it is doing, and Design a slide turns that into a slide worth watching.
- Writing for the ear gives every picture a word worth landing on.
- Sound covers the music, the ambience bed and the effects.
What a section can be
- A page of slides, where every reveal lands on its word: Your first deck.
- A conversation between voices, each turn its own take: Write a dialogue.
- Something that moves between two words, or a picture a program draws: Things that move.
- A video of your own, playing with its own sound: Play a clip.
- Any frame shape, wide, square or vertical: Design a slide.
Look something up
- CLI reference lists every command, flag, exit code, error code and finding code.
- Configuration lists every setting with its range, its unit and the failures it moves.
- Verify defines every measurement the finished film is judged by.
- What leaves your machine names every host DeckTalk contacts and what each request carries.
- Pages and programs you did not write says how far a recording trusts a page and which programs a project may start.
Building with an agent? The command line is the instruction set and it documents itself:
decktalk --help, decktalk schema, decktalk schema setting and decktalk status --json answer most of
it. Skills covers the craft those four calls cannot say, and the reference
card puts every file, command and rule on one page.