Merge pull request #102 from feat/multilingual-tier3-support

Add multilingual reader and TTS support

- Detect, normalize, persist, and expose document language across EPUB, PDF, HTML, TTS segment, and audiobook workflows.
- Forward supported language inputs to TTS providers, warn on voice/document language mismatches, and prevent incompatible Kokoro voice selections.
- Centralize Unicode-aware token alignment so EPUB, HTML, and PDF highlighting handles multilingual text, including Japanese matching.
- Standardize shared select, checkbox, button, input, menu, and popover primitives across reader, settings, admin, authentication, and public UI surfaces.
- Update README, introduction docs, and landing-page copy to describe multilingual narration and highlighting.

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 # 📄🔊 OpenReader
 
-OpenReader is an open source, self-host-friendly text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js for **EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX** with synchronized read-along playback.
+OpenReader is an open-source, self-host-friendly text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js for **EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX** with multilingual, synchronized read-along playback.
 
 > Previously named **OpenReader-WebUI**.
 
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ OpenReader is an open source, self-host-friendly text-to-speech document reader
 - ⏱️ **Word-by-word highlighting** via ONNX Whisper alignment through the compute worker control plane (NATS JetStream-backed).
 - ⚡ **Segment-based read-along** for EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX — sentence-aware TTS with cached audio segments, background preloading, and resumable playback.
 - 🎯 **Multi-provider TTS** — self-hosted OpenAI-compatible servers (Kokoro-FastAPI, KittenTTS-FastAPI, Orpheus-FastAPI) or cloud APIs (OpenAI, Replicate, DeepInfra).
+- 🌐 **Multilingual support** — choose a document language for language-aware narration and highlighting. Available languages depend on the configured TTS provider and voice.
 - 🎧 **Audiobook export** in `m4b`/`mp3` with resumable chapter processing.
 - 🗂️ **Flexible backend** — embedded SeaweedFS or S3-compatible storage, SQLite or Postgres, server library import, and device sync.
 - 🐳 **Self-host friendly** — Docker (amd64/arm64), built-in auth/session support, and automatic startup migrations.

docs-site/docs/introduction.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: Introduction
 slug: /
 ---
 
-OpenReader is an open source text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js. It provides a read-along experience with narration for **EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX documents**.
+OpenReader is an open-source text-to-speech document reader built with Next.js. It provides a multilingual read-along experience with narration for **EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX documents**.
 
 > Previously named **OpenReader-WebUI**.
 
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ It supports multiple TTS providers including OpenAI, Replicate, DeepInfra, and c
 - 🎯 **Multi-Provider TTS Support**
   - Self-hosted: [**Kokoro-FastAPI**](https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI) (multi-voice combinations), [**KittenTTS-FastAPI**](https://github.com/richardr1126/KittenTTS-FastAPI), [**Orpheus-FastAPI**](https://github.com/Lex-au/Orpheus-FastAPI), or any custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint
   - Cloud: [**OpenAI**](https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#transcription-and-speech) (`tts-1`, `tts-1-hd`, `gpt-4o-mini-tts`), [**Replicate**](https://replicate.com/explore) (built-in catalog + any model ID), [**DeepInfra**](https://deepinfra.com/models/text-to-speech) (Kokoro-82M and others)
+- 🌐 **Multilingual Support**
+  - Choose a document language for language-aware narration and highlighting
+  - Available languages depend on the configured provider, model, and voice
 - 🎧 **Audiobook Export** in `m4b`/`mp3` with resumable chapter generation
 - 🗂️ **Flexible Backend** — embedded SeaweedFS or S3-compatible storage, SQLite or Postgres, server library import, and device sync
 - 🔐 **Auth and User Isolation** — auth is required in v4+, with optional anonymous auth sessions for guest flows

src/app/(app)/epub/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { RateLimitBanner } from '@/components/auth/RateLimitBanner';
 import { useAuthRateLimit } from '@/contexts/AuthRateLimitContext';
 import { useFeatureFlag } from '@/contexts/RuntimeConfigContext';
 import { useUnmountCleanupRef } from '@/hooks/useUnmountCleanupRef';
+import { useDocumentLanguage } from '@/hooks/useDocumentLanguage';
 import { ButtonLink } from '@/components/ui';
 import { useEpubDocument } from './useEpubDocument';
 
@@ -36,8 +37,10 @@ export default function EPUBPage() {
     createFullAudioBook: createEPUBAudioBook,
     regenerateChapter: regenerateEPUBChapter,
     bookRef,
+    metadataLanguage,
   } = epubState;
-  const { stop } = useTTS();
+  const { stop, setDocumentLanguage } = useTTS();
+  const { language, updateLanguage } = useDocumentLanguage(routeDocumentId);
   const { isAtLimit } = useAuthRateLimit();
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(true);
@@ -106,6 +109,10 @@ export default function EPUBPage() {
 
   useUnmountCleanupRef(clearCurrDoc);
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setDocumentLanguage(language === 'auto' ? metadataLanguage ?? 'auto' : language);
+  }, [language, metadataLanguage, setDocumentLanguage]);
+
   // Compute available height = viewport - (header height + tts bar height)
   useEffect(() => {
     const compute = () => {
@@ -249,6 +256,11 @@ export default function EPUBPage() {
         epub
         isOpen={activeSidebar === 'settings'}
         setIsOpen={(isOpen) => setActiveSidebar((prev) => isOpen ? 'settings' : (prev === 'settings' ? null : prev))}
+        language={language}
+        detectedLanguage={metadataLanguage}
+        onLanguageChange={(nextLanguage) => {
+          void updateLanguage(nextLanguage);
+        }}
       />
       <SegmentsSidebar
         isOpen={activeSidebar === 'segments'}

src/app/(app)/epub/[id]/useEpubDocument.ts

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import type {
 import type { AudiobookGenerationSettings, TTSSegmentLocator } from '@/types/client';
 import { isStableEpubLocator } from '@/types/client';
 import type { CanonicalTtsSegment } from '@/lib/shared/tts-segment-plan';
+import { normalizeOptionalLanguageTag } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 export interface EpubDocumentState {
   currDocData: ArrayBuffer | undefined;
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ export interface EpubDocumentState {
   currDocPages: number | undefined;
   currDocPage: number | string;
   currDocText: string | undefined;
+  metadataLanguage: string | null;
   isPlaybackReady: boolean;
   setCurrentDocument: (id: string) => Promise<void>;
   clearCurrDoc: () => void;
@@ -93,7 +95,16 @@ export interface EpubDocumentState {
  * Route-local EPUB reader hook.
  */
 export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
-  const { setText: setTTSText, currDocPage, currDocPages, setCurrDocPages, stop, skipToLocation, setIsEPUB } = useTTS();
+  const {
+    setText: setTTSText,
+    currDocPage,
+    currDocPages,
+    setCurrDocPages,
+    stop,
+    skipToLocation,
+    setIsEPUB,
+    resolvedLanguage,
+  } = useTTS();
   // Configuration context to get TTS settings
   const {
     apiKey,
@@ -107,6 +118,7 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
   const [currDocData, setCurrDocData] = useState<ArrayBuffer>();
   const [currDocName, setCurrDocName] = useState<string>();
   const [currDocText, setCurrDocText] = useState<string>();
+  const [metadataLanguage, setMetadataLanguage] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [isPlaybackReady, setIsPlaybackReady] = useState(false);
   // Mirror state into a ref so resolveEpubLocator (registered once with
   // TTSContext via a stable callback) can always read the latest page text
@@ -145,6 +157,7 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
     currentWordHighlightCfiRef: currentWordHighlightCfi,
     renderedTextMapsRef,
     wordHighlightMapCacheRef,
+    language: resolvedLanguage,
   });
 
   useEffect(() => () => {
@@ -162,6 +175,7 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
     setCurrDocData(undefined);
     setCurrDocName(undefined);
     setCurrDocText(undefined);
+    setMetadataLanguage(null);
     setIsPlaybackReady(false);
     setCurrDocPages(undefined);
     isEPUBSetOnce.current = false;
@@ -183,6 +197,9 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
   const setCurrentDocument = useCallback(async (id: string): Promise<void> => {
     try {
       setIsPlaybackReady(false);
+      setMetadataLanguage(null);
+      bookRef.current = null;
+      renditionRef.current = undefined;
       const meta = await getDocumentMetadata(id);
       if (!meta) {
         clearCurrDoc();
@@ -370,8 +387,19 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
   });
 
   const setRendition = useCallback((rendition: Rendition) => {
-    bookRef.current = rendition.book;
+    const book = rendition.book;
+    bookRef.current = book;
     renditionRef.current = rendition;
+    void book.loaded.metadata
+      .then((metadata) => {
+        if (bookRef.current !== book) return;
+        setMetadataLanguage(normalizeOptionalLanguageTag(metadata.language));
+      })
+      .catch((error) => {
+        if (bookRef.current !== book) return;
+        setMetadataLanguage(null);
+        console.warn('Failed to read EPUB language metadata:', error);
+      });
   }, []);
 
   const handleLocationChanged = useEPUBLocationController({
@@ -396,6 +424,7 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
       currDocPages,
       currDocPage,
       currDocText,
+      metadataLanguage,
       isPlaybackReady,
       clearCurrDoc,
       extractPageText,
@@ -422,6 +451,7 @@ export function useEpubDocument(documentId?: string): EpubDocumentState {
       currDocPages,
       currDocPage,
       currDocText,
+      metadataLanguage,
       isPlaybackReady,
       clearCurrDoc,
       extractPageText,

src/app/(app)/html/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { AudiobookExportModal } from '@/components/AudiobookExportModal';
 import { useAuthRateLimit } from '@/contexts/AuthRateLimitContext';
 import { useFeatureFlag } from '@/contexts/RuntimeConfigContext';
 import { useUnmountCleanupRef } from '@/hooks/useUnmountCleanupRef';
+import { useDocumentLanguage } from '@/hooks/useDocumentLanguage';
 import { ButtonLink } from '@/components/ui';
 import type { TTSAudiobookChapter } from '@/types/tts';
 import type { AudiobookGenerationSettings } from '@/types/client';
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ export default function HTMLPage() {
   const canExportAudiobook = useFeatureFlag('enableAudiobookExport');
   const { id } = useParams();
   const router = useRouter();
+  const routeDocumentId = typeof id === 'string' ? id : undefined;
   const htmlState = useHtmlDocument();
   const {
     setCurrentDocument,
@@ -38,7 +40,8 @@ export default function HTMLPage() {
     createFullAudioBook,
     regenerateChapter,
   } = htmlState;
-  const { stop } = useTTS();
+  const { stop, setDocumentLanguage } = useTTS();
+  const { language, updateLanguage } = useDocumentLanguage(routeDocumentId);
   const { isAtLimit } = useAuthRateLimit();
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(true);
@@ -106,6 +109,10 @@ export default function HTMLPage() {
 
   useUnmountCleanupRef(clearCurrDoc);
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setDocumentLanguage(language);
+  }, [language, setDocumentLanguage]);
+
   // Compute available height = viewport - (header height + tts bar height)
   useEffect(() => {
     const compute = () => {
@@ -240,6 +247,10 @@ export default function HTMLPage() {
         html
         isOpen={activeSidebar === 'settings'}
         setIsOpen={(isOpen) => setActiveSidebar((prev) => isOpen ? 'settings' : (prev === 'settings' ? null : prev))}
+        language={language}
+        onLanguageChange={(nextLanguage) => {
+          void updateLanguage(nextLanguage);
+        }}
       />
       <SegmentsSidebar
         isOpen={activeSidebar === 'segments'}

src/app/(app)/pdf/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -493,6 +493,14 @@ export default function PDFViewerPage() {
       <DocumentSettings
         isOpen={activeSidebar === 'settings'}
         setIsOpen={(isOpen) => setActiveSidebar((prev) => isOpen ? 'settings' : (prev === 'settings' ? null : prev))}
+        language={documentSettings.language ?? 'auto'}
+        onLanguageChange={(language) => {
+          void updateDocumentSettings({
+            ...documentSettings,
+            schemaVersion: 1,
+            language,
+          });
+        }}
         pdf={{
           parseStatus,
           parsedOverlayEnabled,

src/app/(app)/pdf/[id]/usePdfDocument.ts

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ export interface PdfDocumentState {
       parsedDocument?: ParsedPdfDocument | null;
       locator?: TTSSegmentLocator | null;
       useBlockGeometryOnly?: boolean;
+      language?: string;
     },
   ) => void;
   clearHighlights: () => void;
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ export function usePdfDocument(): PdfDocumentState {
     currDocPages,
     setCurrDocPages,
     setIsEPUB,
+    setDocumentLanguage,
     registerVisualPageChangeHandler,
   } = useTTS();
   const {
@@ -156,6 +158,10 @@ export function usePdfDocument(): PdfDocumentState {
   const [parseProgress, setParseProgress] = useState<PdfParseProgress | null>(null);
   const [, setActiveParseOpId] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [documentSettings, setDocumentSettings] = useState<DocumentSettings>(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setDocumentLanguage(documentSettings.language ?? 'auto');
+    lastPreparedPlaybackPageRef.current = null;
+  }, [documentSettings.language, setDocumentLanguage]);
   const [parsedOverlayEnabled, setParsedOverlayEnabled] = useState(false);
   const [isAudioCombining] = useState(false);
   const audiobookAdapter = useMemo(() => createPdfAudiobookSourceAdapter({

src/app/(app)/signin/page.tsx

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { useFeatureFlag } from '@/contexts/RuntimeConfigContext';
 import { showPrivacyModal } from '@/components/PrivacyModal';
 import { GithubIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { LoadingSpinner } from '@/components/Spinner';
-import { Button, Field, Input, Surface } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, Checkbox, Field, InlineButton, Input, Surface } from '@/components/ui';
 
 function SessionExpiredLoader({ setSessionExpired }: { setSessionExpired: (v: boolean) => void }) {
   const searchParams = useSearchParams();
@@ -169,11 +169,9 @@ function SignInContent() {
 
           {/* Remember Me */}
           <label className="flex items-center gap-2 cursor-pointer">
-            <input
+            <Checkbox
-              type="checkbox"
               checked={rememberMe}
               onChange={(e) => setRememberMe(e.target.checked)}
-              className="rounded border-muted text-accent focus:ring-accent-line"
             />
             <span className="text-sm text-foreground">Remember me</span>
           </label>
@@ -238,12 +236,9 @@ function SignInContent() {
           )}
           <p className="text-xs text-soft">
             By signing in, you agree to our{' '}
-            <button
+            <InlineButton onClick={() => showPrivacyModal()}>
-              onClick={() => showPrivacyModal()}
-              className="underline hover:text-foreground"
-            >
               Privacy Policy
-            </button>
+            </InlineButton>
           </p>
         </div>
       </Surface>

src/app/(app)/signup/page.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { useAuthConfig, useAuthRateLimit } from '@/contexts/AuthRateLimitContext
 import { useFeatureFlag } from '@/contexts/RuntimeConfigContext';
 import { showPrivacyModal } from '@/components/PrivacyModal';
 import { LoadingSpinner } from '@/components/Spinner';
-import { Button, Field, IconButton, Input, Surface } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, Field, IconButton, InlineButton, Input, Surface } from '@/components/ui';
 import toast from 'react-hot-toast';
 
 export default function SignUpPage() {
@@ -241,12 +241,9 @@ export default function SignUpPage() {
           </p>
           <p className="text-xs text-soft">
             By creating an account, you agree to our{' '}
-            <button
+            <InlineButton onClick={() => showPrivacyModal()}>
-              onClick={() => showPrivacyModal()}
-              className="underline hover:text-foreground"
-            >
               Privacy Policy
-            </button>
+            </InlineButton>
           </p>
         </div>
       </Surface>

src/app/(public)/page.tsx

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import { ButtonAnchor, ButtonLink } from '@/components/ui';
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: 'Open Source Read-Along Workspace',
   description:
-    'OpenReader converts EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX files into synchronized read-along audio with multi-provider text-to-speech support.',
+    'OpenReader converts EPUB, PDF, TXT, MD, and DOCX files into multilingual, synchronized read-along audio with multi-provider text-to-speech support.',
   keywords:
-    'OpenReader, document reader, PDF read aloud, EPUB read aloud, text to speech, OpenAI compatible TTS, self-hosted reader',
+    'OpenReader, document reader, multilingual text to speech, PDF read aloud, EPUB read aloud, OpenAI compatible TTS, self-hosted reader',
   alternates: {
     canonical: '/',
   },
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
     siteName: 'OpenReader',
     title: 'OpenReader | Read documents with synchronized audio',
     description:
-      'Upload documents and turn them into a synchronized listening experience with word-level highlighting and audiobook export.',
+      'Upload documents and turn them into a multilingual, synchronized listening experience with word-level highlighting and audiobook export.',
     images: [
       {
         url: '/web-app-manifest-512x512.png',
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export default async function LandingPage() {
             <p className="public-hero-copy">
               OpenReader turns EPUB, PDF, TXT, Markdown, and DOCX into a
               synchronized read-along surface, reading your original file in a
-              native viewer with genuine text-to-speech, word-level
+              native viewer with multilingual text-to-speech, language-aware
               highlighting, and audiobook export. It&rsquo;s open source, and
               entirely yours to self-host.
             </p>
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ export default async function LandingPage() {
               <span className="public-reader-dot" data-tone="b" />
               <span className="public-reader-dot" data-tone="c" />
               <span className="public-reader-file">wizard-of-oz.epub</span>
-              <span className="public-reader-voice">Kokoro · af_sky</span>
+              <span className="public-reader-voice">English · Kokoro · af_sky</span>
             </div>
 
             <div className="public-reader-body">
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ export default async function LandingPage() {
               <p>
                 Choose a provider and model: hosted OpenAI, Replicate, or
                 DeepInfra, or your own self-hosted Kokoro, KittenTTS, or Orpheus
-                server. Set the speed to your pace.
+                server. Set the document language, choose a compatible voice,
+                and adjust the speed to your pace.
               </p>
             </li>
             <li className="public-step">
@@ -251,11 +252,11 @@ export default async function LandingPage() {
             </article>
 
             <article className="public-feature">
-              <span className="public-feature-kicker">Voices</span>
+              <span className="public-feature-kicker">Languages</span>
-              <h3>Multi-provider TTS</h3>
+              <h3>Multilingual support</h3>
               <p>
-                Mix cloud APIs with OpenAI-compatible local servers. Bring your
+                Choose a document language for language-aware narration,
-                own keys and endpoints, with no lock-in to a single vendor.
+                highlighting, and compatible voice selection.
               </p>
             </article>
 

src/app/api/audiobook/chapter/route.ts

@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
         normalizedExistingSettings.nativeSpeed !== normalizedIncomingSettings.nativeSpeed ||
         normalizedExistingSettings.postSpeed !== normalizedIncomingSettings.postSpeed ||
         normalizedExistingSettings.format !== normalizedIncomingSettings.format ||
-        (normalizedExistingSettings.ttsInstructions || '') !== (normalizedIncomingSettings.ttsInstructions || '');
+        (normalizedExistingSettings.ttsInstructions || '') !== (normalizedIncomingSettings.ttsInstructions || '') ||
+        (normalizedExistingSettings.language || '') !== (normalizedIncomingSettings.language || '');
       if (mismatch) {
         return NextResponse.json({ error: 'Audiobook settings mismatch', settings: normalizedExistingSettings }, { status: 409 });
       }
@@ -596,6 +597,7 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
         format: 'mp3',
         model,
         instructions,
+        language: mergedSettings?.language,
         provider,
         apiKey: openApiKey,
         baseUrl: openApiBaseUrl,

src/app/api/tts/segments/ensure/route.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import { getUpstreamRetryAfterSeconds, getUpstreamStatus } from '@/lib/server/tt
 import { userWhisperAlignJob } from '@/lib/server/jobs/user-whisper-align-job';
 import { getResolvedRuntimeConfig } from '@/lib/server/runtime-config';
 import { resolveTtsModelForProvider } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
+import { normalizeLanguageTag } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import { resolveSegmentAudioUrls } from '@/lib/server/tts/segment-audio-urls';
 import { createRequestLogger, errorToLog } from '@/lib/server/logger';
 import { errorResponse } from '@/lib/server/errors/next-response';
@@ -62,6 +63,8 @@ function parseSettings(value: unknown): TTSSegmentSettings | null {
   if (typeof rec.voice !== 'string') return null;
   if (!Number.isFinite(Number(rec.nativeSpeed))) return null;
   if (rec.ttsInstructions !== undefined && typeof rec.ttsInstructions !== 'string') return null;
+  if (rec.language !== undefined && typeof rec.language !== 'string') return null;
+  if (typeof rec.language === 'string' && rec.language.length > 64) return null;
 
   return {
     providerRef: rec.providerRef,
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ function parseSettings(value: unknown): TTSSegmentSettings | null {
     voice: rec.voice,
     nativeSpeed: Number(rec.nativeSpeed),
     ...(typeof rec.ttsInstructions === 'string' ? { ttsInstructions: rec.ttsInstructions } : {}),
+    ...(typeof rec.language === 'string' ? { language: normalizeLanguageTag(rec.language) } : {}),
   };
 }
 
@@ -406,6 +410,7 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
             alignment = await userWhisperAlignJob({
               audioObjectKey: existing.audioKey,
               text: segment.text,
+              lang: effectiveSettings.language,
               sentenceIndex: segment.original.segmentIndex,
             });
             stageTimings.selfHealAlignMs = Date.now() - alignStartedAt;
@@ -637,6 +642,7 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
           format: 'mp3',
           model: effectiveSettings.ttsModel,
           instructions: effectiveSettings.ttsInstructions,
+          language: effectiveSettings.language,
           provider: requestCreds.provider,
           apiKey: requestCreds.apiKey || 'none',
           baseUrl: requestCreds.baseUrl,
@@ -674,6 +680,7 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
             alignment = await userWhisperAlignJob({
               audioObjectKey: audioKey,
               text: segment.text,
+              lang: effectiveSettings.language,
               sentenceIndex: segment.original.segmentIndex,
             });
             stageTimings.whisperAlignMs = Date.now() - alignStartedAt;

src/app/api/tts/segments/manifest/route.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import type {
   TTSSegmentsManifestResponse,
 } from '@/types/client';
 import { isTtsProviderType } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
+import { normalizeLanguageTag } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import { resolveEffectiveProviderType } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
 import { resolveSegmentAudioUrls } from '@/lib/server/tts/segment-audio-urls';
 import { createRequestLogger } from '@/lib/server/logger';
@@ -71,9 +72,10 @@ function parseSettingsValue(value: unknown): TTSSegmentSettings | null {
   const nativeSpeed = Number.isFinite(Number(speedSource)) ? Number(speedSource) : 1;
   const instructionsSource = rec.ttsInstructions ?? rec.instructions;
   const ttsInstructions = typeof instructionsSource === 'string' ? instructionsSource : '';
+  const language = typeof rec.language === 'string' ? normalizeLanguageTag(rec.language, 'en') : 'en';
 
   if (!providerRef || !providerType || !ttsModel || !voice) return null;
-  return { providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, voice, nativeSpeed, ttsInstructions };
+  return { providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, voice, nativeSpeed, ttsInstructions, language };
 }
 
 function locatorFromProjection(row: ManifestGroupRow): TTSSegmentLocator | null {

src/components/AudiobookExportModal.tsx

@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Fragment, useState, useRef, useCallback, useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
+import { useState, useRef, useCallback, useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
-import { Transition, Listbox, Menu, MenuButton } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { useTimeEstimation } from '@/hooks/useTimeEstimation';
 import { ProgressPopup } from '@/components/ProgressPopup';
 import { ProgressCard } from '@/components/ProgressCard';
-import { DownloadIcon, CheckCircleIcon, XCircleIcon, ClockIcon, ChevronUpDownIcon, RefreshIcon, DotsVerticalIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
+import { DownloadIcon, CheckCircleIcon, XCircleIcon, ClockIcon, RefreshIcon, DotsVerticalIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { ConfirmDialog } from '@/components/ConfirmDialog';
 import { useConfig } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
 import { useTTS } from '@/contexts/TTSContext';
 import { VoicesControlBase } from '@/components/player/VoicesControlBase';
 import { ReaderSidebarShell } from '@/components/reader/ReaderSidebarShell';
 import { resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
+import { getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings, resolveTtsLanguage } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import type { TTSAudiobookChapter, TTSAudiobookFormat } from '@/types/tts';
-import { Button, Card, IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, RangeInput, SharedListboxButton, SharedListboxOption, SharedListboxOptions } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, Card, IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, MenuRoot, MenuTransition, MenuTrigger, RangeInput, Select } from '@/components/ui';
 import { 
   getAudiobookStatus, 
   deleteAudiobookChapter, 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export function AudiobookExportModal({
   onRegenerateChapter
 }: AudiobookExportModalProps) {
   const { isLoading, isDBReady, providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, ttsInstructions, voice: configVoice, voiceSpeed, audioPlayerSpeed } = useConfig();
-  const { availableVoices } = useTTS();
+  const { availableVoices, documentLanguage } = useTTS();
   const { progress, setProgress, estimatedTimeRemaining } = useTimeEstimation();
   const [isGenerating, setIsGenerating] = useState(false);
   const [chapters, setChapters] = useState<TTSAudiobookChapter[]>([]);
@@ -125,8 +125,17 @@ export function AudiobookExportModal({
       postSpeed,
       format,
       ttsInstructions: providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : undefined,
+      language: resolveTtsLanguage({
+        configuredLanguage: documentLanguage,
+        voice: nextVoice,
+      }),
     };
-  }, [savedSettings, audiobookVoice, configVoice, availableVoices, providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, ttsInstructions, effectiveNativeSpeed, postSpeed, format, providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions]);
+  }, [savedSettings, audiobookVoice, configVoice, availableVoices, providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, ttsInstructions, effectiveNativeSpeed, postSpeed, format, providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions, documentLanguage]);
+  const languageWarnings = useMemo(() => getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+    model: effectiveSettings?.ttsModel,
+    voice: effectiveSettings?.voice,
+    documentLanguage: effectiveSettings?.language,
+  }), [effectiveSettings]);
 
   const fetchExistingChapters = useCallback(async (soft: boolean = false) => {
     if (soft) {
@@ -555,56 +564,35 @@ export function AudiobookExportModal({
 			                                    <div className="space-y-1.5">
 			                                      <label className="text-[11px] uppercase tracking-wider font-medium text-soft">Format</label>
 			                                      {chapters.length === 0 ? (
-			                                        <Listbox
+			                                        <Select
 			                                          value={format}
 			                                          onChange={(newFormat) => setFormat(newFormat)}
+			                                          options={['m4b', 'mp3'] as const}
 			                                          disabled={chapters.length > 0 || settingsLocked}
-			                                        >
+			                                          renderValue={(option) => (
-			                                          <div className="relative">
+			                                            <span className="text-sm font-medium">{option.toUpperCase()}</span>
-			                                            <SharedListboxButton className="bg-surface">
+			                                          )}
-			                                              <span className="block truncate text-sm font-medium">{format.toUpperCase()}</span>
+			                                          renderOption={(option, { selected }) => (
-			                                              <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
+			                                            <span className={`block truncate text-sm ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-			                                                <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-4 w-4 text-soft" />
+			                                              {option.toUpperCase()}
-			                                              </span>
+			                                            </span>
-			                                            </SharedListboxButton>
+			                                          )}
-			                                            <Transition
+			                                          buttonClassName="bg-surface"
-			                                              as={Fragment}
+			                                          chevronClassName="h-4 w-4 text-soft"
-			                                              leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
+			                                          optionInset="none"
-			                                              leaveFrom="opacity-100"
+			                                          optionItemClassName="py-2"
-			                                              leaveTo="opacity-0"
+			                                          showCheckmark={false}
-			                                            >
+			                                        />
-			                                              <SharedListboxOptions className="absolute left-0 mt-1 w-full">
-			                                                <SharedListboxOption
-			                                                  value="m4b"
-			                                                  inset="none"
-			                                                  itemClassName="py-2"
-			                                                >
-			                                                  {({ selected }) => (
-			                                                    <span className={`block truncate text-sm ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-			                                                      M4B
-			                                                    </span>
-			                                                  )}
-			                                                </SharedListboxOption>
-			                                                <SharedListboxOption
-			                                                  value="mp3"
-			                                                  inset="none"
-			                                                  itemClassName="py-2"
-			                                                >
-			                                                  {({ selected }) => (
-			                                                    <span className={`block truncate text-sm ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-			                                                      MP3
-			                                                    </span>
-			                                                  )}
-			                                                </SharedListboxOption>
-			                                              </SharedListboxOptions>
-			                                            </Transition>
-			                                          </div>
-			                                        </Listbox>
 			                                      ) : (
 			                                        <div className="text-sm font-medium text-foreground py-1.5 pl-3">{format.toUpperCase()}</div>
 			                                      )}
 			                                    </div>
 			                                  </div>
+                                  {languageWarnings.map((warning) => (
+                                    <p key={warning} className="text-xs text-warning">
+                                      {warning}
+                                    </p>
+                                  ))}
 
                                   {/* Speed controls */}
                                   <Card className="p-3 space-y-3">
@@ -773,23 +761,15 @@ export function AudiobookExportModal({
                                   </div>
                                   <div className="flex items-center">
                                     {((onRegenerateChapter && !isGenerating) || chapter.status === 'completed') && (
-                                      <Menu as="div" className="relative inline-block text-left">
+                                      <MenuRoot as="div" className="relative inline-block text-left">
-                                        <MenuButton
+                                        <MenuTrigger
                                           as={IconButton}
                                           size="sm"
                                           title="Chapter actions"
                                         >
                                           <DotsVerticalIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                                        </MenuButton>
+                                        </MenuTrigger>
-                                        <Transition
+                                        <MenuTransition>
-                                          as={Fragment}
-                                          enter="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                                          enterFrom="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                                          enterTo="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                                          leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                                          leaveFrom="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                                          leaveTo="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                                        >
                                           <MenuItemsSurface
                                             anchor={{ to: 'bottom end', gap: '8px', padding: '12px' }}
                                             portal
@@ -833,8 +813,8 @@ export function AudiobookExportModal({
                                             )}
                                           </MenuItemsSurface>
                                           {/* end of menu items */}
-                                        </Transition>
+                                        </MenuTransition>
-                                      </Menu>
+                                      </MenuRoot>
                                     )}
                                   </div>
                                 </div>

src/components/ColorPicker.tsx

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 'use client';
 
 import { useRef, useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';
-import { Popover, PopoverButton } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { isLightColor, type CustomThemeColors } from '@/contexts/ThemeContext';
 import { PaletteIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
-import { IconButton, Input, PopoverSurface } from '@/components/ui';
+import { IconButton, Input, PopoverIconTrigger, PopoverRoot, PopoverSurface } from '@/components/ui';
 
 /**
  * Curated swatch palettes per color role, sourced from existing themes
@@ -78,8 +77,8 @@ export function ColorPicker({ value, field, label, onChange }: ColorPickerProps)
   const swatches = ROLE_SWATCHES[field];
 
   return (
-    <Popover className="relative flex items-center">
+    <PopoverRoot className="relative flex items-center">
-      <PopoverButton as={IconButton} size="sm" className="group rounded-full p-0" aria-label={`Pick ${label} color`}>
+      <PopoverIconTrigger size="sm" className="group rounded-full p-0" aria-label={`Pick ${label} color`}>
         <div
           className="w-6 h-6 rounded-full border-2 transition duration-fast group-focus-visible:ring-2 group-focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
           style={{
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ export function ColorPicker({ value, field, label, onChange }: ColorPickerProps)
             borderColor: isLightColor(value) ? '#00000022' : '#ffffff22',
           }}
         />
-      </PopoverButton>
+      </PopoverIconTrigger>
 
       <PopoverSurface
         anchor="bottom start"
@@ -171,6 +170,6 @@ export function ColorPicker({ value, field, label, onChange }: ColorPickerProps)
           />
         </div>
       </PopoverSurface>
-    </Popover>
+    </PopoverRoot>
   );
 }

src/components/PrivacyModal.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { updateAppConfig } from '@/lib/client/dexie';
-import { Button, ModalFrame, ModalTitle } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, Checkbox, ModalFrame, ModalTitle } from '@/components/ui';
 
 interface PrivacyModalProps {
   isOpen: boolean;
@@ -78,13 +78,11 @@ export function PrivacyModal({ isOpen, onAccept, onDismiss }: PrivacyModalProps)
       <div className="mt-6 space-y-4">
         <div className="flex items-start gap-3 rounded-lg border border-line p-3 bg-surface-sunken">
           <div className="flex h-6 items-center">
-            <input
+            <Checkbox
               data-testid="privacy-agree-checkbox"
               id="privacy-agree"
-              type="checkbox"
               checked={agreed}
               onChange={(e) => setAgreed(e.target.checked)}
-              className="h-4 w-4 rounded border-line text-accent focus:ring-accent-line bg-surface"
             />
           </div>
           <div className="text-sm leading-6">

src/components/SettingsModal.tsx

@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 'use client';
 
 import { Fragment, useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo } from 'react';
-import {
-  Transition,
-  Listbox,
-} from '@headlessui/react';
 import Link from 'next/link';
 import { useTheme } from '@/contexts/ThemeContext';
 import { useConfig } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
-import { ChevronUpDownIcon, CheckIcon, SettingsIcon, KeyIcon, PaletteIcon, DocumentIcon, UserIcon, DownloadIcon, ChevronRightIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
+import { CheckIcon, SettingsIcon, KeyIcon, PaletteIcon, DocumentIcon, UserIcon, DownloadIcon, ChevronRightIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { useDocuments } from '@/contexts/DocumentContext';
 import { ConfirmDialog } from '@/components/ConfirmDialog';
 import { ProgressPopup } from '@/components/ProgressPopup';
@@ -50,12 +46,10 @@ import {
   ChoiceTile,
   IconButton,
   Input,
+  Textarea,
   ModalFrame,
   ModalTitle,
-  inputClass,
+  Select,
-  SharedListboxButton,
-  SharedListboxOption,
-  SharedListboxOptions,
 } from '@/components/ui';
 import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
 import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm';
@@ -654,8 +648,16 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                 User API keys are restricted and no shared provider is configured. Ask an admin to add one.
                               </p>
                             ) : (
-                              <Listbox
+                              <Select
                                 value={selectedProviderOption!}
+                                options={ttsProviders}
+                                getOptionKey={(provider) => provider.id}
+                                renderValue={(provider) => provider.name}
+                                renderOption={(provider, { selected }) => (
+                                  <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
+                                    {provider.name}
+                                  </span>
+                                )}
                                 onChange={(provider) => {
                                   const defaults = resolveProviderDefaults({
                                     providerRef: provider.id,
@@ -675,46 +677,7 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                   }
                                   setCustomModelInput('');
                                 }}
-                              >
+                              />
-                                <SharedListboxButton>
-                                  <span className="block truncate">
-                                    {selectedProviderOption?.name || 'Select Provider'}
-                                  </span>
-                                  <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
-                                    <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-5 w-5 text-soft" />
-                                  </span>
-                                </SharedListboxButton>
-                                <Transition
-                                  as={Fragment}
-                                  leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                                  leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-                                  leaveTo="opacity-0"
-                                >
-                                  <SharedListboxOptions
-                                    anchor="bottom start"
-                                  >
-                                    {ttsProviders.map((provider) => (
-                                      <SharedListboxOption
-                                        key={provider.id}
-                                        value={provider}
-                                      >
-                                        {({ selected }) => (
-                                          <>
-                                            <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-                                              {provider.name}
-                                            </span>
-                                            {selected && (
-                                              <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
-                                                <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                                              </span>
-                                            )}
-                                          </>
-                                        )}
-                                      </SharedListboxOption>
-                                    ))}
-                                  </SharedListboxOptions>
-                                </Transition>
-                              </Listbox>
                             )}
                           </div>
                           {restrictUserApiKeys && (
@@ -734,7 +697,6 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                 value={localBaseUrl}
                                 onChange={(e) => handleInputChange('baseUrl', e.target.value)}
                                 placeholder="Using environment variable"
-                                className={inputClass}
                               />
                             </div>
                           )}
@@ -750,7 +712,6 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                 value={localApiKey}
                                 onChange={(e) => handleInputChange('apiKey', e.target.value)}
                                 placeholder="Using environment variable"
-                                className={inputClass}
                               />
                             </div>
                           )}
@@ -768,8 +729,30 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                               </p>
                             )}
                             <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
-                              <Listbox
+                              <Select
-                                value={ttsModels.find(m => m.id === selectedModelId) || ttsModels[0]}
+                                value={selectedModel}
+                                options={ttsModels}
+                                getOptionKey={(model) => model.id}
+                                renderValue={(model) => (
+                                  <span className="block">
+                                    <span className="block truncate">{model.name}</span>
+                                    {selectedModelVersion ? (
+                                      <span className="block truncate text-xs text-soft">
+                                        {selectedModelVersion}
+                                      </span>
+                                    ) : null}
+                                  </span>
+                                )}
+                                renderOption={(model, { selected }) => (
+                                  <span className={`block ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
+                                    <span className="block truncate">{model.name}</span>
+                                    {model.id.includes(':') ? (
+                                      <span className="block truncate text-xs text-soft">
+                                        {model.id.slice(model.id.indexOf(':'))}
+                                      </span>
+                                    ) : null}
+                                  </span>
+                                )}
                                 onChange={(model) => {
                                   if (model.id === 'custom') {
                                     setModelValue(customModelInput);
@@ -778,62 +761,7 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                     setCustomModelInput('');
                                   }
                                 }}
-                              >
+                              />
-                                <SharedListboxButton>
-                                  {selectedModel ? (
-                                    <span className="block">
-                                      <span className="block truncate">
-                                        {selectedModel.name}
-                                      </span>
-                                      {selectedModelVersion && (
-                                        <span className="block truncate text-xs text-soft">
-                                          {selectedModelVersion}
-                                        </span>
-                                      )}
-                                    </span>
-                                  ) : (
-                                    <span className="block truncate">Select Model</span>
-                                  )}
-                                  <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
-                                    <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-5 w-5 text-soft" />
-                                  </span>
-                                </SharedListboxButton>
-                                <Transition
-                                  as={Fragment}
-                                  leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                                  leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-                                  leaveTo="opacity-0"
-                                >
-                                  <SharedListboxOptions
-                                    anchor="bottom start"
-                                  >
-                                    {ttsModels.map((model) => (
-                                      <SharedListboxOption
-                                        key={model.id}
-                                        value={model}
-                                    >
-                                      {({ selected }) => (
-                                        <>
-                                          <span className={`block ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-                                            <span className="block truncate">{model.name}</span>
-                                            {model.id.includes(':') && (
-                                              <span className="block truncate text-xs text-soft">
-                                                {model.id.slice(model.id.indexOf(':'))}
-                                              </span>
-                                            )}
-                                          </span>
-                                          {selected && (
-                                            <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
-                                                <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                                              </span>
-                                            )}
-                                          </>
-                                        )}
-                                      </SharedListboxOption>
-                                    ))}
-                                  </SharedListboxOptions>
-                                </Transition>
-                              </Listbox>
 
                               {supportsCustom && selectedModelId === 'custom' && (
                                 <Input
@@ -844,7 +772,6 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                                     setModelValue(e.target.value);
                                   }}
                                   placeholder="Enter custom model name"
-                                  className={inputClass}
                                 />
                               )}
                             </div>
@@ -853,11 +780,11 @@ export function SettingsModal({
                           {providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions && (
                             <div className="space-y-1.5">
                               <label className={fieldLabelClass}>TTS Instructions</label>
-                              <textarea
+                              <Textarea
                                 value={localTTSInstructions}
                                 onChange={(e) => setLocalTTSInstructions(e.target.value)}
                                 placeholder="Enter instructions for the TTS model"
-                                className={`${inputClass} h-24 resize-none`}
+                                className="h-24 resize-none"
                               />
                             </div>
                           )}

src/components/admin/AdminFeaturesPanel.tsx

@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Fragment, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
-import { Listbox, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { useMutation, useQuery, useQueryClient } from '@tanstack/react-query';
 import toast from 'react-hot-toast';
-import { ChevronUpDownIcon, CheckIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import {
   Badge,
   Section,
   ToggleRow,
-  inputClass,
+  Select,
-  SharedListboxButton,
-  SharedListboxOption,
-  SharedListboxOptions,
   Button,
+  Input,
 } from '@/components/ui';
 import { type TtsProviderId } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
 import { useSharedProviders, type SharedProviderEntry } from '@/hooks/useSharedProviders';
@@ -204,42 +200,19 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
             <div className="shrink-0">{renderSource('defaultTtsProvider')}</div>
           </div>
           {providerOptions.length > 0 ? (
-            <Listbox value={selectedProviderOption} onChange={handleProviderChange}>
+            <Select
-              <SharedListboxButton>
+              value={selectedProviderOption}
-                <span className="block truncate">{selectedProviderOption?.name ?? 'Select provider'}</span>
+              onChange={handleProviderChange}
-                <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
+              options={providerOptions}
-                  <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-4 w-4 text-muted" />
+              getOptionKey={(option) => option.id}
+              renderValue={(option) => option.name}
+              renderOption={(option, { selected }) => (
+                <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
+                  {option.name}
                 </span>
-              </SharedListboxButton>
+              )}
-              <Transition
+              chevronClassName="h-4 w-4 text-muted"
-                as={Fragment}
+            />
-                leave="transition ease-in duration-100"
-                leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-                leaveTo="opacity-0"
-              >
-                <SharedListboxOptions anchor="bottom start">
-                  {providerOptions.map((opt) => (
-                    <SharedListboxOption
-                      key={opt.id}
-                      value={opt}
-                    >
-                      {({ selected }) => (
-                        <>
-                          <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-                            {opt.name}
-                          </span>
-                          {selected && (
-                            <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
-                              <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                            </span>
-                          )}
-                        </>
-                      )}
-                    </SharedListboxOption>
-                  ))}
-                </SharedListboxOptions>
-              </Transition>
-            </Listbox>
           ) : (
             <div className="px-0.5 py-2 text-sm text-muted">
               No shared providers yet. Add one first.
@@ -301,11 +274,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Anonymous per-user daily limit</label>
                 {renderSource('ttsDailyLimitAnonymous')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.ttsDailyLimitAnonymous ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsDailyLimitAnonymous', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -315,11 +287,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Authenticated per-user daily limit</label>
                 {renderSource('ttsDailyLimitAuthenticated')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.ttsDailyLimitAuthenticated ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsDailyLimitAuthenticated', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -329,11 +300,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Anonymous IP daily backstop</label>
                 {renderSource('ttsIpDailyLimitAnonymous')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.ttsIpDailyLimitAnonymous ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsIpDailyLimitAnonymous', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -343,11 +313,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Authenticated IP daily backstop</label>
                 {renderSource('ttsIpDailyLimitAuthenticated')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.ttsIpDailyLimitAuthenticated ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsIpDailyLimitAuthenticated', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -370,11 +339,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Burst limit (parses)</label>
                 {renderSource('computeParseBurstMax')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.computeParseBurstMax ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('computeParseBurstMax', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -384,11 +352,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Burst window (seconds)</label>
                 {renderSource('computeParseBurstWindowSec')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.computeParseBurstWindowSec ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('computeParseBurstWindowSec', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -398,11 +365,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Sustained limit (parses)</label>
                 {renderSource('computeParseSustainedMax')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.computeParseSustainedMax ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('computeParseSustainedMax', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -412,11 +378,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
                 <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Sustained window (seconds)</label>
                 {renderSource('computeParseSustainedWindowSec')}
               </div>
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
-                className={inputClass}
                 value={String(draft.computeParseSustainedWindowSec ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('computeParseSustainedWindowSec', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -432,13 +397,13 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
             </div>
             <div className="shrink-0 self-start pl-1.5">{renderSource('maxUploadMb')}</div>
             <div className="shrink-0 flex items-center gap-1.5">
-              <input
+              <Input
                 type="number"
                 min={1}
                 step={1}
                 inputMode="numeric"
                 aria-label="Max upload size in megabytes"
-                className="w-20 rounded-md bg-background border border-offbase px-2.5 py-1.5 text-sm text-foreground text-right focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-accent"
+                className="w-20 text-right"
                 value={String(draft.maxUploadMb ?? '')}
                 onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('maxUploadMb', event.target.value)}
               />
@@ -463,9 +428,8 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
             </div>
             <div className="shrink-0">{renderSource('changelogFeedUrl')}</div>
           </div>
-          <input
+          <Input
             type="text"
-            className={inputClass}
             value={String(draft.changelogFeedUrl ?? '')}
             onChange={(event) => updateDraft('changelogFeedUrl', event.target.value)}
             placeholder="https://docs.openreader.richardr.dev/changelog/manifest.json"
@@ -508,11 +472,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
               <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Retry attempts</label>
               {renderSource('ttsUpstreamMaxRetries')}
             </div>
-            <input
+            <Input
               type="number"
               min={1}
               step={1}
-              className={inputClass}
               value={String(draft.ttsUpstreamMaxRetries ?? '')}
               onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsUpstreamMaxRetries', event.target.value)}
             />
@@ -522,11 +485,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
               <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Upstream timeout (ms)</label>
               {renderSource('ttsUpstreamTimeoutMs')}
             </div>
-            <input
+            <Input
               type="number"
               min={1}
               step={1}
-              className={inputClass}
               value={String(draft.ttsUpstreamTimeoutMs ?? '')}
               onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsUpstreamTimeoutMs', event.target.value)}
             />
@@ -536,11 +498,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
               <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Audio cache size (bytes)</label>
               {renderSource('ttsCacheMaxSizeBytes')}
             </div>
-            <input
+            <Input
               type="number"
               min={1}
               step={1}
-              className={inputClass}
               value={String(draft.ttsCacheMaxSizeBytes ?? '')}
               onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsCacheMaxSizeBytes', event.target.value)}
             />
@@ -550,11 +511,10 @@ export function AdminFeaturesPanel() {
               <label className="text-xs font-medium text-foreground">Audio cache TTL (ms)</label>
               {renderSource('ttsCacheTtlMs')}
             </div>
-            <input
+            <Input
               type="number"
               min={1}
               step={1}
-              className={inputClass}
               value={String(draft.ttsCacheTtlMs ?? '')}
               onChange={(event) => updatePositiveIntDraft('ttsCacheTtlMs', event.target.value)}
             />

src/components/admin/AdminProvidersPanel.tsx

@@ -1,27 +1,26 @@
 'use client';
 
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
-import { Listbox, Menu, MenuButton, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
-import { Fragment } from 'react';
 import { useMutation, useQuery, useQueryClient } from '@tanstack/react-query';
 import toast from 'react-hot-toast';
-import { ChevronUpDownIcon, CheckIcon, DotsHorizontalIcon, PlusIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
+import { DotsHorizontalIcon, PlusIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
-import { providerSupportsCustomModel, resolveProviderModels, type TtsModelDefinition, type TtsProviderId } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
+import { providerSupportsCustomModel, resolveProviderModels, type TtsModelDefinition, type TtsProviderId, type TtsProviderType } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
 import { defaultBaseUrlForProviderType, defaultModelForProviderType, resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
 import {
   Badge,
   Field,
   Section,
   ToggleRow,
-  inputClass,
+  Select,
-  SharedListboxButton,
-  SharedListboxOption,
-  SharedListboxOptions,
   Button,
   IconButton,
   Input,
+  Textarea,
   MenuItemsSurface,
   MenuActionItem,
+  MenuRoot,
+  MenuTrigger,
+  MenuTransition,
 } from '@/components/ui';
 
 type ProviderType = TtsProviderId;
@@ -328,9 +327,9 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
       ? 'custom'
       : modelDefinitions[0]?.id ?? '';
   const selectedModelDefinition = modelDefinitions.find((model) => model.id === selectedModelId);
-  const modelSupportsInstructions = useCallback((model: string) => resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy({
+  const modelSupportsInstructions = useCallback((model: string, providerType: TtsProviderType = form.providerType) => resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy({
     providerRef: form.slug,
-    providerType: form.providerType,
+    providerType,
     model,
   }).supportsInstructions, [form.slug, form.providerType]);
   const baseUrlPlaceholder = form.providerType === 'custom-openai'
@@ -396,7 +395,6 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                 value={form.slug}
                 onChange={(e) => setForm({ ...form, slug: e.target.value })}
                 placeholder="kokoro-prod"
-                className={inputClass}
                 disabled={isEditingExisting}
               />
             </Field>
@@ -406,12 +404,20 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                 value={form.displayName}
                 onChange={(e) => setForm({ ...form, displayName: e.target.value })}
                 placeholder="Kokoro (production)"
-                className={inputClass}
               />
             </Field>
             <Field label="Provider type">
-              <Listbox
+              <Select
                 value={selectedProviderType}
+                options={PROVIDER_TYPE_OPTIONS}
+                getOptionKey={(option) => option.value}
+                renderValue={(option) => option.label}
+                renderOption={(option, { selected }) => (
+                  <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
+                    {option.label}
+                  </span>
+                )}
+                chevronClassName="h-4 w-4 text-muted"
                 onChange={(opt) => {
                   const nextModel = providerDefaultModel(opt.value);
                   setForm({
@@ -419,53 +425,33 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                     providerType: opt.value,
                     baseUrl: opt.value === 'custom-openai' ? form.baseUrl : '',
                     defaultModel: nextModel,
-                    defaultInstructions: modelSupportsInstructions(nextModel) ? form.defaultInstructions : '',
+                    defaultInstructions: modelSupportsInstructions(nextModel, opt.value) ? form.defaultInstructions : '',
                   });
                   setCustomModelInput('');
                 }}
-              >
+              />
-                <SharedListboxButton>
-                  <span className="block truncate">{selectedProviderType.label}</span>
-                  <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
-                    <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-4 w-4 text-muted" />
-                  </span>
-                </SharedListboxButton>
-                <Transition
-                  as={Fragment}
-                  leave="transition ease-in duration-100"
-                  leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-                  leaveTo="opacity-0"
-                >
-                  <SharedListboxOptions anchor="bottom start">
-                    {PROVIDER_TYPE_OPTIONS.map((opt) => (
-                      <SharedListboxOption
-                        key={opt.value}
-                        value={opt}
-                      >
-                        {({ selected }) => (
-                          <>
-                            <span className={`block truncate ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-                              {opt.label}
-                            </span>
-                            {selected && (
-                              <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
-                                <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                              </span>
-                            )}
-                          </>
-                        )}
-                      </SharedListboxOption>
-                    ))}
-                  </SharedListboxOptions>
-                </Transition>
-              </Listbox>
             </Field>
             <Field label="Default model" hint="Pre-selected for users picking this provider.">
               <div className="space-y-2">
-                <Listbox
+                <Select
-                  value={selectedModelId}
+                  value={selectedModelDefinition}
-                  onChange={(modelId: string) => {
+                  options={modelDefinitions}
-                    if (modelId === 'custom') {
+                  getOptionKey={(model) => model.id}
+                  renderValue={(model) => model.name}
+                  renderOption={(model, { selected }) => (
+                    <span className={`block ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
+                      <span className="block truncate">{model.name}</span>
+                      {model.id.includes(':') ? (
+                        <span className="block truncate text-xs text-muted">
+                          {model.id.slice(model.id.indexOf(':'))}
+                        </span>
+                      ) : null}
+                    </span>
+                  )}
+                  placeholder="Select model"
+                  chevronClassName="h-4 w-4 text-muted"
+                  onChange={(model) => {
+                    if (model.id === 'custom') {
                       const nextModel = customModelInput.trim();
                       setForm({
                         ...form,
@@ -476,54 +462,12 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                     }
                     setForm({
                       ...form,
-                      defaultModel: modelId,
+                      defaultModel: model.id,
-                      defaultInstructions: modelSupportsInstructions(modelId) ? form.defaultInstructions : '',
+                      defaultInstructions: modelSupportsInstructions(model.id) ? form.defaultInstructions : '',
                     });
                     setCustomModelInput('');
                   }}
-                >
+                />
-                <SharedListboxButton>
-                  <span className="block truncate">
-                    {selectedModelDefinition?.name ?? 'Select model'}
-                  </span>
-                    <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
-                      <ChevronUpDownIcon className="h-4 w-4 text-muted" />
-                    </span>
-                  </SharedListboxButton>
-                  <Transition
-                    as={Fragment}
-                    leave="transition ease-in duration-100"
-                    leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-                    leaveTo="opacity-0"
-                  >
-                    <SharedListboxOptions anchor="bottom start">
-                      {modelDefinitions.map((model) => (
-                        <SharedListboxOption
-                          key={model.id}
-                          value={model.id}
-                        >
-                          {({ selected }) => (
-                            <>
-                              <span className={`block ${selected ? 'font-medium' : 'font-normal'}`}>
-                                <span className="block truncate">{model.name}</span>
-                                {model.id.includes(':') && (
-                                  <span className="block truncate text-xs text-muted">
-                                    {model.id.slice(model.id.indexOf(':'))}
-                                  </span>
-                                )}
-                              </span>
-                              {selected && (
-                                <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
-                                  <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" />
-                                </span>
-                              )}
-                            </>
-                          )}
-                        </SharedListboxOption>
-                      ))}
-                    </SharedListboxOptions>
-                  </Transition>
-                </Listbox>
                 {supportsCustomModel && selectedModelId === 'custom' && (
                   <Input
                     type="text"
@@ -538,7 +482,6 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                       });
                     }}
                     placeholder="Enter custom model id"
-                    className={inputClass}
                   />
                 )}
               </div>
@@ -549,11 +492,11 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                 className="sm:col-span-2"
                 hint="Optional. Applied by default when this shared provider is selected."
               >
-                <textarea
+                <Textarea
                   value={form.defaultInstructions}
                   onChange={(e) => setForm({ ...form, defaultInstructions: e.target.value })}
                   placeholder="Enter instructions for this model"
-                  className={`${inputClass} min-h-24 resize-y`}
+                  className="min-h-24 resize-y"
                 />
               </Field>
             )}
@@ -564,7 +507,6 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                   value={form.baseUrl}
                   onChange={(e) => setForm({ ...form, baseUrl: e.target.value })}
                   placeholder={baseUrlPlaceholder}
-                  className={inputClass}
                 />
               </Field>
             )}
@@ -578,7 +520,6 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                 value={form.apiKey}
                 onChange={(e) => setForm({ ...form, apiKey: e.target.value })}
                 placeholder={isEditingExisting ? `keep existing (${editingProvider?.apiKeyMask ?? ''})` : 'Optional'}
-                className={inputClass}
               />
             </Field>
           </div>
@@ -639,8 +580,8 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                     {p.baseUrl ? p.baseUrl : 'provider base URL default'} · key {p.apiKeyMask}
                   </div>
                 </div>
-                <Menu as="div" className="relative shrink-0">
+                <MenuRoot as="div" className="relative shrink-0">
-                  <MenuButton
+                  <MenuTrigger
                     as={IconButton}
                     tone="surface"
                     size="sm"
@@ -649,16 +590,8 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                     disabled={!!editingId || deleteMutation.isPending || toggleEnabledMutation.isPending || setDefaultMutation.isPending}
                   >
                     <DotsHorizontalIcon className="h-3 w-4" />
-                  </MenuButton>
+                  </MenuTrigger>
-                  <Transition
+                  <MenuTransition>
-                    as={Fragment}
-                    enter="transition ease-out duration-100"
-                    enterFrom="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                    enterTo="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                    leave="transition ease-in duration-75"
-                    leaveFrom="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                    leaveTo="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                  >
                     <MenuItemsSurface
                       anchor="bottom end"
                       className="z-50 mt-2 min-w-[170px] bg-base focus:outline-none"
@@ -679,8 +612,8 @@ export function AdminProvidersPanel() {
                         Delete
                       </MenuActionItem>
                     </MenuItemsSurface>
-                  </Transition>
+                  </MenuTransition>
-                </Menu>
+                </MenuRoot>
               </div>
             </div>
           ))

src/components/doclist/window/FinderSidebar.tsx

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Menu, MenuButton, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
+import { useRef, type CSSProperties, type ReactNode } from 'react';
-import { Fragment, useRef, type CSSProperties, type ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { useDrop } from 'react-dnd';
 import type { Folder, SidebarFilter } from '@/types/documents';
 import { PDFIcon, EPUBIcon, FileIcon, DotsHorizontalIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { FolderIcon, HomeIcon, ClockIcon, FolderPlusIcon } from './finderIcons';
 import { DND_DOCUMENT, type DocumentDragItem } from '../dnd/dndTypes';
-import { IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, Sidebar as SidebarShell, SidebarNav, SidebarNavGroup, SidebarNavItem } from '@/components/ui';
+import { IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, MenuRoot, MenuTransition, MenuTrigger, Sidebar as SidebarShell, SidebarNav, SidebarNavGroup, SidebarNavItem } from '@/components/ui';
 
 interface FinderSidebarProps {
   filter: SidebarFilter;
@@ -201,8 +200,8 @@ export function FinderSidebar({
 
           <SidebarNavGroup
             action={(
-              <Menu as="div" className="relative inline-flex items-center leading-none text-left shrink-0 normal-case tracking-normal font-normal">
+              <MenuRoot as="div" className="relative inline-flex items-center leading-none text-left shrink-0 normal-case tracking-normal font-normal">
-                <MenuButton
+                <MenuTrigger
                   as={IconButton}
                   size="xs"
                   className="h-3.5 w-5"
@@ -210,16 +209,8 @@ export function FinderSidebar({
                   aria-label="Folder actions"
                 >
                   <DotsHorizontalIcon className="w-4 h-2.5" />
-                </MenuButton>
+                </MenuTrigger>
-                <Transition
+                <MenuTransition>
-                  as={Fragment}
-                  enter="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                  enterFrom="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                  enterTo="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                  leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-                  leaveFrom="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-                  leaveTo="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-                >
                   <MenuItemsSurface
                     anchor="bottom start"
                     className="z-50 mt-2 min-w-[180px] focus:outline-none normal-case tracking-normal font-normal"
@@ -246,8 +237,8 @@ export function FinderSidebar({
                       Remove All Folders
                     </MenuActionItem>
                   </MenuItemsSurface>
-                </Transition>
+                </MenuTransition>
-              </Menu>
+              </MenuRoot>
             )}
           >
             Folders

src/components/documents/DocumentHeaderMenu.tsx

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Menu, MenuButton, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
-import { Fragment } from 'react';
 import { DotsVerticalIcon, FileSettingsIcon, DownloadIcon, ListIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { ZoomControl } from '@/components/documents/ZoomControl';
 import { UserMenu } from '@/components/auth/UserMenu';
-import { IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, ToolbarButton } from '@/components/ui';
+import { IconButton, MenuActionItem, MenuItemsSurface, MenuRoot, MenuTransition, MenuTrigger, ToolbarButton } from '@/components/ui';
 
 interface DocumentHeaderMenuProps {
   zoomLevel: number;
@@ -82,24 +80,16 @@ export function DocumentHeaderMenu({
   // --- Mobile View ---
   const MobileView = (
     <div className="sm:hidden flex items-center">
-      <Menu as="div" className="relative inline-block text-left">
+      <MenuRoot as="div" className="relative inline-block text-left">
-        <MenuButton
+        <MenuTrigger
           as={IconButton}
           tone="surface"
           size="sm"
           title="Menu"
         >
           <DotsVerticalIcon className="w-4 h-4 transform transition-transform duration-base ease-standard hover:text-accent" />
-        </MenuButton>
+        </MenuTrigger>
-        <Transition
+        <MenuTransition>
-          as={Fragment}
-          enter="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-          enterFrom="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-          enterTo="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-          leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-          leaveFrom="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
-          leaveTo="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
-        >
           <MenuItemsSurface className="absolute right-0 z-50 mt-2 min-w-max origin-top-right divide-y divide-line-soft focus:outline-none">
             {/* Zoom Controls Section */}
             <div className="px-4 py-3">
@@ -140,8 +130,8 @@ export function DocumentHeaderMenu({
               <UserMenu />
             </div>
           </MenuItemsSurface>
-        </Transition>
+        </MenuTransition>
-      </Menu>
+      </MenuRoot>
     </div>
   );
 

src/components/documents/DocumentSelectionModal.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { BaseDocument } from '@/types/documents';
-import { Button, ModalFrame, ModalTitle } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, Checkbox, ModalFrame, ModalTitle } from '@/components/ui';
 
 interface DocumentSelectionModalProps {
   isOpen: boolean;
@@ -119,9 +119,7 @@ export function DocumentSelectionModal({
         {files.length > 0 && (
           <div className="flex items-center text-sm font-normal">
             <label className="flex items-center gap-2 cursor-pointer select-none text-soft hover:text-foreground transition-colors">
-              <input
+              <Checkbox
-                type="checkbox"
-                className="rounded border-muted text-accent focus:ring-accent-line"
                 checked={allSelected}
                 ref={input => {
                   if (input) input.indeterminate = isIndeterminate;
@@ -154,11 +152,9 @@ export function DocumentSelectionModal({
                   }`}
                 >
                   <div className="flex-shrink-0" onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}>
-                    <input
+                    <Checkbox
-                      type="checkbox"
                       checked={isSelected}
                       onChange={(e) => handleCheckboxChange(file.id, e.target.checked)}
-                      className="rounded border-muted text-accent focus:ring-accent-line"
                     />
                   </div>
                   <div

src/components/documents/DocumentSettings.tsx

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { useConfig, ViewType } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
+import { useTTS } from '@/contexts/TTSContext';
 import { ReaderSidebarShell } from '@/components/reader/ReaderSidebarShell';
 import {
   SEGMENT_PRELOAD_DEPTH_MIN,
@@ -15,10 +16,19 @@ import {
   clampSegmentPreloadSentenceLookahead,
   clampTtsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
 } from '@/types/config';
-import { IconButton, RangeInput, Section, ToggleRow, CheckItem, SegmentedControl } from '@/components/ui';
+import {
+  IconButton,
+  RangeInput,
+  Section,
+  ToggleRow,
+  CheckItem,
+  SegmentedControl,
+  Select,
+} from '@/components/ui';
 import { RefreshIcon, SparkleIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import type { ParsedPdfBlockKind, PdfParseStatus } from '@/types/parsed-pdf';
 import { isForceReparseDisabled } from '@/lib/client/pdf/force-reparse';
+import { getLanguageDisplayName, getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 const PDF_SKIP_KIND_OPTIONS: Array<{ kind: ParsedPdfBlockKind; label: string }> = [
   { kind: 'header', label: 'Header' },
@@ -50,6 +60,20 @@ const viewTypeTextMapping = [
   { id: 'scroll', name: 'Continuous Scroll' },
 ];
 
+const DOCUMENT_LANGUAGE_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'auto', label: 'Automatic (voice or metadata)' },
+  { value: 'en', label: 'English' },
+  { value: 'es', label: 'Spanish' },
+  { value: 'fr', label: 'French' },
+  { value: 'hi', label: 'Hindi' },
+  { value: 'it', label: 'Italian' },
+  { value: 'ja', label: 'Japanese' },
+  { value: 'pt-BR', label: 'Portuguese (Brazil)' },
+  { value: 'zh-CN', label: 'Chinese (Simplified)' },
+  { value: 'ar', label: 'Arabic' },
+  { value: 'th', label: 'Thai' },
+];
+
 type RangeSettingProps = {
   label: string;
   value: number;
@@ -92,11 +116,14 @@ function RangeSetting({
   );
 }
 
-export function DocumentSettings({ isOpen, setIsOpen, epub, html, pdf }: {
+export function DocumentSettings({ isOpen, setIsOpen, epub, html, language, detectedLanguage, onLanguageChange, pdf }: {
   isOpen: boolean,
   setIsOpen: (isOpen: boolean) => void,
   epub?: boolean,
   html?: boolean,
+  language?: string,
+  detectedLanguage?: string | null,
+  onLanguageChange?: (language: string) => void,
   pdf?: {
     parseStatus: PdfParseStatus | null;
     parsedOverlayEnabled: boolean;
@@ -121,7 +148,16 @@ export function DocumentSettings({ isOpen, setIsOpen, epub, html, pdf }: {
     epubWordHighlightEnabled,
     htmlHighlightEnabled,
     htmlWordHighlightEnabled,
+    ttsModel,
   } = useConfig();
+  const { voice, resolvedLanguage } = useTTS();
+  const languageWarnings = getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+    model: ttsModel,
+    voice,
+    documentLanguage: resolvedLanguage,
+  });
+  const selectedLanguage = DOCUMENT_LANGUAGE_OPTIONS.find((option) => option.value === language)
+    ?? DOCUMENT_LANGUAGE_OPTIONS[0];
   const selectedView = viewTypeTextMapping.find(v => v.id === viewType) || viewTypeTextMapping[0];
   const isPdfMode = !epub && !html && !!pdf;
   const [localPreloadDepth, setLocalPreloadDepth] = useState(segmentPreloadDepthPages);
@@ -151,6 +187,34 @@ export function DocumentSettings({ isOpen, setIsOpen, epub, html, pdf }: {
       panelClassName="w-full sm:w-[30rem]"
     >
       <div className="space-y-4">
+        {language && onLanguageChange ? (
+          <Section
+            title="Language"
+            subtitle="Controls sentence splitting and synchronized word alignment."
+            variant="flat"
+          >
+            <div className="space-y-1.5">
+              <span className="block text-[11px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-muted">
+                Document language
+              </span>
+              <Select
+                value={selectedLanguage}
+                onChange={(option) => onLanguageChange(option.value)}
+                options={DOCUMENT_LANGUAGE_OPTIONS}
+              />
+            </div>
+            {language === 'auto' && detectedLanguage ? (
+              <p className="text-xs text-soft">
+                Detected from document metadata: {getLanguageDisplayName(detectedLanguage)}
+              </p>
+            ) : null}
+            {languageWarnings.map((warning) => (
+              <p key={warning} className="text-xs text-warning">
+                {warning}
+              </p>
+            ))}
+          </Section>
+        ) : null}
         {isPdfMode && pdf && (
           <Section
             title="PDF Essentials"

src/components/player/Navigator.tsx

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Popover } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { useState, useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
-import { IconButton, Input, PopoverSurface, PopoverTrigger } from '@/components/ui';
+import { IconButton, Input, PopoverRoot, PopoverSurface, PopoverTrigger } from '@/components/ui';
 
 export const Navigator = ({ currentPage, numPages, skipToLocation }: {
   currentPage: number;
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ export const Navigator = ({ currentPage, numPages, skipToLocation }: {
       </IconButton>
 
       {/* Page number popup */}
-      <Popover className="relative mb-1">
+      <PopoverRoot className="relative mb-1">
         <PopoverTrigger className="rounded-full bg-surface-sunken px-2 py-0.5 text-xs" onClick={handlePopoverOpen}>
           <p className="text-xs whitespace-nowrap">
             {currentPage} / {numPages || 1}
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ export const Navigator = ({ currentPage, numPages, skipToLocation }: {
             <div className="text-xs text-soft text-center">of {numPages || 1}</div>
           </div>
         </PopoverSurface>
-      </Popover>
+      </PopoverRoot>
 
       {/* Page forward */}
       <IconButton

src/components/player/SpeedControl.tsx

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Popover } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { ChevronUpDownIcon, SpeedometerIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 import { useConfig } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import { resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
-import { PopoverSurface, PopoverTrigger, RangeInput } from '@/components/ui';
+import { PopoverRoot, PopoverSurface, PopoverTrigger, RangeInput } from '@/components/ui';
 
 export const SpeedControl = ({ 
   setSpeedAndRestart, 
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ export const SpeedControl = ({
   const step = 0.1;
 
   return (
-    <Popover className="relative">
+    <PopoverRoot className="relative">
       <PopoverTrigger className="space-x-0.5 px-1.5 py-0.5 text-xs sm:space-x-1 sm:px-2 sm:py-1 sm:text-sm">
         <SpeedometerIcon className="h-3 w-3 sm:h-3.5 sm:w-3.5" />
         <span className="sm:hidden">{compactTriggerLabel}</span>
@@ -148,6 +147,6 @@ export const SpeedControl = ({
           </div>
         </div>
       </PopoverSurface>
-    </Popover>
+    </PopoverRoot>
   );
 };

src/components/player/VoicesControl.tsx

@@ -4,22 +4,40 @@ import { useConfig } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
 import { useTTS } from '@/contexts/TTSContext';
 import { useCallback } from 'react';
 import { VoicesControlBase } from '@/components/player/VoicesControlBase';
+import { InfoIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
+import { getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 export const VoicesControl = ({ availableVoices, setVoiceAndRestart }: {
   availableVoices: string[];
   setVoiceAndRestart: (voice: string) => void;
 }) => {
   const { ttsModel, providerType } = useConfig();
-  const { voice } = useTTS();
+  const { voice, resolvedLanguage } = useTTS();
   const onChangeVoice = useCallback((nextVoice: string) => setVoiceAndRestart(nextVoice), [setVoiceAndRestart]);
+  const languageWarnings = getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+    model: ttsModel,
+    voice,
+    documentLanguage: resolvedLanguage,
+  });
 
   return (
-    <VoicesControlBase
+    <div className="flex items-center gap-1">
-      availableVoices={availableVoices}
+      <VoicesControlBase
-      voice={voice || ''}
+        availableVoices={availableVoices}
-      onChangeVoice={onChangeVoice}
+        voice={voice || ''}
-      providerType={providerType}
+        onChangeVoice={onChangeVoice}
-      ttsModel={ttsModel}
+        providerType={providerType}
-    />
+        ttsModel={ttsModel}
+      />
+      {languageWarnings.length > 0 ? (
+        <span
+          aria-label="Voice language warning"
+          title={languageWarnings.join(' ')}
+          className="text-warning"
+        >
+          <InfoIcon className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+        </span>
+      ) : null}
+    </div>
   );
 }

src/components/player/VoicesControlBase.tsx

@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ import {
   Listbox,
 } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { ChevronUpDownIcon, AudioWaveIcon, CheckIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
-import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import { buildKokoroVoiceString, parseKokoroVoiceNames } from '@/lib/shared/kokoro';
+import { keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import { type TtsProviderType } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
 import { resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
 import { SharedListboxButton, SharedListboxOption, SharedListboxOptions, cn } from '@/components/ui';
@@ -55,10 +56,15 @@ export function VoicesControlBase({
   const isKokoro = providerModelPolicy.isKokoroModel;
   const maxVoices = providerModelPolicy.maxVoices;
 
-  const [selectedVoices, setSelectedVoices] = useState<string[]>([]);
+  // Selected voices are derived from the `voice` prop for display only. The
-
+  // control is fully controlled: it never writes back to config as a side
-  useEffect(() => {
+  // effect, only in direct response to a user selection (see onChange below).
-    if (!(isKokoro && maxVoices > 1)) return;
+  // A write-back effect here would re-fire during the availableVoices refetch
+  // churn that a voice change triggers and, under a slow/contended backend,
+  // push a transiently-collapsed selection back as the voice — resetting it to
+  // the first option.
+  const selectedVoices = useMemo(() => {
+    if (!(isKokoro && maxVoices > 1)) return [];
     let initial: string[] = [];
     if (voice && voice.includes('+')) {
       initial = parseKokoroVoiceNames(voice);
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ export function VoicesControlBase({
     if (initial.length > maxVoices) {
       initial = initial.slice(0, maxVoices);
     }
-    setSelectedVoices(initial);
+    return keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(initial);
   }, [isKokoro, maxVoices, voice, availableVoices]);
 
   const currentVoice = useMemo(() => {
@@ -101,19 +107,22 @@ export function VoicesControlBase({
           onChange={(vals: string[]) => {
             if (!vals || vals.length === 0) return;
 
-            let next = vals;
+            const newlyAdded = vals.find((v) => !selectedVoices.includes(v));
-            if (vals.length > maxVoices) {
+            let next = keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(vals, newlyAdded);
-              const newlyAdded = vals.find((v) => !selectedVoices.includes(v));
+            if (next.length > maxVoices) {
               if (newlyAdded) {
-                const lastPrev = selectedVoices[selectedVoices.length - 1] ?? selectedVoices[0] ?? '';
+                const compatiblePrevious = selectedVoices.filter(
-                const pair = Array.from(new Set([lastPrev, newlyAdded])).filter(Boolean);
+                  (voiceId) => voiceId !== newlyAdded && next.includes(voiceId),
-                next = pair.slice(0, maxVoices);
+                );
+                next = [
+                  ...compatiblePrevious.slice(-(maxVoices - 1)),
+                  newlyAdded,
+                ];
               } else {
-                next = vals.slice(-maxVoices);
+                next = next.slice(-maxVoices);
               }
             }
 
-            setSelectedVoices(next);
             const combined = buildKokoroVoiceString(next);
             if (combined) {
               onChangeVoice(combined);

src/components/reader/SegmentsSidebar.tsx

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 'use client';
 
 import { Fragment, type ReactNode, type RefObject, useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
-import { Popover, PopoverButton, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
+import { Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
 import { useInfiniteQuery, useMutation, useQueryClient } from '@tanstack/react-query';
 import type { Book } from 'epubjs';
 import toast from 'react-hot-toast';
 import { useTTS } from '@/contexts/TTSContext';
 import { useConfig } from '@/contexts/ConfigContext';
 import { RefreshIcon, InfoIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
-import { Button, IconButton, PopoverSurface } from '@/components/ui';
+import { Button, IconButton, PopoverIconTrigger, PopoverRoot, PopoverSurface } from '@/components/ui';
 import { ReaderSidebarShell } from '@/components/reader/ReaderSidebarShell';
 import { compareSegmentLocators, locatorGroupKey, locatorIdentityKey } from '@/lib/shared/tts-locator';
 import { buildSegmentKey, buildSegmentKeyPrefix } from '@/lib/shared/tts-segment-plan';
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ function settingsAreEqual(a: TTSSegmentSettings | null, b: TTSSegmentSettings |
     && a.voice === b.voice
     && Number(a.nativeSpeed) === Number(b.nativeSpeed)
     && (a.ttsInstructions || '') === (b.ttsInstructions || '')
+    && (a.language || 'en') === (b.language || 'en')
   );
 }
 
@@ -186,6 +187,8 @@ export function SegmentsSidebar({ isOpen, setIsOpen, documentId, epubBookRef }:
     playFromSegment,
     activeReaderType,
     clearSegmentCaches,
+    resolvedLanguage,
+    setDocumentLanguage,
   } = useTTS();
   const {
     providerRef,
@@ -348,7 +351,8 @@ export function SegmentsSidebar({ isOpen, setIsOpen, documentId, epubBookRef }:
     voice,
     nativeSpeed: Number.isFinite(Number(voiceSpeed)) ? Number(voiceSpeed) : 1,
     ttsInstructions: ttsInstructions || '',
-  }), [providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, voice, voiceSpeed, ttsInstructions]);
+    language: resolvedLanguage,
+  }), [providerRef, providerType, ttsModel, voice, voiceSpeed, ttsInstructions, resolvedLanguage]);
 
   const handleClearCache = useCallback(async () => {
     if (!documentId || isClearingSegments) return;
@@ -418,7 +422,8 @@ export function SegmentsSidebar({ isOpen, setIsOpen, documentId, epubBookRef }:
       updateConfigKey('voiceSpeed', Number.isFinite(Number(settings.nativeSpeed)) ? Number(settings.nativeSpeed) : 1),
       updateConfigKey('ttsInstructions', settings.ttsInstructions || ''),
     ]);
-  }, [updateConfigKey]);
+    if (settings.language) setDocumentLanguage(settings.language);
+  }, [updateConfigKey, setDocumentLanguage]);
 
   const handleRefresh = useCallback(() => {
     didAutoScrollOnOpenRef.current = false;
@@ -885,15 +890,14 @@ function SegmentsListSkeletonRows() {
 
 function SegmentMetadataPopover({ row }: { row: TTSSegmentRow }) {
   return (
-    <Popover className="relative shrink-0">
+    <PopoverRoot className="relative shrink-0">
-      <PopoverButton
+      <PopoverIconTrigger
-        as={IconButton}
         size="sm"
         aria-label="Segment metadata"
         title="Metadata"
       >
         <InfoIcon className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
-      </PopoverButton>
+      </PopoverIconTrigger>
       <Transition
         as={Fragment}
         enter="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
@@ -960,7 +964,7 @@ function SegmentMetadataPopover({ row }: { row: TTSSegmentRow }) {
           </dl>
         </PopoverSurface>
       </Transition>
-    </Popover>
+    </PopoverRoot>
   );
 }
 

src/components/ui/button.tsx

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { focusRing, motionColors } from './tokens';
 export type ButtonVariant = 'primary' | 'secondary' | 'outline' | 'danger' | 'ghost';
 export type ButtonSize = 'xs' | 'sm' | 'md' | 'lg' | 'icon';
 
-export const buttonStyles = variants({
+const buttonStyles = variants({
   base: cn(
     'inline-flex items-center justify-center font-medium disabled:cursor-not-allowed disabled:opacity-50',
     focusRing,
@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ export const buttonStyles = variants({
   },
 });
 
-export const btnBase = cn(
-  'inline-flex items-center justify-center rounded-md text-sm font-medium disabled:cursor-not-allowed disabled:opacity-50',
-  focusRing,
-  motionColors,
-);
-export const btnPrimary = buttonStyles({ variant: 'primary', size: 'md' });
-export const btnSecondary = buttonStyles({ variant: 'secondary', size: 'md' });
-export const btnOutline = buttonStyles({ variant: 'outline', size: 'md' });
-export const btnDanger = buttonStyles({ variant: 'danger', size: 'md' });
-export const btnGhost = buttonStyles({ variant: 'ghost', size: 'md' });
-
 function buttonClass({
   variant = 'secondary',
   size = 'md',
@@ -112,3 +101,22 @@ export function ButtonAnchor({
     </a>
   );
 }
+
+export function InlineButton({
+  className,
+  children,
+  type = 'button',
+  ...props
+}: ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement> & {
+  children: ReactNode;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <button
+      type={type}
+      className={cn('underline hover:text-foreground', focusRing, motionColors, className)}
+      {...props}
+    >
+      {children}
+    </button>
+  );
+}

src/components/ui/checkbox.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { forwardRef, type InputHTMLAttributes } from 'react';
+import { cn } from './cn';
+import { focusRing, motionColors } from './tokens';
+
+export const checkboxClass = cn(
+  'h-4 w-4 rounded border-line bg-surface text-accent disabled:cursor-not-allowed disabled:opacity-50',
+  focusRing,
+  motionColors,
+);
+
+export const Checkbox = forwardRef<
+  HTMLInputElement,
+  Omit<InputHTMLAttributes<HTMLInputElement>, 'type'>
+>(function Checkbox({ className, ...props }, ref) {
+  return <input ref={ref} type="checkbox" className={cn(checkboxClass, className)} {...props} />;
+});

src/components/ui/index.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 export * from './badge';
 export * from './button';
+export * from './checkbox';
 export * from './choice-tile';
 export * from './cn';
 export * from './dialog';

src/components/ui/input.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { motionColors } from './tokens';
 
 export type InputControlSize = 'sm' | 'md' | 'lg';
 
-export const inputStyles = variants({
+const inputStyles = variants({
   base: cn('w-full border border-line bg-surface-sunken text-foreground placeholder:text-soft focus:border-accent-line focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-accent-line', motionColors),
   variants: {
     size: {
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ export const inputStyles = variants({
   },
 });
 
-export const inputClass = inputStyles();
-
 export const Input = forwardRef<HTMLInputElement, InputHTMLAttributes<HTMLInputElement> & { controlSize?: InputControlSize }>(function Input({
   className,
   controlSize = 'md',

src/components/ui/menu.tsx

@@ -1,19 +1,33 @@
-import { MenuItem, MenuItems } from '@headlessui/react';
+import {
+  Menu as HeadlessMenu,
+  MenuButton as HeadlessMenuButton,
+  MenuItem,
+  MenuItems,
+  Transition,
+} from '@headlessui/react';
+import { Fragment } from 'react';
 import type { ComponentProps } from 'react';
-import type { HTMLAttributes, ReactNode } from 'react';
+import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { cn } from './cn';
 
 const menuPanelClass = 'rounded-md border border-line bg-surface p-1 shadow-elev-2 ring-1 ring-line-soft';
 
-export function Menu({
+export const MenuRoot = HeadlessMenu;
-  children,
+export const MenuTrigger = HeadlessMenuButton;
-  className,
+
-  ...props
+export function MenuTransition({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
-}: HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> & { children: ReactNode }) {
   return (
-    <div className={cn(menuPanelClass, className)} {...props}>
+    <Transition
+      as={Fragment}
+      enter="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
+      enterFrom="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
+      enterTo="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
+      leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
+      leaveFrom="transform opacity-100 scale-100"
+      leaveTo="transform opacity-0 scale-95"
+    >
       {children}
-    </div>
+    </Transition>
   );
 }
 

src/components/ui/popover.tsx

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
-import { PopoverButton, PopoverPanel } from '@headlessui/react';
+import { Popover, PopoverButton, PopoverPanel } from '@headlessui/react';
 import type { ComponentProps } from 'react';
 import { cn } from './cn';
+import { IconButton } from './icon-button';
 
 const popoverPanelClass = cn(
   'z-50 rounded-md border border-line bg-surface p-3 shadow-elev-2 focus:outline-none',
 );
 
-export const popoverTriggerClass = cn(
+export const PopoverRoot = Popover;
+
+const popoverTriggerClass = cn(
   'inline-flex items-center rounded-md text-foreground hover:bg-accent-wash hover:text-accent focus:outline-none transition-colors duration-fast ease-standard',
 );
 
@@ -22,6 +25,17 @@ export function PopoverTrigger({
   );
 }
 
+export function PopoverIconTrigger({
+  children,
+  ...props
+}: ComponentProps<typeof IconButton>) {
+  return (
+    <PopoverButton as={IconButton} {...props}>
+      {children}
+    </PopoverButton>
+  );
+}
+
 export function PopoverSurface({
   className,
   children,

src/components/ui/select.tsx

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { Listbox, ListboxButton, ListboxOption, ListboxOptions } from '@headlessui/react';
+import { Listbox, ListboxButton, ListboxOption, ListboxOptions, Transition } from '@headlessui/react';
-import type { ComponentProps } from 'react';
+import { Fragment, type ComponentProps, type Key, type ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { cn } from './cn';
-import { CheckIcon, ChevronRightIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
+import { CheckIcon, ChevronUpDownIcon } from '@/components/icons/Icons';
 
 const listboxButtonClass =
   'relative w-full cursor-pointer rounded-md bg-surface-sunken border border-line py-1.5 pl-2.5 pr-9 text-left text-sm text-foreground focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-accent-line hover:bg-accent-wash transition-colors duration-fast ease-standard';
@@ -104,39 +104,92 @@ export function SharedListboxOption({
   );
 }
 
-export function Select({
+export type SelectOption = {
+  value: string;
+  label: string;
+};
+
+export function Select<T = SelectOption>({
   value,
   onChange,
   options,
+  getOptionKey,
+  renderValue,
+  renderOption,
+  placeholder = 'Select',
+  disabled,
+  buttonClassName,
+  optionsClassName,
+  optionInset = 'check',
+  optionItemClassName,
+  showCheckmark = true,
+  chevronClassName = 'h-5 w-5 text-soft',
 }: {
-  value: string;
+  value: T | undefined;
-  onChange: (value: string) => void;
+  onChange: (value: T) => void;
-  options: Array<{ value: string; label: string }>;
+  options: readonly T[];
+  getOptionKey?: (option: T) => Key;
+  renderValue?: (option: T) => ReactNode;
+  renderOption?: (option: T, state: { selected: boolean }) => ReactNode;
+  placeholder?: ReactNode;
+  disabled?: boolean;
+  buttonClassName?: string;
+  optionsClassName?: string;
+  optionInset?: 'check' | 'none';
+  optionItemClassName?: string;
+  showCheckmark?: boolean;
+  chevronClassName?: string;
 }) {
-  const activeOption = options.find((option) => option.value === value) ?? options[0];
+  const defaultKey = (option: T): Key => {
+    if (typeof option === 'string' || typeof option === 'number') return option;
+    const record = option as Record<string, unknown>;
+    return String(record.value ?? record.id ?? record.label);
+  };
+  const defaultRender = (option: T): ReactNode => {
+    if (typeof option === 'string' || typeof option === 'number') return String(option);
+    const record = option as Record<string, unknown>;
+    return String(record.label ?? record.name ?? record.value ?? record.id ?? '');
+  };
+  const optionKey = getOptionKey ?? defaultKey;
+  const valueRenderer = renderValue ?? defaultRender;
+  const optionRenderer = renderOption ?? ((option: T) => valueRenderer(option));
 
   return (
-    <Listbox value={value} onChange={onChange}>
+    <Listbox value={value} onChange={onChange} disabled={disabled}>
-      <SharedListboxButton>
+      <SharedListboxButton className={buttonClassName}>
-        <span>{activeOption?.label ?? 'Select'}</span>
+        <span className="block truncate">{value === undefined ? placeholder : valueRenderer(value)}</span>
-        <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-2 flex items-center text-soft">
+        <span className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 flex items-center pr-2">
-          <ChevronRightIcon className="h-4 w-4 rotate-90" aria-hidden="true" />
+          <ChevronUpDownIcon className={chevronClassName} aria-hidden="true" />
         </span>
       </SharedListboxButton>
-      <SharedListboxOptions anchor="bottom">
+      <Transition
-        {options.map((option) => (
+        as={Fragment}
-          <SharedListboxOption key={option.value} value={option.value}>
+        leave="transition ease-standard duration-fast"
-            {({ selected }) => (
+        leaveFrom="opacity-100"
-              <>
+        leaveTo="opacity-0"
-                <span className="absolute left-2 flex items-center text-accent">
+      >
-                  {selected ? <CheckIcon className="h-4 w-4" aria-hidden="true" /> : null}
+        <SharedListboxOptions anchor="bottom start" className={optionsClassName}>
-                </span>
+          {options.map((option) => (
-                <span>{option.label}</span>
+            <SharedListboxOption
-              </>
+              key={optionKey(option)}
-            )}
+              value={option}
-          </SharedListboxOption>
+              inset={optionInset}
-        ))}
+              itemClassName={optionItemClassName}
-      </SharedListboxOptions>
+            >
+              {({ selected }) => (
+                <>
+                  {optionRenderer(option, { selected })}
+                  {showCheckmark && selected ? (
+                    <span className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 flex items-center pl-3 text-accent">
+                      <CheckIcon className="h-5 w-5" aria-hidden="true" />
+                    </span>
+                  ) : null}
+                </>
+              )}
+            </SharedListboxOption>
+          ))}
+        </SharedListboxOptions>
+      </Transition>
     </Listbox>
   );
 }

src/components/views/HTMLViewer.tsx

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ export function HTMLViewer({
     currentSentence,
     currentSentenceAlignment,
     currentWordIndex,
+    resolvedLanguage,
   } = useTTS();
   const { htmlHighlightEnabled, htmlWordHighlightEnabled } = useConfig();
 
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ export function HTMLViewer({
       // here (not in cleanup) avoids a Strict-Mode-induced wipe of the very
       // first highlight.
       clearHtmlSentenceHighlight();
-      const matched = highlightHtmlSentence(container, currentSentence);
+      const matched = highlightHtmlSentence(container, currentSentence, resolvedLanguage);
       if (matched) {
         scrollSentenceIntoView(scrollRef.current);
         return;
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ export function HTMLViewer({
   }, [
     htmlHighlightEnabled,
     currentSentence,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     blocks,
     clearSentenceTimeouts,
     scheduleSentence,

src/components/views/PDFViewer.tsx

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export function PDFViewer({ zoomLevel, onDocumentReady, pdfState }: PDFViewerPro
     currentSentenceAlignment,
     currentSegment,
     skipToLocation,
+    resolvedLanguage,
   } = useTTS();
 
   const {
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ export function PDFViewer({ zoomLevel, onDocumentReady, pdfState }: PDFViewerPro
         parsedDocument,
         locator: activeLocator,
         useBlockGeometryOnly,
+        language: resolvedLanguage,
       });
     };
 
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@ export function PDFViewer({ zoomLevel, onDocumentReady, pdfState }: PDFViewerPro
     pdfHighlightEnabled,
     pdfWordHighlightEnabled,
     parsedDocument,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     layoutKey,
     isPageRendering,
     clearSentenceHighlightTimeouts,

src/contexts/TTSContext.tsx

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ import {
 } from '@/lib/client/epub/tts-epub-handoff';
 import { normalizeTtsLocationKey } from '@/lib/shared/tts-locator';
 import { resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
+import { resolveTtsLanguage } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import { useAuthRateLimit } from '@/contexts/AuthRateLimitContext';
 import type {
   EpubRenderedLocationWalker,
@@ -146,6 +147,9 @@ interface TTSContextType extends TTSPlaybackState {
   setSpeedAndRestart: (speed: number) => void;
   setAudioPlayerSpeedAndRestart: (speed: number) => void;
   setVoiceAndRestart: (voice: string) => void;
+  documentLanguage: string;
+  resolvedLanguage: string;
+  setDocumentLanguage: (language: string) => void;
   clearSegmentCaches: () => void;
   skipToLocation: (location: TTSLocation, shouldPause?: boolean) => void;
   registerLocationChangeHandler: (handler: ((location: TTSLocation) => void) | null) => void;  // EPUB-only: Handles chapter navigation
@@ -234,8 +238,9 @@ const normalizeLocationKey = normalizeTtsLocationKey;
 
 const normalizeBlockFingerprint = (text: string): string => {
   const normalized = preprocessSentenceForAudio(text)
+    .normalize('NFKC')
     .toLowerCase()
-    .replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/g, ' ')
+    .replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}\s]/gu, ' ')
     .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
     .trim();
   return normalized.slice(0, 200);
@@ -249,6 +254,7 @@ const buildCacheKey = (
   model: string,
   providerType: string,
   instructions: string,
+  language: string,
 ) => {
   return [
     `provider=${provider || ''}`,
@@ -257,6 +263,7 @@ const buildCacheKey = (
     `voice=${voice || ''}`,
     `speed=${Number.isFinite(speed) ? speed : ''}`,
     `instructions=${instructions || ''}`,
+    `language=${language || ''}`,
     `text=${sentence}`,
   ].join('|');
 };
@@ -271,10 +278,11 @@ const buildScopedSegmentCacheKey = (
   model: string,
   providerType: string,
   instructions: string,
+  language: string,
   segmentKey?: string | null,
 ) => {
   return [
-    buildCacheKey(sentence, voice, speed, provider, model, providerType, instructions),
+    buildCacheKey(sentence, voice, speed, provider, model, providerType, instructions, language),
     `segmentKey=${segmentKey || ''}`,
     `locator=${segmentKey ? '' : buildLocatorRequestKey(locator)}`,
     `segmentIndex=${segmentKey ? '' : segmentIndex}`,
@@ -567,6 +575,11 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
   const [voice, setVoice] = useState(configVoice);
   const [ttsModel, setTTSModel] = useState(configTTSModel);
   const [ttsInstructions, setTTSInstructions] = useState(configTTSInstructions);
+  const [documentLanguage, setDocumentLanguage] = useState('auto');
+  const resolvedLanguage = useMemo(
+    () => resolveTtsLanguage({ configuredLanguage: documentLanguage, voice }),
+    [documentLanguage, voice],
+  );
   const providerModelPolicy = useMemo(
     () => resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy({
       providerRef: configProviderRef,
@@ -1231,6 +1244,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
       maxBlockLength: ttsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
       keyPrefix: buildSegmentKeyPrefix(documentId, activeReaderType),
       enforceSourceBoundaries: activeReaderType === 'pdf' && currentUnits !== null && currentUnits.length > 0,
+      language: resolvedLanguage,
     });
     const currentSegments = plan.segments.filter((segment) => currentSourceKeySet.has(segment.ownerSourceKey));
     const newSentences = currentSegments.map((segment) => segment.text);
@@ -1383,6 +1397,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     currDocPage,
     documentId,
     ttsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     clearPendingEpubJump,
   ]);
 
@@ -1496,6 +1511,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
       voice,
       effectiveNativeSpeed,
       providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+      resolvedLanguage,
       ttsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
     ].join('|');
 
@@ -1516,6 +1532,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     effectiveNativeSpeed,
     providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions,
     ttsInstructions,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     ttsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
     clearPendingEpubJump,
     bumpEpubPreloadGeneration,
@@ -1589,6 +1606,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
       ttsModel,
       configProviderType,
       providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+      resolvedLanguage,
       segmentKey,
     );
 
@@ -1669,6 +1687,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
               voice,
               nativeSpeed: effectiveNativeSpeed,
               ...(providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions && ttsInstructions ? { ttsInstructions } : {}),
+              language: resolvedLanguage,
             },
             segments: persistSegments,
           }, reqHeaders, controller.signal),
@@ -1772,6 +1791,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     effectiveNativeSpeed,
     ttsModel,
     ttsInstructions,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     openApiKey,
     openApiBaseUrl,
     configProviderRef,
@@ -2253,6 +2273,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
       ttsModel,
       configProviderType,
       providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+      resolvedLanguage,
       playbackSegment?.key,
     );
     const cachedAlignment = sentenceAlignmentCacheRef.current.get(alignmentKey);
@@ -2290,6 +2311,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     configProviderType,
     providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions,
     ttsInstructions,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     isEPUB,
     currDocPage,
     currDocPageNumber,
@@ -2388,6 +2410,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
           ttsModel,
           configProviderType,
           providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+          resolvedLanguage,
           nextSegment?.key,
         );
         if (segmentManifestCacheRef.current.has(cacheKey)) {
@@ -2498,6 +2521,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
             readerType: 'epub',
             maxBlockLength: ttsSegmentMaxBlockLength,
             keyPrefix: buildSegmentKeyPrefix(documentId, 'epub'),
+            language: resolvedLanguage,
           });
           const uniqueCandidates: Array<EpubLocationPreloadCandidate & { locator: TTSSegmentLocator }> = [];
           const seenCandidates = new Set<string>();
@@ -2520,6 +2544,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
                 ttsModel,
                 configProviderType,
                 providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+                resolvedLanguage,
                 segment.key,
               );
               if (seenCandidates.has(requestKey)) continue;
@@ -2564,6 +2589,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
                   voice,
                   nativeSpeed: effectiveNativeSpeed,
                   ...(providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions && ttsInstructions ? { ttsInstructions } : {}),
+                  language: resolvedLanguage,
                 },
                 segments: persistPayload,
               }, reqHeaders, controller.signal),
@@ -2660,6 +2686,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
         ttsModel,
         configProviderType,
         providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+        resolvedLanguage,
         plannedSegment?.key,
       );
       const requestKey = buildSegmentRequestKey(locator, sentenceIndex, sentence, plannedSegment?.key);
@@ -2691,6 +2718,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
           ttsModel,
           configProviderType,
           providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions ? ttsInstructions : '',
+          resolvedLanguage,
           segment.key,
         );
         const requestKey = buildSegmentRequestKey(segmentLocator, index, sentence, segment.key);
@@ -2755,6 +2783,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
               voice,
               nativeSpeed: effectiveNativeSpeed,
               ...(providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions && ttsInstructions ? { ttsInstructions } : {}),
+              language: resolvedLanguage,
             },
             segments: persistPayload,
           }, reqHeaders, controller.signal),
@@ -2841,6 +2870,7 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     openApiBaseUrl,
     providerModelPolicy.supportsInstructions,
     ttsInstructions,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     onTTSStart,
     onTTSComplete,
     processSentence,
@@ -3145,6 +3175,9 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     setSpeedAndRestart,
     setAudioPlayerSpeedAndRestart,
     setVoiceAndRestart,
+    documentLanguage,
+    resolvedLanguage,
+    setDocumentLanguage,
     clearSegmentCaches,
     skipToLocation,
     registerLocationChangeHandler,
@@ -3176,6 +3209,8 @@ export function TTSProvider({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactElement
     setSpeedAndRestart,
     setAudioPlayerSpeedAndRestart,
     setVoiceAndRestart,
+    documentLanguage,
+    resolvedLanguage,
     clearSegmentCaches,
     skipToLocation,
     registerLocationChangeHandler,

src/hooks/epub/useEPUBHighlighting.ts

@@ -4,11 +4,15 @@ import { useCallback, useEffect, type MutableRefObject, type RefObject } from 'r
 import type { Rendition } from 'epubjs';
 
 import {
-  buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap,
   buildWordHighlightCacheKey,
+  resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange,
   tokenizeCanonicalSegment,
   type EpubCanonicalWordToken,
 } from '@/lib/client/epub/epub-word-highlight';
+import {
+  buildAlignmentTokenRanges,
+  type HighlightTokenRange,
+} from '@/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment';
 import {
   createRangeFromMappedOffsets,
   resolveVisibleSegmentRange,
@@ -19,7 +23,7 @@ import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '@/types/tts';
 
 export type EpubWordHighlightMapCache = {
   key: string;
-  wordToToken: number[];
+  wordToTokenRange: Array<HighlightTokenRange | null>;
   tokens: EpubCanonicalWordToken[];
 };
 
@@ -30,6 +34,7 @@ type UseEpubHighlightingParams = {
   currentWordHighlightCfiRef: MutableRefObject<string | null>;
   renderedTextMapsRef: MutableRefObject<EpubRenderedTextMap[]>;
   wordHighlightMapCacheRef: MutableRefObject<EpubWordHighlightMapCache | null>;
+  language?: string;
 };
 
 type UseEpubHighlightingResult = {
@@ -52,6 +57,7 @@ export function useEPUBHighlighting({
   currentWordHighlightCfiRef,
   renderedTextMapsRef,
   wordHighlightMapCacheRef,
+  language,
 }: UseEpubHighlightingParams): UseEpubHighlightingResult {
   const clearWordHighlights = useCallback(() => {
     if (!renditionRef.current) return;
@@ -116,25 +122,68 @@ export function useEPUBHighlighting({
     const resolved = resolveVisibleSegmentRange(renderedTextMapsRef.current, segment);
     if (!resolved || segment.startAnchor.sourceKey !== resolved.map.sourceKey) return;
 
-    const cacheKey = buildWordHighlightCacheKey(segment, alignment);
+    const alignmentRange = resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange(segment, words[wordIndex]);
+    if (
+      alignmentRange
+      && alignmentRange.sourceStart >= resolved.startOffset
+      && alignmentRange.sourceEnd <= resolved.endOffset
+    ) {
+      const wordRange = createRangeFromMappedOffsets(
+        resolved.map,
+        alignmentRange.sourceStart,
+        alignmentRange.sourceEnd,
+      );
+      if (wordRange) {
+        try {
+          const wordCfi = resolved.map.content.cfiFromRange(wordRange);
+          currentWordHighlightCfiRef.current = wordCfi;
+          renditionRef.current.annotations.add(
+            'highlight',
+            wordCfi,
+            {},
+            () => { },
+            '',
+            {
+              fill: 'var(--accent)',
+              'fill-opacity': '0.4',
+              'mix-blend-mode': 'multiply',
+            }
+          );
+          return;
+        } catch (error) {
+          console.error('Error highlighting EPUB word from alignment offsets:', error);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    const cacheKey = buildWordHighlightCacheKey(segment, alignment, language);
     if (wordHighlightMapCacheRef.current?.key !== cacheKey) {
-      const tokens = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment);
+      const tokens = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment, language);
       wordHighlightMapCacheRef.current = {
         key: cacheKey,
         tokens,
-        wordToToken: buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap(words, tokens),
+        wordToTokenRange: buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+          words,
+          tokens.map((token) => token.norm),
+          { minimumSimilarity: 0.8 },
+        ),
       };
     }
 
     const cached = wordHighlightMapCacheRef.current;
-    const tokenIndex = cached.wordToToken[wordIndex] ?? -1;
+    const tokenRange = cached.wordToTokenRange[wordIndex];
-    if (tokenIndex < 0) return;
+    if (!tokenRange) return;
 
-    const token = cached.tokens[tokenIndex];
+    const firstToken = cached.tokens[tokenRange.start];
-    if (!token) return;
+    const lastToken = cached.tokens[tokenRange.end];
-    if (token.sourceStart < resolved.startOffset || token.sourceEnd > resolved.endOffset) return;
+    if (!firstToken || !lastToken) return;
+    if (firstToken.sourceStart < resolved.startOffset || lastToken.sourceEnd > resolved.endOffset) return;
 
-    const wordRange = createRangeFromMappedOffsets(resolved.map, token.sourceStart, token.sourceEnd);
+    const wordRange = createRangeFromMappedOffsets(
+      resolved.map,
+      firstToken.sourceStart,
+      lastToken.sourceEnd,
+    );
     if (!wordRange) return;
 
     try {
@@ -162,6 +211,7 @@ export function useEPUBHighlighting({
     renderedTextMapsRef,
     renditionRef,
     wordHighlightMapCacheRef,
+    language,
   ]);
 
   const setRenderedTextMaps = useCallback((maps: EpubRenderedTextMap[]) => {

src/hooks/useDocumentLanguage.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+'use client';
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+
+import { getDocumentSettings, putDocumentSettings } from '@/lib/client/api/documents';
+import { mergeDocumentSettings } from '@/lib/shared/document-settings';
+import { DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, type DocumentSettings } from '@/types/document-settings';
+
+export function useDocumentLanguage(documentId: string | undefined): {
+  language: string;
+  updateLanguage: (language: string) => Promise<void>;
+} {
+  const [settings, setSettings] = useState<DocumentSettings>(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS);
+    if (!documentId) return;
+
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    void getDocumentSettings(documentId, { signal: controller.signal })
+      .then((response) => {
+        setSettings(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, response.settings));
+      })
+      .catch((error) => {
+        if (error instanceof DOMException && error.name === 'AbortError') return;
+        console.warn('Failed to load document language, using automatic detection:', error);
+      });
+
+    return () => controller.abort();
+  }, [documentId]);
+
+  const updateLanguage = useCallback(async (language: string): Promise<void> => {
+    if (!documentId) return;
+    let next = DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS;
+    setSettings((prev) => {
+      next = mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, {
+        ...prev,
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        language,
+      });
+      return next;
+    });
+    try {
+      const response = await putDocumentSettings(documentId, next);
+      setSettings(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, response.settings));
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.warn('Failed to persist document language:', error);
+    }
+  }, [documentId]);
+
+  return {
+    language: settings.language ?? 'auto',
+    updateLanguage,
+  };
+}

src/lib/client/audiobooks/pipeline.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
   TTSAudiobookChapter,
   TTSAudiobookFormat,
 } from '@/types/tts';
+import { normalizeTextForTts } from '@/lib/shared/nlp';
 
 export interface PreparedAudiobookChapter {
   index: number;
@@ -109,7 +110,10 @@ export async function runAudiobookGeneration({
     maxDelay: 300,
   },
 }: RunAudiobookGenerationOptions): Promise<string> {
-  const chapters = await adapter.prepareChapters();
+  const chapters = (await adapter.prepareChapters()).map((chapter) => ({
+    ...chapter,
+    text: normalizeTextForTts(chapter.text, { language: settings?.language }),
+  }));
   const totalLength = chapters.reduce((sum, chapter) => sum + chapter.text.trim().length, 0);
   if (totalLength === 0) {
     throw new Error(adapter.noContentMessage);
@@ -228,7 +232,7 @@ export async function regenerateAudiobookChapter({
   },
 }: RegenerateAudiobookChapterOptions): Promise<TTSAudiobookChapter> {
   const chapter = await adapter.prepareChapter(chapterIndex);
-  const trimmedText = chapter.text.trim();
+  const trimmedText = normalizeTextForTts(chapter.text, { language: settings?.language }).trim();
   if (!trimmedText) {
     throw new Error(adapter.noContentMessage);
   }

src/lib/client/epub/epub-word-highlight.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import type { CanonicalTtsSegment } from '@/lib/shared/tts-segment-plan';
-import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '@/types/tts';
+import type { TTSSentenceAlignment, TTSSentenceWord } from '@/types/tts';
+import { segmentWords } from '@/lib/shared/language';
+import { normalizeHighlightToken } from '@/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment';
 
 export type EpubCanonicalWordToken = {
   norm: string;
@@ -8,107 +10,43 @@ export type EpubCanonicalWordToken = {
 };
 
 export const normalizeWordForHighlight = (text: string): string =>
-  text
+  normalizeHighlightToken(text);
-    .toLowerCase()
-    .replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '');
 
-export const tokenizeCanonicalSegment = (segment: CanonicalTtsSegment): EpubCanonicalWordToken[] => {
+export const resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange = (
-  const tokens: EpubCanonicalWordToken[] = [];
+  segment: CanonicalTtsSegment,
-  const wordRegex = /\S+/g;
+  word: TTSSentenceWord,
-  let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+): { sourceStart: number; sourceEnd: number } | null => {
+  const { charStart, charEnd } = word;
+  if (!Number.isInteger(charStart) || !Number.isInteger(charEnd)) return null;
+  if (charStart < 0 || charEnd <= charStart || charEnd > segment.text.length) return null;
 
-  while ((match = wordRegex.exec(segment.text)) !== null) {
+  return {
-    const raw = match[0];
+    sourceStart: segment.startAnchor.offset + charStart,
-    const leading = raw.match(/^[^A-Za-z0-9]*/)?.[0].length ?? 0;
+    sourceEnd: segment.startAnchor.offset + charEnd,
-    const trailing = raw.match(/[^A-Za-z0-9]*$/)?.[0].length ?? 0;
+  };
-    const start = match.index + leading;
-    const end = match.index + raw.length - trailing;
-    if (end <= start) continue;
-
-    const norm = normalizeWordForHighlight(raw.slice(leading, raw.length - trailing));
-    if (!norm) continue;
-
-    tokens.push({
-      norm,
-      sourceStart: segment.startAnchor.offset + start,
-      sourceEnd: segment.startAnchor.offset + end,
-    });
-  }
-
-  return tokens;
 };
 
-export const buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap = (
+export const tokenizeCanonicalSegment = (
-  alignmentWords: TTSSentenceAlignment['words'],
+  segment: CanonicalTtsSegment,
-  segmentTokens: EpubCanonicalWordToken[],
+  language?: string,
-): number[] => {
+): EpubCanonicalWordToken[] =>
-  const alignmentTokens = alignmentWords.map((word) => normalizeWordForHighlight(word.text));
+  segmentWords(segment.text, language)
-  const wordToToken = new Array<number>(alignmentWords.length).fill(-1);
+    .map((token) => ({
-  const m = alignmentTokens.length;
+      norm: normalizeWordForHighlight(token.text),
-  const n = segmentTokens.length;
+      sourceStart: segment.startAnchor.offset + token.start,
-  if (!m || !n) return wordToToken;
+      sourceEnd: segment.startAnchor.offset + token.end,
-
+    }))
-  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(0));
+    .filter((token) => Boolean(token.norm));
-  const bt: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(0));
-
-  for (let i = 1; i <= m; i += 1) {
-    for (let j = 1; j <= n; j += 1) {
-      let best = dp[i - 1][j - 1];
-      let move = 0;
-
-      const alignmentNorm = alignmentTokens[i - 1];
-      const segmentNorm = segmentTokens[j - 1].norm;
-      if (alignmentNorm && alignmentNorm === segmentNorm) {
-        const positionPenalty =
-          m <= 1 || n <= 1
-            ? 0
-            : Math.abs((i - 1) / (m - 1) - (j - 1) / (n - 1));
-        best = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 10 - positionPenalty;
-        move = 1;
-      }
-
-      if (dp[i - 1][j] > best) {
-        best = dp[i - 1][j];
-        move = 2;
-      }
-      if (dp[i][j - 1] > best) {
-        best = dp[i][j - 1];
-        move = 3;
-      }
-
-      dp[i][j] = best;
-      bt[i][j] = move;
-    }
-  }
-
-  let i = m;
-  let j = n;
-  while (i > 0 && j > 0) {
-    const move = bt[i][j];
-    if (move === 1) {
-      wordToToken[i - 1] = j - 1;
-      i -= 1;
-      j -= 1;
-    } else if (move === 2) {
-      i -= 1;
-    } else if (move === 3) {
-      j -= 1;
-    } else {
-      i -= 1;
-      j -= 1;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return wordToToken;
-};
 
 export const buildWordHighlightCacheKey = (
   segment: CanonicalTtsSegment,
   alignment: TTSSentenceAlignment,
+  language?: string,
 ): string =>
   [
     segment.key,
     segment.text.length,
+    language || '',
     alignment.words.length,
     alignment.words.map((word) => normalizeWordForHighlight(word.text)).join('|'),
   ].join('::');

src/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+import { CmpStr } from 'cmpstr';
+
+import { normalizeUnicodeToken } from '@/lib/shared/language';
+import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '@/types/tts';
+
+const cmp = CmpStr.create().setMetric('dice').setFlags('itw');
+
+export interface HighlightTokenRange {
+  start: number;
+  end: number;
+}
+
+export interface HighlightTokenMatchResult extends HighlightTokenRange {
+  rating: number;
+  lengthDiff: number;
+}
+
+export function normalizeHighlightToken(text: string): string {
+  return normalizeUnicodeToken(text);
+}
+
+export function findBestHighlightTokenMatch(
+  patternTokens: string[],
+  tokenTexts: string[],
+): HighlightTokenMatchResult {
+  const normalizedPattern = patternTokens.map(normalizeHighlightToken).filter(Boolean);
+  const normalizedTargets = tokenTexts.map(normalizeHighlightToken);
+  const cleanPattern = normalizedPattern.join('');
+  const patternLen = cleanPattern.length;
+  const responseBase: HighlightTokenMatchResult = {
+    start: -1,
+    end: -1,
+    rating: 0,
+    lengthDiff: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
+  };
+
+  if (!patternLen || !normalizedTargets.length) return responseBase;
+
+  // Most viewer highlights are exact token sequences. Resolve those in one
+  // linear pass before entering the fuzzy window search, which is expensive
+  // enough to stall the UI when the target is a full HTML/TXT/MD document.
+  const firstPatternToken = normalizedPattern[0];
+  for (let start = 0; start < normalizedTargets.length; start += 1) {
+    if (normalizedTargets[start] !== firstPatternToken) continue;
+    let matches = true;
+    for (let offset = 1; offset < normalizedPattern.length; offset += 1) {
+      if (normalizedTargets[start + offset] !== normalizedPattern[offset]) {
+        matches = false;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    if (matches) {
+      return {
+        start,
+        end: start + normalizedPattern.length - 1,
+        rating: 1,
+        lengthDiff: 0,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  const patternTokenCount = normalizedPattern.length;
+  const minWindowTokens = Math.max(1, Math.floor(patternTokenCount * 0.6));
+  const maxWindowTokens = Math.max(
+    minWindowTokens,
+    Math.ceil(patternTokenCount * 1.4),
+  );
+
+  let bestStart = -1;
+  let bestEnd = -1;
+  let bestRating = 0;
+  let bestLengthDiff = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
+
+  for (let start = 0; start < normalizedTargets.length; start += 1) {
+    let combined = '';
+
+    for (
+      let offset = 0;
+      offset < maxWindowTokens && start + offset < normalizedTargets.length;
+      offset += 1
+    ) {
+      combined += normalizedTargets[start + offset];
+
+      const windowSize = offset + 1;
+      if (windowSize < minWindowTokens) continue;
+      if (combined.length > patternLen * 2) break;
+
+      const similarity = cmp.compare(combined, cleanPattern);
+      const lengthDiff = Math.abs(combined.length - patternLen);
+      const lengthPenalty = lengthDiff / patternLen;
+      const adjustedRating = similarity * (1 - lengthPenalty * 0.3);
+
+      let boostedRating = adjustedRating;
+      const maxPrefixCheck = Math.min(windowSize, normalizedPattern.length, 5);
+      let prefixMatches = 0;
+      for (let i = 0; i < maxPrefixCheck; i += 1) {
+        const tokenSim = cmp.compare(normalizedTargets[start + i], normalizedPattern[i]);
+        if (tokenSim < 0.8) break;
+        prefixMatches += 1;
+      }
+
+      if (prefixMatches > 0) {
+        boostedRating = adjustedRating * (1 + (prefixMatches / maxPrefixCheck) * 0.25);
+      }
+
+      if (
+        boostedRating > bestRating
+        || (
+          Math.abs(boostedRating - bestRating) < 1e-3
+          && lengthDiff < bestLengthDiff
+        )
+      ) {
+        bestRating = boostedRating;
+        bestLengthDiff = lengthDiff;
+        bestStart = start;
+        bestEnd = start + offset;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    start: bestStart,
+    end: bestEnd,
+    rating: bestRating,
+    lengthDiff: bestLengthDiff,
+  };
+}
+
+function buildExactConcatenatedRanges(
+  alignmentNorms: string[],
+  targetNorms: string[],
+): Array<HighlightTokenRange | null> | null {
+  if (alignmentNorms.join('') !== targetNorms.join('')) return null;
+
+  const targetOffsets: HighlightTokenRange[] = [];
+  let targetCursor = 0;
+  for (const norm of targetNorms) {
+    targetOffsets.push({ start: targetCursor, end: targetCursor + norm.length });
+    targetCursor += norm.length;
+  }
+
+  const ranges: Array<HighlightTokenRange | null> = [];
+  let alignmentCursor = 0;
+  for (const norm of alignmentNorms) {
+    const alignmentStart = alignmentCursor;
+    const alignmentEnd = alignmentStart + norm.length;
+    alignmentCursor = alignmentEnd;
+
+    let first = -1;
+    let last = -1;
+    for (let i = 0; i < targetOffsets.length; i += 1) {
+      const target = targetOffsets[i];
+      if (target.end <= alignmentStart) continue;
+      if (target.start >= alignmentEnd) break;
+      if (first === -1) first = i;
+      last = i;
+    }
+    ranges.push(first === -1 ? null : { start: first, end: last });
+  }
+
+  return ranges;
+}
+
+export function buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+  alignmentWords: TTSSentenceAlignment['words'],
+  targetTexts: string[],
+  options: { fillGaps?: boolean; minimumSimilarity?: number } = {},
+): Array<HighlightTokenRange | null> {
+  const alignmentNorms = alignmentWords.map((word) => normalizeHighlightToken(word.text));
+  const targetNorms = targetTexts.map(normalizeHighlightToken);
+  const ranges = new Array<HighlightTokenRange | null>(alignmentWords.length).fill(null);
+
+  const exactRanges = buildExactConcatenatedRanges(alignmentNorms, targetNorms);
+  if (exactRanges) return exactRanges;
+
+  const targets = targetNorms
+    .map((norm, tokenIndex) => ({ norm, tokenIndex }))
+    .filter((token) => Boolean(token.norm));
+  const alignments = alignmentNorms
+    .map((norm, wordIndex) => ({ norm, wordIndex }))
+    .filter((word) => Boolean(word.norm));
+  const m = targets.length;
+  const n = alignments.length;
+  if (!m || !n) return ranges;
+
+  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
+    new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY),
+  );
+  const bt: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
+    new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(0),
+  );
+  dp[0][0] = 0;
+  const gapCost = 0.7;
+
+  for (let i = 0; i <= m; i += 1) {
+    for (let j = 0; j <= n; j += 1) {
+      if (i > 0 && j > 0) {
+        const a = targets[i - 1].norm;
+        const b = alignments[j - 1].norm;
+        const similarity = a === b ? 1 : cmp.compare(a, b);
+        const candidate = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + (1 - similarity);
+        if (candidate < dp[i][j]) {
+          dp[i][j] = candidate;
+          bt[i][j] = 0;
+        }
+      }
+      if (i > 0 && dp[i - 1][j] + gapCost < dp[i][j]) {
+        dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j] + gapCost;
+        bt[i][j] = 1;
+      }
+      if (j > 0 && dp[i][j - 1] + gapCost < dp[i][j]) {
+        dp[i][j] = dp[i][j - 1] + gapCost;
+        bt[i][j] = 2;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  let i = m;
+  let j = n;
+  while (i > 0 || j > 0) {
+    const move = bt[i][j];
+    if (i > 0 && j > 0 && move === 0) {
+      const tokenIndex = targets[i - 1].tokenIndex;
+      const a = targets[i - 1].norm;
+      const b = alignments[j - 1].norm;
+      const similarity = a === b ? 1 : cmp.compare(a, b);
+      if (similarity >= (options.minimumSimilarity ?? 0)) {
+        ranges[alignments[j - 1].wordIndex] = { start: tokenIndex, end: tokenIndex };
+      }
+      i -= 1;
+      j -= 1;
+    } else if (i > 0 && (move === 1 || j === 0)) {
+      i -= 1;
+    } else if (j > 0 && (move === 2 || i === 0)) {
+      j -= 1;
+    } else {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!options.fillGaps) return ranges;
+
+  let lastSeen: HighlightTokenRange | null = null;
+  for (let k = 0; k < ranges.length; k += 1) {
+    if (ranges[k]) lastSeen = ranges[k];
+    else if (lastSeen) ranges[k] = lastSeen;
+  }
+  let nextSeen: HighlightTokenRange | null = null;
+  for (let k = ranges.length - 1; k >= 0; k -= 1) {
+    if (ranges[k]) nextSeen = ranges[k];
+    else if (nextSeen) ranges[k] = nextSeen;
+  }
+
+  return ranges;
+}

src/lib/client/html/highlight.ts

@@ -11,13 +11,18 @@
  *    sentence
  *  - `WORD` — saturated background on the currently-spoken word
  *
- * Word-to-DOM alignment is done via Needleman-Wunsch (same approach the PDF
+ * Word-to-DOM alignment uses the shared viewer token-range mapper so DOM token
- * reader uses) so DOM token counts that diverge from whisper's word count
+ * counts that diverge from the timed alignment still produce a smooth,
- * still produce a smooth, monotonic word highlight rather than a proportional
+ * monotonic highlight across languages.
- * approximation that snaps around when the counts disagree.
  */
-import { CmpStr } from 'cmpstr';
 import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '@/types/tts';
+import { segmentWords } from '@/lib/shared/language';
+import {
+  buildAlignmentTokenRanges,
+  findBestHighlightTokenMatch,
+  normalizeHighlightToken,
+  type HighlightTokenRange,
+} from '@/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment';
 
 export const HTML_SENTENCE_CLASS = 'openreader-html-highlight-sentence';
 export const HTML_WORD_CLASS = 'openreader-html-highlight-word';
@@ -29,8 +34,6 @@ interface DomToken {
   norm: string;
 }
 
-const cmp = CmpStr.create().setMetric('dice').setFlags('itw');
-
 let sentenceWraps: HTMLSpanElement[] = [];
 let wordWraps: HTMLSpanElement[] = [];
 
@@ -45,29 +48,19 @@ interface SentenceState {
   // is in place. Stable across word wrap/unwrap cycles because clear() calls
   // `parent.normalize()` which restores the original text-node structure.
   wordTokens: DomToken[];
-  // For an alignment we've already seen, the cached wordIndex → tokenIndex map.
+  // For an alignment we've already seen, the cached wordIndex → token range map.
   alignment: TTSSentenceAlignment | null;
-  wordToToken: number[] | null;
+  wordToTokenRange: Array<HighlightTokenRange | null> | null;
 }
 
 let sentenceState: SentenceState | null = null;
 
 function normalizeWord(word: string): string {
-  return word
+  return normalizeHighlightToken(word);
-    .toLowerCase()
-    .replace(/[\p{P}\p{S}]+/gu, '')
-    .trim();
 }
 
-function tokenizePattern(pattern: string): string[] {
+function tokenizePattern(pattern: string, language?: string): string[] {
-  const out: string[] = [];
+  return segmentWords(pattern, language).map((token) => normalizeWord(token.text)).filter(Boolean);
-  const wordRe = /\S+/g;
-  let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
-  while ((m = wordRe.exec(pattern)) !== null) {
-    const norm = normalizeWord(m[0]);
-    if (norm) out.push(norm);
-  }
-  return out;
 }
 
 function unwrap(span: HTMLSpanElement): void {
@@ -108,7 +101,11 @@ function isHighlightWrapper(node: Node | null): node is HTMLSpanElement {
   return el.classList.contains(HTML_SENTENCE_CLASS) || el.classList.contains(HTML_WORD_CLASS);
 }
 
-function collectDomTokens(root: HTMLElement, opts: { skipHighlightWraps: boolean } = { skipHighlightWraps: true }): DomToken[] {
+function collectDomTokens(
+  root: HTMLElement,
+  language?: string,
+  opts: { skipHighlightWraps: boolean } = { skipHighlightWraps: true },
+): DomToken[] {
   const walker = document.createTreeWalker(root, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT, {
     acceptNode(node) {
       const parent = node.parentElement;
@@ -131,15 +128,13 @@ function collectDomTokens(root: HTMLElement, opts: { skipHighlightWraps: boolean
   while (current) {
     const textNode = current as Text;
     const text = textNode.nodeValue || '';
-    const wordRe = /\S+/g;
+    for (const token of segmentWords(text, language)) {
-    let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+      const norm = normalizeWord(token.text);
-    while ((m = wordRe.exec(text)) !== null) {
-      const norm = normalizeWord(m[0]);
       if (!norm) continue;
       tokens.push({
         textNode,
-        startOffset: m.index,
+        startOffset: token.start,
-        endOffset: m.index + m[0].length,
+        endOffset: token.end,
         norm,
       });
     }
@@ -153,7 +148,7 @@ function collectDomTokens(root: HTMLElement, opts: { skipHighlightWraps: boolean
  * wrap is applied; lets us index just the words *within* the highlighted
  * sentence rather than the whole document).
  */
-function collectTokensInsideWraps(wraps: HTMLSpanElement[]): DomToken[] {
+function collectTokensInsideWraps(wraps: HTMLSpanElement[], language?: string): DomToken[] {
   const tokens: DomToken[] = [];
   for (const wrap of wraps) {
     const walker = document.createTreeWalker(wrap, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT);
@@ -161,15 +156,13 @@ function collectTokensInsideWraps(wraps: HTMLSpanElement[]): DomToken[] {
     while (current) {
       const t = current as Text;
       const text = t.nodeValue || '';
-      const wordRe = /\S+/g;
+      for (const token of segmentWords(text, language)) {
-      let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+        const norm = normalizeWord(token.text);
-      while ((m = wordRe.exec(text)) !== null) {
-        const norm = normalizeWord(m[0]);
         if (!norm) continue;
         tokens.push({
           textNode: t,
-          startOffset: m.index,
+          startOffset: token.start,
-          endOffset: m.index + m[0].length,
+          endOffset: token.end,
           norm,
         });
       }
@@ -180,43 +173,9 @@ function collectTokensInsideWraps(wraps: HTMLSpanElement[]): DomToken[] {
 }
 
 function findBestWindow(tokens: DomToken[], patternTokens: string[]): { start: number; end: number } | null {
-  if (!tokens.length || !patternTokens.length) return null;
+  const match = findBestHighlightTokenMatch(patternTokens, tokens.map((token) => token.norm));
-  const pLen = patternTokens.length;
+  if (match.start === -1 || match.rating < 0.5) return null;
-
+  return { start: match.start, end: match.end };
-  let bestStart = -1;
-  let bestEnd = -1;
-  let bestScore = 0;
-
-  for (let i = 0; i + Math.max(1, Math.ceil(pLen * 0.5)) - 1 < tokens.length; i += 1) {
-    if (tokens[i].norm !== patternTokens[0]) continue;
-    let matches = 1;
-    let domCursor = i + 1;
-    for (let p = 1; p < pLen && domCursor < tokens.length; p += 1) {
-      let stepped = false;
-      for (let k = 0; k < 3 && domCursor + k < tokens.length; k += 1) {
-        if (tokens[domCursor + k].norm === patternTokens[p]) {
-          matches += 1;
-          domCursor += k + 1;
-          stepped = true;
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-      if (!stepped) domCursor += 1;
-    }
-    const end = Math.min(tokens.length - 1, domCursor - 1);
-    const score = matches / pLen;
-    if (score > bestScore) {
-      bestScore = score;
-      bestStart = i;
-      bestEnd = end;
-      if (score >= 0.95) break;
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (bestScore >= 0.5 && bestStart !== -1) {
-    return { start: bestStart, end: bestEnd };
-  }
-  return null;
 }
 
 function wrapTokenRange(tokens: DomToken[], start: number, end: number, className: string): HTMLSpanElement[] {
@@ -260,14 +219,15 @@ function wrapTokenRange(tokens: DomToken[], start: number, end: number, classNam
 export function highlightHtmlSentence(
   container: HTMLElement | null | undefined,
   sentence: string | null | undefined,
+  language?: string,
 ): boolean {
   clearHtmlSentenceHighlight();
   if (!container || !sentence?.trim()) return false;
 
-  const patternTokens = tokenizePattern(sentence);
+  const patternTokens = tokenizePattern(sentence, language);
   if (!patternTokens.length) return false;
 
-  const domTokens = collectDomTokens(container);
+  const domTokens = collectDomTokens(container, language);
   if (!domTokens.length) return false;
 
   const win = findBestWindow(domTokens, patternTokens);
@@ -280,118 +240,13 @@ export function highlightHtmlSentence(
   // can look up individual word tokens without re-walking the doc.
   sentenceState = {
     sentence,
-    wordTokens: collectTokensInsideWraps(sentenceWraps),
+    wordTokens: collectTokensInsideWraps(sentenceWraps, language),
     alignment: null,
-    wordToToken: null,
+    wordToTokenRange: null,
   };
   return true;
 }
 
-/**
- * Build a wordIndex → tokenIndex map via Needleman-Wunsch alignment between
- * whisper's word list and the DOM tokens inside the sentence. Mirrors the
- * approach in `src/lib/client/pdf.ts#highlightWordIndex` so PDF and HTML
- * highlights behave the same way under count mismatches (contractions,
- * stripped punctuation, missing whitespace, etc.).
- */
-function buildAlignmentMap(
-  alignment: TTSSentenceAlignment,
-  domTokens: DomToken[],
-): number[] {
-  const words = alignment.words || [];
-  const wordToToken = new Array<number>(words.length).fill(-1);
-
-  const domFiltered: { tokenIndex: number; norm: string }[] = [];
-  for (let i = 0; i < domTokens.length; i += 1) {
-    const norm = domTokens[i].norm;
-    if (norm) domFiltered.push({ tokenIndex: i, norm });
-  }
-
-  const ttsFiltered: { wordIndex: number; norm: string }[] = [];
-  for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i += 1) {
-    const norm = normalizeWord(words[i].text);
-    if (norm) ttsFiltered.push({ wordIndex: i, norm });
-  }
-
-  const m = domFiltered.length;
-  const n = ttsFiltered.length;
-  if (!m || !n) return wordToToken;
-
-  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
-    new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY),
-  );
-  const bt: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
-    new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(0),
-  ); // 0=diag (substitute), 1=up (skip dom), 2=left (skip tts)
-
-  dp[0][0] = 0;
-  const GAP_COST = 0.7;
-
-  for (let i = 0; i <= m; i += 1) {
-    for (let j = 0; j <= n; j += 1) {
-      if (i > 0 && j > 0) {
-        const a = domFiltered[i - 1].norm;
-        const b = ttsFiltered[j - 1].norm;
-        const sim = a === b ? 1 : cmp.compare(a, b);
-        const cand = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + (1 - sim);
-        if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-          dp[i][j] = cand;
-          bt[i][j] = 0;
-        }
-      }
-      if (i > 0) {
-        const cand = dp[i - 1][j] + GAP_COST;
-        if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-          dp[i][j] = cand;
-          bt[i][j] = 1;
-        }
-      }
-      if (j > 0) {
-        const cand = dp[i][j - 1] + GAP_COST;
-        if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-          dp[i][j] = cand;
-          bt[i][j] = 2;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  let i = m;
-  let j = n;
-  while (i > 0 || j > 0) {
-    const move = bt[i][j];
-    if (i > 0 && j > 0 && move === 0) {
-      const domIdx = domFiltered[i - 1].tokenIndex;
-      const ttsIdx = ttsFiltered[j - 1].wordIndex;
-      if (wordToToken[ttsIdx] === -1) wordToToken[ttsIdx] = domIdx;
-      i -= 1;
-      j -= 1;
-    } else if (i > 0 && (move === 1 || j === 0)) {
-      i -= 1;
-    } else if (j > 0 && (move === 2 || i === 0)) {
-      j -= 1;
-    } else {
-      break;
-    }
-  }
-
-  // Forward-fill, then backward-fill, so every wordIndex has a nearest known
-  // DOM token. This keeps the word highlight stable when whisper emits a
-  // word that didn't survive normalization (e.g. an apostrophe-only token).
-  let lastSeen = -1;
-  for (let k = 0; k < wordToToken.length; k += 1) {
-    if (wordToToken[k] !== -1) lastSeen = wordToToken[k];
-    else if (lastSeen !== -1) wordToToken[k] = lastSeen;
-  }
-  let nextSeen = -1;
-  for (let k = wordToToken.length - 1; k >= 0; k -= 1) {
-    if (wordToToken[k] !== -1) nextSeen = wordToToken[k];
-    else if (nextSeen !== -1) wordToToken[k] = nextSeen;
-  }
-
-  return wordToToken;
-}
-
 export function highlightHtmlWord(
   container: HTMLElement | null | undefined,
   alignment: TTSSentenceAlignment | undefined,
@@ -411,16 +266,20 @@ export function highlightHtmlWord(
   if (!words.length || wordIndex >= words.length) return false;
 
   // (Re)build the alignment map when this is a new alignment object.
-  if (sentenceState.alignment !== alignment || !sentenceState.wordToToken) {
+  if (sentenceState.alignment !== alignment || !sentenceState.wordToTokenRange) {
     sentenceState.alignment = alignment;
-    sentenceState.wordToToken = buildAlignmentMap(alignment, sentenceState.wordTokens);
+    sentenceState.wordToTokenRange = buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+      alignment.words,
+      sentenceState.wordTokens.map((token) => token.norm),
+      { fillGaps: true },
+    );
   }
 
-  const tokenIndex = sentenceState.wordToToken[wordIndex];
+  const tokenRange = sentenceState.wordToTokenRange[wordIndex];
-  if (tokenIndex === undefined || tokenIndex < 0) return false;
+  if (!tokenRange) return false;
-  if (tokenIndex >= sentenceState.wordTokens.length) return false;
+  if (tokenRange.start < 0 || tokenRange.end >= sentenceState.wordTokens.length) return false;
 
-  wordWraps = wrapTokenRange(sentenceState.wordTokens, tokenIndex, tokenIndex, HTML_WORD_CLASS);
+  wordWraps = wrapTokenRange(sentenceState.wordTokens, tokenRange.start, tokenRange.end, HTML_WORD_CLASS);
   return wordWraps.length > 0;
 }
 

src/lib/client/pdf-highlight-worker.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 /// <reference lib="webworker" />
 
-import { CmpStr } from 'cmpstr';
+import { findBestHighlightTokenMatch } from './highlight-token-alignment';
-
-const cmp = CmpStr.create().setMetric('dice').setFlags('itw');
 
 interface TokenMatchRequest {
   id: string;
   type: 'tokenMatch';
-  pattern: string;
+  patternTokens: string[];
   tokenTexts: string[];
 }
 
@@ -39,111 +37,16 @@ self.onmessage = (event: MessageEvent<TokenMatchRequest>) => {
   const data = event.data;
   if (!data || data.type !== 'tokenMatch') return;
 
-  const { id, pattern, tokenTexts } = data;
+  const { id, patternTokens, tokenTexts } = data;
-
+  const result = findBestHighlightTokenMatch(patternTokens, tokenTexts);
-  const cleanPattern = pattern.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
-  const patternLen = cleanPattern.length;
-
-  const responseBase: TokenMatchResponse = {
-    id,
-    type: 'tokenMatchResult',
-    bestStart: -1,
-    bestEnd: -1,
-    rating: 0,
-    lengthDiff: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
-  };
-
-  if (!patternLen || !tokenTexts.length) {
-    (self as unknown as DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope).postMessage(responseBase);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const patternTokens = cleanPattern.split(' ').filter(Boolean);
-  const patternTokenCount = patternTokens.length || 1;
-
-  const minWindowTokens = Math.max(1, Math.floor(patternTokenCount * 0.6));
-  const maxWindowTokens = Math.max(
-    minWindowTokens,
-    Math.ceil(patternTokenCount * 1.4)
-  );
-
-  let bestStart = -1;
-  let bestEnd = -1;
-  let bestRating = 0;
-  let bestLengthDiff = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;
-
-  for (let start = 0; start < tokenTexts.length; start++) {
-    let combined = '';
-
-    for (
-      let offset = 0;
-      offset < maxWindowTokens && start + offset < tokenTexts.length;
-      offset++
-    ) {
-      const token = tokenTexts[start + offset];
-      combined = combined ? `${combined} ${token}` : token;
-
-      const windowSize = offset + 1;
-      if (windowSize < minWindowTokens) continue;
-      if (combined.length > patternLen * 2) break;
-
-      const similarity = cmp.compare(combined, cleanPattern);
-      const lengthDiff = Math.abs(combined.length - patternLen);
-      const lengthPenalty = lengthDiff / patternLen;
-      const adjustedRating = similarity * (1 - lengthPenalty * 0.3);
-
-      // Prefix-alignment boost:
-      // Favour windows whose first few tokens closely match the beginning
-      // of the pattern, so we are less likely to cut off the first 1–2 words.
-      let boostedRating = adjustedRating;
-      if (patternTokens.length > 0) {
-        const windowTokens = tokenTexts.slice(start, start + windowSize);
-        const maxPrefixCheck = Math.min(
-          windowTokens.length,
-          patternTokens.length,
-          5
-        );
-
-        let prefixMatches = 0;
-        for (let i = 0; i < maxPrefixCheck; i++) {
-          const tokenText = windowTokens[i];
-          const patternToken = patternTokens[i];
-          // Require reasonably strong similarity for a prefix match
-          const tokenSim = cmp.compare(tokenText, patternToken);
-          if (tokenSim >= 0.8) {
-            prefixMatches++;
-          } else {
-            // Stop at the first non-matching leading token
-            break;
-          }
-        }
-
-        if (prefixMatches > 0) {
-          const prefixRatio = prefixMatches / maxPrefixCheck;
-          const PREFIX_BOOST_FACTOR = 0.25; // up to +25% boost
-          boostedRating = adjustedRating * (1 + prefixRatio * PREFIX_BOOST_FACTOR);
-        }
-      }
-
-      if (
-        boostedRating > bestRating ||
-        (Math.abs(boostedRating - bestRating) < 1e-3 &&
-          lengthDiff < bestLengthDiff)
-      ) {
-        bestRating = boostedRating;
-        bestLengthDiff = lengthDiff;
-        bestStart = start;
-        bestEnd = start + offset;
-      }
-    }
-  }
 
   const response: TokenMatchResponse = {
-    ...responseBase,
+    id,
-    bestStart,
+    type: 'tokenMatchResult',
-    bestEnd,
+    bestStart: result.start,
-    rating: bestRating,
+    bestEnd: result.end,
-    lengthDiff: bestLengthDiff,
+    rating: result.rating,
+    lengthDiff: result.lengthDiff,
   };
 
   (self as unknown as DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope).postMessage(response);

src/lib/client/pdf.ts

@@ -3,16 +3,18 @@ import { TextLayer } from 'pdfjs-dist';
 import "core-js/proposals/promise-with-resolvers";
 import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '@/types/tts';
 import type { ParsedPdfDocument, ParsedPdfPage } from '@/types/parsed-pdf';
-import { CmpStr } from 'cmpstr';
 import type { TTSSegmentLocator } from '@/types/client';
-
+import { segmentWords } from '@/lib/shared/language';
-const cmp = CmpStr.create().setMetric('dice').setFlags('itw');
+import {
+  buildAlignmentTokenRanges,
+  type HighlightTokenRange,
+} from '@/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment';
 
 // Worker coordination for offloading highlight token matching
 interface HighlightTokenMatchRequest {
   id: string;
   type: 'tokenMatch';
-  pattern: string;
+  patternTokens: string[];
   tokenTexts: string[];
 }
 
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ function getHighlightWorker(): Worker | null {
 }
 
 function runHighlightTokenMatch(
-  pattern: string,
+  patternTokens: string[],
   tokenTexts: string[]
 ): Promise<HighlightTokenMatchResponse | null> {
   const worker = getHighlightWorker();
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ function runHighlightTokenMatch(
     const message: HighlightTokenMatchRequest = {
       id,
       type: 'tokenMatch',
-      pattern,
+      patternTokens,
       tokenTexts,
     };
     worker.postMessage(message);
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ let lastSpanNodes: HTMLElement[] = [];
 let lastTokens: PDFToken[] = [];
 let lastSentenceTokenWindow: { start: number; end: number } | null = null;
 let lastSentencePattern: string | null = null;
-let lastSentenceWordToTokenMap: number[] | null = null;
+let lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap: Array<HighlightTokenRange | null> | null = null;
 
 function getOrCreateHighlightLayer(span: HTMLElement): {
   layer: HTMLElement;
@@ -180,12 +182,6 @@ function getOrCreateHighlightLayer(span: HTMLElement): {
   return { layer, pageElement, pageRect: pageElement.getBoundingClientRect() };
 }
 
-const normalizeWordForMatch = (text: string): string =>
-  text
-    .trim()
-    .replace(/^[^A-Za-z0-9]+|[^A-Za-z0-9]+$/g, '')
-    .toLowerCase();
-
 // Highlighting functions
 let highlightPatternSeq = 0;
 
@@ -193,6 +189,7 @@ type HighlightPatternOptions = {
   parsedDocument?: ParsedPdfDocument | null;
   locator?: TTSSegmentLocator | null;
   useBlockGeometryOnly?: boolean;
+  language?: string;
 };
 
 function getHighlightLayerForPage(pageElement: HTMLElement): {
@@ -422,7 +419,7 @@ export function highlightPattern(
   const cleanPattern = pattern.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
   if (!cleanPattern) return;
   lastSentencePattern = cleanPattern;
-  lastSentenceWordToTokenMap = null;
+  lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap = null;
   lastSentenceTokenWindow = null;
   const parsedDocument = options?.parsedDocument ?? null;
   const locator = options?.locator ?? null;
@@ -451,17 +448,13 @@ export function highlightPattern(
 
     const textNode = node as Text;
     const textContent = textNode.textContent || '';
-    const wordRegex = /\S+/g;
+    for (const token of segmentWords(textContent, options?.language)) {
-    let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
-
-    while ((match = wordRegex.exec(textContent)) !== null) {
-      const word = match[0];
       tokens.push({
         spanIndex,
         textNode,
-        text: word,
+        text: token.text,
-        startOffset: match.index,
+        startOffset: token.start,
-        endOffset: match.index + word.length,
+        endOffset: token.end,
       });
     }
   });
@@ -617,9 +610,10 @@ export function highlightPattern(
   };
 
   const tokenTexts = tokens.map((t) => t.text);
+  const patternTokens = segmentWords(cleanPattern, options?.language).map((token) => token.text);
 
   // Fire-and-forget async worker call; UI thread returns immediately
-  runHighlightTokenMatch(cleanPattern, tokenTexts)
+  runHighlightTokenMatch(patternTokens, tokenTexts)
     .then((result) => {
       if (seq !== highlightPatternSeq) return;
       if (!result || result.bestStart === -1) {
@@ -676,158 +670,61 @@ export function highlightWordIndex(
   const end = lastSentenceTokenWindow.end;
   if (end < start) return;
 
-  // Lazily build or refresh the mapping from alignment word
+  // Lazily build or refresh the shared mapping from alignment words to PDF
-  // indices to PDF token indices for this sentence window.
+  // token ranges for this sentence window.
   if (
-    !lastSentenceWordToTokenMap ||
+    !lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap ||
-    lastSentenceWordToTokenMap.length !== words.length
+    lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap.length !== words.length
   ) {
-    const pdfFiltered: { tokenIndex: number; norm: string }[] = [];
+    const relativeRanges = buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
-    for (let i = start; i <= end; i++) {
+      words,
-      const norm = normalizeWordForMatch(lastTokens[i].text);
+      lastTokens.slice(start, end + 1).map((token) => token.text),
-      if (!norm) continue;
+      { fillGaps: true },
-      pdfFiltered.push({ tokenIndex: i, norm });
+    );
-    }
+    lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap = relativeRanges.map((range) => (
-
+      range ? { start: range.start + start, end: range.end + start } : null
-    const ttsFiltered: { wordIndex: number; norm: string }[] = [];
+    ));
-    for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
-      const norm = normalizeWordForMatch(words[i].text);
-      if (!norm) continue;
-      ttsFiltered.push({ wordIndex: i, norm });
-    }
-
-    const wordToToken = new Array<number>(words.length).fill(-1);
-
-    const m = pdfFiltered.length;
-    const n = ttsFiltered.length;
-
-    if (m && n) {
-      const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
-        new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
-      );
-      const bt: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () =>
-        new Array<number>(n + 1).fill(0)
-      ); // 0=diag,1=up,2=left
-
-      dp[0][0] = 0;
-      const GAP_COST = 0.7;
-
-      for (let i = 0; i <= m; i++) {
-        for (let j = 0; j <= n; j++) {
-          if (i > 0 && j > 0) {
-            const a = pdfFiltered[i - 1].norm;
-            const b = ttsFiltered[j - 1].norm;
-            const sim = cmp.compare(a, b);
-            const subCost = 1 - sim;
-            const cand = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + subCost;
-            if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-              dp[i][j] = cand;
-              bt[i][j] = 0;
-            }
-          }
-          if (i > 0) {
-            const cand = dp[i - 1][j] + GAP_COST;
-            if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-              dp[i][j] = cand;
-              bt[i][j] = 1;
-            }
-          }
-          if (j > 0) {
-            const cand = dp[i][j - 1] + GAP_COST;
-            if (cand < dp[i][j]) {
-              dp[i][j] = cand;
-              bt[i][j] = 2;
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-
-      let i = m;
-      let j = n;
-      while (i > 0 || j > 0) {
-        const move = bt[i][j];
-        if (i > 0 && j > 0 && move === 0) {
-          const pdfIdx = pdfFiltered[i - 1].tokenIndex;
-          const ttsIdx = ttsFiltered[j - 1].wordIndex;
-          if (wordToToken[ttsIdx] === -1) {
-            wordToToken[ttsIdx] = pdfIdx;
-          }
-          i -= 1;
-          j -= 1;
-        } else if (i > 0 && (move === 1 || j === 0)) {
-          i -= 1;
-        } else if (j > 0 && (move === 2 || i === 0)) {
-          j -= 1;
-        } else {
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-
-      // Propagate nearest known mapping to fill gaps
-      let lastSeen = -1;
-      for (let k = 0; k < wordToToken.length; k++) {
-        if (wordToToken[k] !== -1) {
-          lastSeen = wordToToken[k];
-        } else if (lastSeen !== -1) {
-          wordToToken[k] = lastSeen;
-        }
-      }
-      let nextSeen = -1;
-      for (let k = wordToToken.length - 1; k >= 0; k--) {
-        if (wordToToken[k] !== -1) {
-          nextSeen = wordToToken[k];
-        } else if (nextSeen !== -1) {
-          wordToToken[k] = nextSeen;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    lastSentenceWordToTokenMap = wordToToken;
   }
 
-  const mappedIndex =
+  const tokenRange = lastSentenceWordToTokenRangeMap[wordIndex];
-    lastSentenceWordToTokenMap && wordIndex < lastSentenceWordToTokenMap.length
+  if (!tokenRange) return;
-      ? lastSentenceWordToTokenMap[wordIndex]
-      : -1;
 
-  if (mappedIndex === -1) return;
+  for (let tokenIndex = tokenRange.start; tokenIndex <= tokenRange.end; tokenIndex += 1) {
+    const token = lastTokens[tokenIndex];
+    const span = lastSpanNodes[token.spanIndex];
+    if (!span) continue;
 
-  const chosenTokenIndex = mappedIndex;
+    const node = token.textNode;
+    if (!node || node.nodeType !== Node.TEXT_NODE) continue;
 
-  const token = lastTokens[chosenTokenIndex];
+    try {
-  const span = lastSpanNodes[token.spanIndex];
+      const range = document.createRange();
-  if (!span) return;
+      range.setStart(node, token.startOffset);
+      range.setEnd(node, token.endOffset);
 
-  const node = token.textNode;
+      const highlightTarget = getOrCreateHighlightLayer(span);
-  if (!node || node.nodeType !== Node.TEXT_NODE) return;
+      if (!highlightTarget) continue;
 
-  try {
+      const { layer: highlightLayer, pageRect } = highlightTarget;
-    const range = document.createRange();
+      const rects = Array.from(range.getClientRects());
-    range.setStart(node, token.startOffset);
-    range.setEnd(node, token.endOffset);
 
-    const highlightTarget = getOrCreateHighlightLayer(span);
+      rects.forEach((rect) => {
-    if (!highlightTarget) return;
+        const highlight = document.createElement('div');
-
+        highlight.className = 'pdf-word-highlight-overlay';
-    const { layer: highlightLayer, pageRect } = highlightTarget;
+        highlight.style.position = 'absolute';
-    const rects = Array.from(range.getClientRects());
+        highlight.style.backgroundColor = 'var(--accent)';
-
+        highlight.style.opacity = '0.4';
-    rects.forEach((rect) => {
+        highlight.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
-      const highlight = document.createElement('div');
+        highlight.style.left = `${rect.left - pageRect.left}px`;
-      highlight.className = 'pdf-word-highlight-overlay';
+        highlight.style.top = `${rect.top - pageRect.top}px`;
-      highlight.style.position = 'absolute';
+        highlight.style.width = `${rect.width}px`;
-      highlight.style.backgroundColor = 'var(--accent)';
+        highlight.style.height = `${rect.height}px`;
-      highlight.style.opacity = '0.4';
+        highlight.style.zIndex = '2';
-      highlight.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
+        highlightLayer.appendChild(highlight);
-      highlight.style.left = `${rect.left - pageRect.left}px`;
+      });
-      highlight.style.top = `${rect.top - pageRect.top}px`;
+    } catch {
-      highlight.style.width = `${rect.width}px`;
+      // Ignore range errors
-      highlight.style.height = `${rect.height}px`;
+    }
-      highlight.style.zIndex = '2';
-      highlightLayer.appendChild(highlight);
-    });
-  } catch {
-    // Ignore range errors
   }
 }
 

src/lib/server/audiobooks/settings.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import type { AudiobookGenerationSettings } from '@/types/client';
 import type { TTSAudiobookFormat } from '@/types/tts';
 import { resolveEffectiveTtsInstructions } from '@/lib/server/admin/tts-instructions';
 import { resolvePreferredSharedProviderSlug } from '@/lib/shared/shared-provider-selection';
+import { normalizeLanguageTag } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 function isAudiobookFormat(value: unknown): value is TTSAudiobookFormat {
   return value === 'mp3' || value === 'm4b';
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ export function coerceAudiobookGenerationSettings(
     postSpeed,
     format,
     ...(typeof record.ttsInstructions === 'string' ? { ttsInstructions: record.ttsInstructions } : {}),
+    ...(typeof record.language === 'string' ? { language: normalizeLanguageTag(record.language) } : {}),
   };
 
   const migrated =

src/lib/server/tts/generate.ts

@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ import {
   REPLICATE_KOKORO_82M_VERSIONED_MODEL,
 } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
 import { resolveTtsProviderModelPolicy } from '@/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
-import { resolveReplicateVoiceInputKey } from '@/lib/server/tts/voice-resolution';
+import {
+  resolveReplicateLanguageInput,
+  resolveReplicateVoiceInputKey,
+} from '@/lib/server/tts/voice-resolution';
 import { getUpstreamRetryAfterSeconds, getUpstreamStatus } from '@/lib/server/tts/upstream-response';
 import { LRUCache } from 'lru-cache';
 import { createHash } from 'crypto';
 import { access, readFile } from 'fs/promises';
 import { resolve } from 'path';
+import { getLanguageDisplayName, toBaseLanguageCode } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 export interface ServerTTSRequest {
   text: string;
@@ -20,6 +24,7 @@ export interface ServerTTSRequest {
   format?: string;
   model?: string | null;
   instructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
   provider: string;
   apiKey: string;
   baseUrl?: string;
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ type CustomVoice = string;
 type ExtendedSpeechParams = Omit<SpeechCreateParams, 'voice'> & {
   voice: SpeechCreateParams['voice'] | CustomVoice;
   instructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
 };
 
 type ResolvedServerTTSRequest = {
@@ -39,6 +45,7 @@ type ResolvedServerTTSRequest = {
   format: string;
   model: SpeechCreateParams['model'];
   instructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
   provider: string;
   apiKey: string;
   baseUrl?: string;
@@ -55,6 +62,7 @@ const REPLICATE_COOLDOWN_SCOPE_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES = 512;
 const replicateBlockedUntilByScope = new LRUCache<string, number>({
   max: REPLICATE_COOLDOWN_SCOPE_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES,
 });
+const openAiCompatibleLanguageUnsupported = new LRUCache<string, true>({ max: 256 });
 
 const DEFAULT_TTS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE_BYTES = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
 const DEFAULT_TTS_CACHE_TTL_MS = 1000 * 60 * 30;
@@ -323,6 +331,7 @@ function resolveTTSRequest(input: ServerTTSRequest): ResolvedServerTTSRequest {
     format,
     model,
     instructions,
+    language: input.language,
     provider,
     apiKey: input.apiKey,
     baseUrl: input.baseUrl,
@@ -338,6 +347,7 @@ function makeCacheKey(input: {
   format: string;
   text: string;
   instructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
   testNamespace?: string | null;
 }) {
   const canonical = {
@@ -348,6 +358,7 @@ function makeCacheKey(input: {
     format: input.format,
     text: input.text,
     instructions: input.instructions || undefined,
+    language: input.language || undefined,
     testNamespace: input.testNamespace || undefined,
   };
   return createHash('sha256').update(JSON.stringify(canonical)).digest('hex');
@@ -363,6 +374,7 @@ export function buildTTSCacheKey(request: ServerTTSRequest): string {
     format: resolved.format,
     text: resolved.text,
     instructions: resolved.instructions,
+    language: resolved.language,
     testNamespace: resolved.testNamespace,
   });
 }
@@ -433,7 +445,7 @@ async function buildReplicateInput(request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest): Promise<R
     if (request.instructions) {
       input.prompt = request.instructions;
     }
-    return input;
+    return addReplicateLanguageInput(input, request);
   }
 
   if (model === 'minimax/speech-2.8-turbo') {
@@ -445,7 +457,7 @@ async function buildReplicateInput(request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest): Promise<R
     if (request.speed !== 1) {
       input.speed = Math.max(0.5, Math.min(2.0, request.speed));
     }
-    return input;
+    return addReplicateLanguageInput(input, request);
   }
 
   if (model === 'qwen/qwen3-tts') {
@@ -457,7 +469,7 @@ async function buildReplicateInput(request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest): Promise<R
     if (request.instructions) {
       input.style_instruction = request.instructions;
     }
-    return input;
+    return addReplicateLanguageInput(input, request);
   }
 
   if (model === 'inworld/tts-1.5-mini') {
@@ -469,7 +481,7 @@ async function buildReplicateInput(request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest): Promise<R
     if (request.speed !== 1) {
       input.speaking_rate = request.speed;
     }
-    return input;
+    return addReplicateLanguageInput(input, request);
   }
 
   const input: Record<string, unknown> = { text: request.text };
@@ -498,9 +510,46 @@ async function buildReplicateInput(request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest): Promise<R
     input.instructions = request.instructions;
   }
 
+  return addReplicateLanguageInput(input, request);
+}
+
+async function addReplicateLanguageInput(
+  input: Record<string, unknown>,
+  request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest,
+): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
+  if (!request.language) return input;
+  const languageInput = await resolveReplicateLanguageInput({
+    provider: 'replicate',
+    model: request.model as string,
+    apiKey: request.apiKey,
+  });
+  if (languageInput) {
+    const resolvedValue = resolveReplicateLanguageValue(request.language, languageInput.allowedValues);
+    if (resolvedValue) {
+      input[languageInput.key] = resolvedValue;
+    }
+  }
   return input;
 }
 
+export function resolveReplicateLanguageValue(language: string, allowedValues: string[]): string | null {
+  if (allowedValues.length === 0) return language;
+
+  const baseLanguage = toBaseLanguageCode(language);
+  const candidates = [
+    language,
+    baseLanguage,
+    getLanguageDisplayName(language),
+    getLanguageDisplayName(baseLanguage),
+  ];
+  const allowedByLowercase = new Map(
+    allowedValues.map((value) => [value.toLocaleLowerCase(), value]),
+  );
+  return candidates
+    .map((candidate) => allowedByLowercase.get(candidate.toLocaleLowerCase()))
+    .find((candidate): candidate is string => Boolean(candidate)) ?? null;
+}
+
 async function runReplicateRequest(
   request: ResolvedServerTTSRequest,
   signal: AbortSignal,
@@ -594,6 +643,31 @@ async function runProviderRequest(
     createParams.instructions = request.instructions;
   }
 
+  if (request.provider !== 'openai' && request.language) {
+    const supportKey = `${request.provider}|${request.baseUrl || ''}|${request.model as string}|${request.language}`;
+    if (!openAiCompatibleLanguageUnsupported.has(supportKey)) {
+      try {
+        return await fetchTTSBufferWithRetry(
+          openai,
+          { ...createParams, language: request.language },
+          signal,
+          upstreamSettings.ttsUpstreamMaxRetries,
+        );
+      } catch (error) {
+        const status = getUpstreamStatus(error);
+        if (status !== 400 && status !== 422) throw error;
+        const fallback = await fetchTTSBufferWithRetry(
+          openai,
+          createParams,
+          signal,
+          upstreamSettings.ttsUpstreamMaxRetries,
+        );
+        openAiCompatibleLanguageUnsupported.set(supportKey, true);
+        return fallback;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   return fetchTTSBufferWithRetry(openai, createParams, signal, upstreamSettings.ttsUpstreamMaxRetries);
 }
 
@@ -614,6 +688,7 @@ export async function generateTTSBuffer(
     format: resolved.format,
     text: resolved.text,
     instructions: resolved.instructions,
+    language: resolved.language,
     testNamespace: resolved.testNamespace,
   });
 

src/lib/server/tts/segments.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { mkdtemp, rm, writeFile } from 'fs/promises';
 import { join } from 'path';
 import { tmpdir } from 'os';
 import { preprocessSentenceForAudio } from '@/lib/shared/nlp';
+import { normalizeUnicodeToken, segmentWords } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 import { locatorIdentityKey } from '@/lib/shared/tts-locator';
 import { ffprobeAudio } from '@/lib/server/audiobooks/chapters';
 import type {
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ function settingsCanonical(settings: TTSSegmentSettings): string {
     voice: settings.voice,
     speed: Number.isFinite(Number(settings.nativeSpeed)) ? Number(settings.nativeSpeed) : 1,
     instructions: settings.ttsInstructions || '',
+    language: settings.language || 'en',
     format: 'mp3',
   });
 }
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ export function buildTtsSegmentSettingsJson(settings: TTSSegmentSettings): TTSSe
     voice: settings.voice,
     nativeSpeed: Number.isFinite(Number(settings.nativeSpeed)) ? Number(settings.nativeSpeed) : 1,
     ttsInstructions: settings.ttsInstructions || '',
+    language: settings.language || 'en',
   };
   // Postgres jsonb accepts the object directly; SQLite text needs a canonical JSON string.
   return process.env.POSTGRES_URL ? canonical : settingsCanonical(settings);
@@ -242,35 +245,24 @@ export async function probeAudioDurationMsFromBuffer(buffer: Buffer, signal?: Ab
   }
 }
 
-function alignWordsToText(sentence: string): Array<{ text: string; charStart: number; charEnd: number }> {
+function alignWordsToText(
-  const words = sentence.match(/\S+/g) || [];
+  sentence: string,
-  const aligned: Array<{ text: string; charStart: number; charEnd: number }> = [];
+  language?: string,
-  let cursor = 0;
+): Array<{ text: string; charStart: number; charEnd: number }> {
-  const lowerSentence = sentence.toLowerCase();
+  return segmentWords(sentence, language).map((token) => ({
-
+    text: token.text,
-  for (const token of words) {
+    charStart: token.start,
-    const clean = token.trim();
+    charEnd: token.end,
-    if (!clean) continue;
+  }));
-    const idx = lowerSentence.indexOf(clean.toLowerCase(), cursor);
-    const start = idx >= 0 ? idx : cursor;
-    const end = Math.min(sentence.length, start + clean.length);
-    cursor = Math.max(cursor, end);
-    aligned.push({
-      text: clean,
-      charStart: start,
-      charEnd: end,
-    });
-  }
-
-  return aligned;
 }
 
 export function buildProportionalAlignment(input: {
   sentence: string;
   sentenceIndex: number;
   durationMs: number;
+  language?: string;
 }): TTSSentenceAlignment {
-  const wordsWithOffsets = alignWordsToText(input.sentence);
+  const wordsWithOffsets = alignWordsToText(input.sentence, input.language);
   if (wordsWithOffsets.length === 0 || input.durationMs <= 0) {
     return {
       sentence: input.sentence,
@@ -281,7 +273,7 @@ export function buildProportionalAlignment(input: {
 
   const weighted = wordsWithOffsets.map((word) => ({
     ...word,
-    weight: Math.max(1, word.text.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '').length),
+    weight: Math.max(1, normalizeUnicodeToken(word.text).length),
   }));
   const totalWeight = weighted.reduce((sum, word) => sum + word.weight, 0);
 

src/lib/server/tts/voice-resolution.ts

@@ -102,6 +102,19 @@ function walkRecordGraph(root: unknown, visit: (node: Record<string, unknown>) =
 }
 
 const REPLICATE_VOICE_KEYS = ['voice', 'voice_id', 'speaker'] as const satisfies readonly ReplicateVoiceInputKey[];
+const REPLICATE_LANGUAGE_KEYS = [
+  'language',
+  'lang',
+  'language_code',
+  'locale',
+  'language_id',
+  'language_boost',
+] as const;
+export type ReplicateLanguageInputKey = typeof REPLICATE_LANGUAGE_KEYS[number];
+export type ReplicateLanguageInput = {
+  key: ReplicateLanguageInputKey;
+  allowedValues: string[];
+};
 const REPLICATE_BUILT_IN_MODELS = new Set(
   resolveProviderModels('replicate')
     .map((model) => model.id)
@@ -150,6 +163,26 @@ function extractReplicateVoiceInputKeyFromOpenApiSchema(openApiSchema: unknown):
   return found;
 }
 
+function extractReplicateLanguageInputFromOpenApiSchema(openApiSchema: unknown): ReplicateLanguageInput | null {
+  let found: ReplicateLanguageInput | null = null;
+
+  walkRecordGraph(openApiSchema, (node) => {
+    const properties = node.properties;
+    if (!isRecord(properties)) return;
+    for (const key of REPLICATE_LANGUAGE_KEYS) {
+      if (key in properties) {
+        found = {
+          key,
+          allowedValues: extractSchemaStringEnums(properties[key]),
+        };
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  return found;
+}
+
 async function fetchReplicateOpenApiSchema(apiKey: string, model: string): Promise<unknown | null> {
   const parsedModel = parseReplicateModelIdentifier(model);
   if (!parsedModel) {
@@ -207,11 +240,15 @@ async function fetchReplicateOpenApiSchema(apiKey: string, model: string): Promi
 }
 
 const REPLICATE_VOICE_INPUT_KEY_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES = 128;
+const REPLICATE_LANGUAGE_INPUT_KEY_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES = 128;
 const REPLICATE_OPENAPI_SCHEMA_PROMISE_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES = 128;
 
 const replicateVoiceInputKeyCache = new LRUCache<string, ReplicateVoiceInputKey>({
   max: REPLICATE_VOICE_INPUT_KEY_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES,
 });
+const replicateLanguageInputCache = new LRUCache<string, ReplicateLanguageInput>({
+  max: REPLICATE_LANGUAGE_INPUT_KEY_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES,
+});
 const replicateOpenApiSchemaPromiseCache = new LRUCache<string, Promise<unknown | null>>({
   max: REPLICATE_OPENAPI_SCHEMA_PROMISE_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES,
 });
@@ -260,6 +297,33 @@ export async function resolveReplicateVoiceInputKey({
   return inputKey;
 }
 
+export async function resolveReplicateLanguageInputKey({
+  provider,
+  model,
+  apiKey = '',
+}: ResolveVoicesOptions): Promise<ReplicateLanguageInputKey | null> {
+  const input = await resolveReplicateLanguageInput({ provider, model, apiKey });
+  return input?.key ?? null;
+}
+
+export async function resolveReplicateLanguageInput({
+  provider,
+  model,
+  apiKey = '',
+}: ResolveVoicesOptions): Promise<ReplicateLanguageInput | null> {
+  if (provider !== 'replicate' || REPLICATE_BUILT_IN_MODELS.has(model) || !apiKey) return null;
+
+  const cached = replicateLanguageInputCache.get(model);
+  if (cached) return cached;
+
+  const openApiSchema = await getReplicateOpenApiSchemaCached(apiKey, model);
+  const input = extractReplicateLanguageInputFromOpenApiSchema(openApiSchema);
+  if (input) {
+    replicateLanguageInputCache.set(model, input);
+  }
+  return input;
+}
+
 async function fetchDeepinfraVoices(apiKey: string): Promise<string[]> {
   const controller = new AbortController();
   const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {

src/lib/shared/document-settings.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import {
   type DocumentSettings,
 } from '@/types/document-settings';
 import { PARSED_PDF_BLOCK_KINDS, type ParsedPdfBlockKind } from '@/types/parsed-pdf';
+import { normalizeLanguageTag } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 function normalizeSkipKinds(value: unknown): ParsedPdfBlockKind[] {
   if (!Array.isArray(value)) return [...(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS.pdf?.skipBlockKinds ?? [])];
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ export function mergeDocumentSettings(
 ): DocumentSettings {
   const base: DocumentSettings = {
     schemaVersion: 1,
+    language: defaults.language || 'auto',
     pdf: {
       skipBlockKinds: [...(defaults.pdf?.skipBlockKinds ?? [])],
     },
@@ -29,12 +31,17 @@ export function mergeDocumentSettings(
 
   if (!stored || typeof stored !== 'object') return base;
   const rec = stored as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const rawLanguage = typeof rec.language === 'string' ? rec.language.trim() : '';
+  const language = !rawLanguage || rawLanguage.toLowerCase() === 'auto'
+    ? 'auto'
+    : normalizeLanguageTag(rawLanguage, defaults.language || 'en');
   const pdf = rec.pdf;
-  if (!pdf || typeof pdf !== 'object') return base;
+  if (!pdf || typeof pdf !== 'object') return { ...base, language };
   const pdfRec = pdf as Record<string, unknown>;
 
   return {
     schemaVersion: 1,
+    language,
     pdf: {
       skipBlockKinds: normalizeSkipKinds(pdfRec.skipBlockKinds),
     },

src/lib/shared/language.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+import { isKokoroModel } from '@/lib/shared/kokoro';
+
+export const DEFAULT_TTS_LANGUAGE = 'en';
+
+export interface TextToken {
+  text: string;
+  start: number;
+  end: number;
+}
+
+const KOKORO_LANGUAGE_BY_PREFIX: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
+  af: 'en-US',
+  am: 'en-US',
+  bf: 'en-GB',
+  bm: 'en-GB',
+  ef: 'es',
+  em: 'es',
+  ff: 'fr',
+  hf: 'hi',
+  hm: 'hi',
+  if: 'it',
+  im: 'it',
+  jf: 'ja',
+  jm: 'ja',
+  pf: 'pt-BR',
+  pm: 'pt-BR',
+  zf: 'zh-CN',
+  zm: 'zh-CN',
+};
+
+export const KOKORO_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES = [
+  'en',
+  'es',
+  'fr',
+  'hi',
+  'it',
+  'ja',
+  'pt-BR',
+  'zh-CN',
+] as const;
+
+export function normalizeLanguageTag(
+  language: string | null | undefined,
+  fallback = DEFAULT_TTS_LANGUAGE,
+): string {
+  const candidate = language?.trim();
+  if (!candidate || candidate.toLowerCase() === 'auto') return fallback;
+
+  try {
+    return Intl.getCanonicalLocales(candidate)[0] ?? fallback;
+  } catch {
+    return fallback;
+  }
+}
+
+export function normalizeOptionalLanguageTag(language: unknown): string | null {
+  if (typeof language !== 'string') return null;
+  const candidate = language.trim().split(/[,\s]+/u)[0];
+  if (!candidate) return null;
+  try {
+    return Intl.getCanonicalLocales(candidate)[0] ?? null;
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+export function toBaseLanguageCode(language: string | null | undefined): string {
+  const normalized = normalizeLanguageTag(language);
+  try {
+    return new Intl.Locale(normalized).language;
+  } catch {
+    return normalized.split('-')[0]?.toLowerCase() || DEFAULT_TTS_LANGUAGE;
+  }
+}
+
+export function inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice(voice: string | null | undefined): string | null {
+  const languages = new Set(getKokoroVoiceLanguages(voice));
+
+  return languages.size === 1 ? [...languages][0] : null;
+}
+
+export function getKokoroVoiceLanguages(voice: string | null | undefined): string[] {
+  if (!voice?.trim()) return [];
+  return Array.from(new Set(
+    voice
+      .split('+')
+      .map((part) => part.trim().replace(/\([^)]*\)/g, ''))
+      .map((name) => KOKORO_LANGUAGE_BY_PREFIX[name.slice(0, 2).toLowerCase()])
+      .filter((language): language is string => Boolean(language)),
+  ));
+}
+
+export function keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(
+  voices: string[],
+  preferredVoice?: string | null,
+): string[] {
+  const preferredLanguage = getKokoroVoiceLanguages(preferredVoice)[0]
+    ?? voices.flatMap((voice) => getKokoroVoiceLanguages(voice))[0];
+  if (!preferredLanguage) return voices;
+
+  const preferredBaseLanguage = toBaseLanguageCode(preferredLanguage);
+  return voices.filter((voice) => {
+    const voiceLanguage = getKokoroVoiceLanguages(voice)[0];
+    return !voiceLanguage || toBaseLanguageCode(voiceLanguage) === preferredBaseLanguage;
+  });
+}
+
+export function resolveTtsLanguage(input: {
+  configuredLanguage?: string | null;
+  voice?: string | null;
+}): string {
+  const configured = input.configuredLanguage?.trim();
+  if (configured && configured.toLowerCase() !== 'auto') {
+    return normalizeLanguageTag(configured);
+  }
+
+  return inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice(input.voice) ?? DEFAULT_TTS_LANGUAGE;
+}
+
+export function getLanguageDisplayName(language: string): string {
+  try {
+    return new Intl.DisplayNames(['en'], { type: 'language' }).of(language) || language;
+  } catch {
+    return language;
+  }
+}
+
+export function getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings(input: {
+  model?: string | null;
+  voice?: string | null;
+  documentLanguage?: string | null;
+}): string[] {
+  if (!isKokoroModel(input.model || '')) return [];
+
+  const documentLanguage = normalizeLanguageTag(input.documentLanguage);
+  const documentBaseLanguage = toBaseLanguageCode(documentLanguage);
+  const supportedBaseLanguages = new Set(KOKORO_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.map((language) => toBaseLanguageCode(language)));
+  const voiceLanguages = getKokoroVoiceLanguages(input.voice);
+  const voiceBaseLanguages = new Set(voiceLanguages.map((language) => toBaseLanguageCode(language)));
+  const warnings: string[] = [];
+
+  if (!supportedBaseLanguages.has(documentBaseLanguage)) {
+    warnings.push(
+      `Kokoro's built-in voice catalog does not include ${getLanguageDisplayName(documentLanguage)}.`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  const voiceLanguage = voiceBaseLanguages.size === 1 ? voiceLanguages[0] : undefined;
+  if (voiceLanguage && toBaseLanguageCode(voiceLanguage) !== documentBaseLanguage) {
+    warnings.push(
+      `Selected Kokoro voice is ${getLanguageDisplayName(voiceLanguage)}, but the document is ${getLanguageDisplayName(documentLanguage)}.`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return warnings;
+}
+
+export function normalizeUnicodeToken(text: string): string {
+  return text
+    .normalize('NFKC')
+    .toLocaleLowerCase()
+    .replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]+/gu, '');
+}
+
+export function segmentSentences(text: string, language?: string | null): string[] {
+  const normalizedLanguage = normalizeLanguageTag(language);
+  try {
+    return [...new Intl.Segmenter(normalizedLanguage, { granularity: 'sentence' }).segment(text)]
+      .map(({ segment }) => segment.trim())
+      .filter(Boolean);
+  } catch {
+    return text.split(/(?<=[.!?。！？؟।])\s*/u).map((segment) => segment.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+  }
+}
+
+export function segmentWords(text: string, language?: string | null): TextToken[] {
+  const normalizedLanguage = normalizeLanguageTag(language);
+  try {
+    return [...new Intl.Segmenter(normalizedLanguage, { granularity: 'word' }).segment(text)]
+      .filter((segment) => segment.isWordLike)
+      .map((segment) => ({
+        text: segment.segment,
+        start: segment.index,
+        end: segment.index + segment.segment.length,
+      }));
+  } catch {
+    const tokens: TextToken[] = [];
+    const wordRegex = /\S+/gu;
+    let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
+    while ((match = wordRegex.exec(text)) !== null) {
+      tokens.push({
+        text: match[0],
+        start: match.index,
+        end: match.index + match[0].length,
+      });
+    }
+    return tokens;
+  }
+}

src/lib/shared/nlp.ts

@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
  * It handles text preprocessing, sentence splitting, and block creation for optimal TTS processing.
  */
 
-import nlp from 'compromise';
+import { normalizeLanguageTag, segmentSentences, toBaseLanguageCode } from '@/lib/shared/language';
 
 export const MAX_BLOCK_LENGTH = 450;
 const MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH = 50;
 
 export interface TtsSplitOptions {
   maxBlockLength?: number;
+  language?: string;
 }
 
 function resolveMaxBlockLength(options?: TtsSplitOptions): number {
@@ -27,9 +28,9 @@ const splitOversizedText = (text: string, maxLen: number): string[] => {
 
   const parts: string[] = [];
   const MAX_OVERFLOW = maxLen; // allow finishing the sentence up to +maxLen chars
-  const CLOSERS = new Set(['"', "'", '”', '’', ')', ']', '}']);
+  const CLOSERS = new Set(['"', "'", '”', '’', ')', ']', '}', '」', '』', '】']);
-  const BREAK_CHARS = new Set(['.', '!', '?']);
+  const BREAK_CHARS = new Set(['.', '!', '?', '。', '！', '？', '؟', '।']);
-  const SOFT_BREAK_CHARS = new Set([';', ':']);
+  const SOFT_BREAK_CHARS = new Set([';', ':', '；', '：']);
 
   const findPunctuationCut = (s: string, limit: number): number | null => {
     for (let i = limit; i >= 0; i--) {
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ const splitOversizedText = (text: string, maxLen: number): string[] => {
 
       // Allow a boundary at end/whitespace, or common PDF artifact where
       // the next sentence starts immediately with an uppercase letter.
-      if (!after || /\s/.test(after) || /[A-Z]/.test(after)) return end;
+      if (!after || /\s/u.test(after) || /\p{Lu}/u.test(after)) return end;
     }
     return null;
   };
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ const splitOversizedText = (text: string, maxLen: number): string[] => {
       while (cut < s.length && CLOSERS.has(s[cut])) cut++;
       const after = cut < s.length ? s[cut] : '';
 
-      if (!after || /\s/.test(after) || /[A-Z]/.test(after)) return cut;
+      if (!after || /\s/u.test(after) || /\p{Lu}/u.test(after)) return cut;
     }
     return null;
   };
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ const splitOversizedText = (text: string, maxLen: number): string[] => {
       let end = i + 1;
       while (end < s.length && CLOSERS.has(s[end])) end++;
       const after = end < s.length ? s[end] : '';
-      if (!after || /\s/.test(after) || /[A-Z]/.test(after)) return end;
+      if (!after || /\s/u.test(after) || /\p{Lu}/u.test(after)) return end;
     }
     return null;
   };
@@ -123,8 +124,8 @@ const normalizeSentenceBoundariesForNlp = (text: string): string => {
   // Insert a space only when it looks like a sentence boundary (lower/digit before,
   // uppercase after) to avoid breaking abbreviations like "U.S.A".
   return text
-    .replace(/([a-z0-9])([.!?])(?=[A-Z])/g, '$1$2 ')
+    .replace(/([\p{Ll}\p{N}])([.!?])(?=\p{Lu})/gu, '$1$2 ')
-    .replace(/([a-z0-9][.!?][\"”’)\]])(?=[A-Z])/g, '$1 ');
+    .replace(/([\p{Ll}\p{N}][.!?]["”’)\]])(?=\p{Lu})/gu, '$1 ');
 };
 
 /**
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ const normalizeSentenceBoundariesForNlp = (text: string): string => {
 export const preprocessSentenceForAudio = (text: string): string => {
   return text
     .replace(/\S*(?:https?:\/\/|www\.)([^\/\s]+)(?:\/\S*)?/gi, '- (link to $1) -')
-    .replace(/(\w+)-\s+(\w+)/g, '$1$2') // Remove hyphenation
+    .replace(/([\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]+)-\s+([\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]+)/gu, '$1$2') // Remove hyphenation
     // Remove special character *
     .replace(/\*/g, '')
     .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
@@ -151,6 +152,8 @@ export const preprocessSentenceForAudio = (text: string): string => {
  */
 export const splitTextToTtsBlocks = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): string[] => {
   const maxBlockLength = resolveMaxBlockLength(options);
+  const language = normalizeLanguageTag(options?.language);
+  const blockSeparator = ['ja', 'zh'].includes(toBaseLanguageCode(language)) ? '' : ' ';
   // Treat double-newlines as paragraph boundaries; single newlines are usually
   // just PDF line wrapping and should not force sentence/block boundaries.
   const paragraphs = text.split(/\n{2,}/);
@@ -162,8 +165,7 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocks = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): s
     const cleanedText = normalizeSentenceBoundariesForNlp(
       preprocessSentenceForAudio(paragraph)
     );
-    const doc = nlp(cleanedText);
+    const rawSentences = segmentSentences(cleanedText, language);
-    const rawSentences = doc.sentences().out('array') as string[];
     
     // Merge multi-sentence dialogue enclosed in quotes into single items
     const mergedSentences = mergeQuotedDialogue(rawSentences);
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocks = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): s
           currentBlock = sentencePart;
         } else {
           currentBlock = currentBlock
-            ? `${currentBlock} ${sentencePart}`
+            ? `${currentBlock}${blockSeparator}${sentencePart}`
             : sentencePart;
         }
       }
@@ -200,6 +202,8 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocks = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): s
  */
 export const splitTextToTtsBlocksEPUB = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): string[] => {
   const maxBlockLength = resolveMaxBlockLength(options);
+  const language = normalizeLanguageTag(options?.language);
+  const blockSeparator = ['ja', 'zh'].includes(toBaseLanguageCode(language)) ? '' : ' ';
   const paragraphs = text.split(/\n+/);
   const blocks: string[] = [];
 
@@ -207,8 +211,7 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocksEPUB = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions
     if (!paragraph.trim()) continue;
 
     const cleanedText = preprocessSentenceForAudio(paragraph);
-    const doc = nlp(cleanedText);
+    const rawSentences = segmentSentences(cleanedText, language);
-    const rawSentences = doc.sentences().out('array') as string[];
 
     const mergedSentences = mergeQuotedDialogue(rawSentences);
 
@@ -227,7 +230,7 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocksEPUB = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions
           currentBlock = sentencePart;
         } else {
           currentBlock = currentBlock
-            ? `${currentBlock} ${sentencePart}`
+            ? `${currentBlock}${blockSeparator}${sentencePart}`
             : sentencePart;
         }
       }
@@ -248,8 +251,11 @@ export const splitTextToTtsBlocksEPUB = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions
  * @param {string} text - The text to process
  * @returns {string} Normalized text
  */
-export const normalizeTextForTts = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): string =>
+export const normalizeTextForTts = (text: string, options?: TtsSplitOptions): string => {
-  splitTextToTtsBlocks(text, options).join(' ');
+  const language = normalizeLanguageTag(options?.language);
+  const separator = ['ja', 'zh'].includes(toBaseLanguageCode(language)) ? '' : ' ';
+  return splitTextToTtsBlocks(text, options).join(separator);
+};
 
 // Helper functions to merge quoted dialogue across sentences
 const countDoubleQuotes = (s: string): number => {
@@ -265,8 +271,8 @@ const countNonApostropheSingleQuotes = (s: string): number => {
     if (ch === "'" || ch === '‘' || ch === '’') {
       const prev = i > 0 ? s[i - 1] : '';
       const next = i + 1 < s.length ? s[i + 1] : '';
-      const isPrevAlphaNum = /[A-Za-z0-9]/.test(prev);
+      const isPrevAlphaNum = /[\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]/u.test(prev);
-      const isNextAlphaNum = /[A-Za-z0-9]/.test(next);
+      const isNextAlphaNum = /[\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]/u.test(next);
       // Treat as a real quote mark only when it's not clearly an apostrophe
       // between two alphanumeric characters (e.g., don't, WizardLM’s).
       if (!(isPrevAlphaNum && isNextAlphaNum)) {

src/lib/shared/tts-segment-plan.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { preprocessSentenceForAudio, splitTextToTtsBlocks, splitTextToTtsBlocksE
 import type { TTSSegmentLocator } from '@/types/client';
 import type { ReaderType } from '@/types/user-state';
 
-export const TTS_SEGMENT_PLAN_VERSION = 'tts-segment-plan-v1';
+export const TTS_SEGMENT_PLAN_VERSION = 'tts-segment-plan-v2';
 
 export interface CanonicalTtsSourceUnit {
   sourceKey: string;
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ export interface CanonicalTtsSegmentPlanOptions {
   maxBlockLength?: number;
   keyPrefix?: string;
   enforceSourceBoundaries?: boolean;
+  language?: string;
 }
 
 interface PreparedSourceUnit {
@@ -215,7 +216,10 @@ export function planCanonicalTtsSegments(
   }
 
   const canonicalText = textParts.join('');
-  const splitOptions = { maxBlockLength: options.maxBlockLength };
+  const splitOptions = {
+    maxBlockLength: options.maxBlockLength,
+    language: options.language,
+  };
   const splitIntoBlocks = (text: string): string[] =>
     readerType === 'epub'
       ? splitTextToTtsBlocksEPUB(text, splitOptions)

src/types/client.ts

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export interface AudiobookGenerationSettings {
   postSpeed: number;
   format: TTSAudiobookFormat;
   ttsInstructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
 }
 
 export interface CreateChapterPayload {
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ export interface TTSSegmentSettings {
   voice: string;
   nativeSpeed: number;
   ttsInstructions?: string;
+  language?: string;
 }
 
 type TTSReaderType = 'pdf' | 'epub' | 'html';

src/types/document-settings.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type { ParsedPdfBlockKind } from '@/types/parsed-pdf';
 
 export interface DocumentSettings {
   schemaVersion: 1;
+  language?: string;
   pdf?: {
     skipBlockKinds: ParsedPdfBlockKind[];
   };
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ export interface DocumentSettings {
 
 export const DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS: DocumentSettings = {
   schemaVersion: 1,
+  language: 'auto',
   pdf: {
     skipBlockKinds: ['header', 'footer', 'footnote', 'vision_footnote'],
   },

tests/files/multilingual-sample.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+English
+OpenReader should split this sentence correctly. This is the second sentence.
+
+French
+OpenReader doit correctement segmenter cette phrase. Voici la deuxième phrase.
+
+Spanish
+OpenReader debe segmentar correctamente esta frase. Esta es la segunda frase.
+
+Arabic
+يجب أن يقسم أوبن ريدر هذه الجملة بشكل صحيح. هذه هي الجملة الثانية.
+
+Hindi
+ओपनरीडर को इस वाक्य को सही ढंग से विभाजित करना चाहिए। यह दूसरा वाक्य है।
+
+Japanese
+OpenReaderはこの文を正しく分割する必要があります。これは二番目の文です。
+
+Chinese
+OpenReader应该正确地分割这个句子。这是第二句话。
+
+Thai
+OpenReader ควรแบ่งประโยคนี้อย่างถูกต้อง นี่คือประโยคที่สอง

tests/unit/audiobook-settings.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ describe('coerceAudiobookGenerationSettings', () => {
       postSpeed: 1,
       format: 'mp3',
       ttsInstructions: 'keep calm',
+      language: 'ja-jp',
     });
 
     expect(result.migrated).toBe(false);
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ describe('coerceAudiobookGenerationSettings', () => {
       postSpeed: 1,
       format: 'mp3',
       ttsInstructions: 'keep calm',
+      language: 'ja-JP',
     });
   });
 
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ describe('coerceAudiobookGenerationSettings', () => {
         postSpeed: 1,
         format: 'mp3',
         ttsInstructions: '',
+        language: 'en',
       },
       restrictUserApiKeys: true,
       fallbackProviderRef: 'shared-openai',
@@ -111,5 +114,6 @@ describe('coerceAudiobookGenerationSettings', () => {
     expect(settings.providerType).toBe('openai');
     expect(settings.ttsModel).toBe('gpt-4o-mini-tts');
     expect(settings.ttsInstructions).toBe('Speak with warmth.');
+    expect(settings.language).toBe('en');
   });
 });

tests/unit/document-settings.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+import { mergeDocumentSettings } from '../../src/lib/shared/document-settings';
+import { DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS } from '../../src/types/document-settings';
+
+describe('document settings language', () => {
+  test('defaults to automatic language resolution', () => {
+    expect(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, null).language).toBe('auto');
+  });
+
+  test('normalizes explicit BCP 47 language tags', () => {
+    expect(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, { language: 'zh-cn' }).language).toBe('zh-CN');
+    expect(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, { language: 'JA' }).language).toBe('ja');
+  });
+
+  test('preserves language when PDF settings are absent', () => {
+    expect(mergeDocumentSettings(DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS, { language: 'fr' })).toMatchObject({
+      language: 'fr',
+      pdf: DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_SETTINGS.pdf,
+    });
+  });
+});

tests/unit/epub-word-highlight.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
 
 import {
-  buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap,
+  resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange,
   tokenizeCanonicalSegment,
 } from '../../src/lib/client/epub/epub-word-highlight';
 import type { CanonicalTtsSegment } from '../../src/lib/shared/tts-segment-plan';
@@ -18,16 +18,46 @@ const segment = (text: string, offset = 0): CanonicalTtsSegment => ({
   spansSourceBoundary: false,
 });
 
-const alignmentWords = (words: string[]): TTSSentenceAlignment['words'] =>
-  words.map((word, index) => ({
-    text: word,
-    startSec: index,
-    endSec: index + 0.5,
-    charStart: 0,
-    charEnd: word.length,
-  }));
-
 describe('EPUB word highlight mapping', () => {
+  test('tokenizes Japanese and Chinese using locale-aware word boundaries', () => {
+    const japanese = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment('これは日本語です。', 5), 'ja');
+    expect(japanese.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    expect(japanese.every((token) => token.norm.length > 0)).toBe(true);
+
+    const chinese = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment('这是中文。', 10), 'zh');
+    expect(chinese.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    expect(chinese.map((token) => token.norm).join('')).toBe('这是中文');
+  });
+
+  test('resolves Japanese alignment chunks directly from character offsets', () => {
+    const japanese = segment('これは日本語です。', 25);
+    const word: TTSSentenceAlignment['words'][number] = {
+      text: 'これは',
+      startSec: 0,
+      endSec: 0.5,
+      charStart: 0,
+      charEnd: 3,
+    };
+
+    expect(resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange(japanese, word)).toEqual({
+      sourceStart: 25,
+      sourceEnd: 28,
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('rejects invalid alignment character offsets so token mapping can be used', () => {
+    const japanese = segment('これは日本語です。', 25);
+    const word: TTSSentenceAlignment['words'][number] = {
+      text: '範囲外',
+      startSec: 0,
+      endSec: 0.5,
+      charStart: 20,
+      charEnd: 23,
+    };
+
+    expect(resolveAlignmentWordSourceRange(japanese, word)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
   test('tokenizes canonical segment words with source offsets', () => {
     const tokens = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment('"Hello," she said.', 12));
 
@@ -38,23 +68,4 @@ describe('EPUB word highlight mapping', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  test('maps repeated words monotonically instead of jumping to later duplicates', () => {
-    const tokens = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment('the light and the shadow and the light returned'));
-    const map = buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap(
-      alignmentWords(['the', 'light', 'and', 'the', 'shadow', 'and', 'the', 'light', 'returned']),
-      tokens,
-    );
-
-    expect(map).toEqual([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]);
-  });
-
-  test('leaves unmatched alignment words unhighlighted instead of borrowing a neighbor', () => {
-    const tokens = tokenizeCanonicalSegment(segment('alpha beta gamma'));
-    const map = buildMonotonicWordToTokenMap(
-      alignmentWords(['alpha', 'missing', 'gamma']),
-      tokens,
-    );
-
-    expect(map).toEqual([0, -1, 2]);
-  });
 });

tests/unit/highlight-token-alignment.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+import {
+  buildAlignmentTokenRanges,
+  findBestHighlightTokenMatch,
+} from '../../src/lib/client/highlight-token-alignment';
+import { segmentWords } from '../../src/lib/shared/language';
+import type { TTSSentenceAlignment } from '../../src/types/tts';
+
+const alignmentWords = (
+  words: string[],
+): TTSSentenceAlignment['words'] =>
+  words.map((word, index) => ({
+    text: word,
+    startSec: index,
+    endSec: index + 0.5,
+    charStart: 0,
+    charEnd: word.length,
+  }));
+
+describe('shared viewer highlight token alignment', () => {
+  test('finds an exact sentence in a large document without entering fuzzy comparison', () => {
+    const targets = Array.from({ length: 20_000 }, (_, index) => `token-${index}`);
+    targets.splice(15_000, 4, 'the', 'exact', 'sentence', 'here');
+
+    expect(findBestHighlightTokenMatch(
+      ['the', 'exact', 'sentence', 'here'],
+      targets,
+    )).toEqual({
+      start: 15_000,
+      end: 15_003,
+      rating: 1,
+      lengthDiff: 0,
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('matches a complete Japanese sentence using locale-aware token count', () => {
+    const sentence = 'これは日本語です。';
+    const patternTokens = segmentWords(sentence, 'ja').map((token) => token.text);
+    const tokenTexts = ['前文', ...patternTokens, '次文'];
+
+    expect(findBestHighlightTokenMatch(patternTokens, tokenTexts)).toMatchObject({
+      start: 1,
+      end: patternTokens.length,
+      lengthDiff: 0,
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('matches spaced Latin text without relying on whitespace tokens', () => {
+    expect(findBestHighlightTokenMatch(
+      ['hello', 'world'],
+      ['before', 'hello', 'world', 'after'],
+    )).toMatchObject({
+      start: 1,
+      end: 2,
+      lengthDiff: 0,
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('maps a Japanese timed chunk across every visible token it spans', () => {
+    expect(buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+      alignmentWords(['これは', '日本語', 'です']),
+      ['これ', 'は', '日本語', 'です'],
+    )).toEqual([
+      { start: 0, end: 1 },
+      { start: 2, end: 2 },
+      { start: 3, end: 3 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test('maps visible chunks back to a larger timed Japanese token', () => {
+    expect(buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+      alignmentWords(['これ', 'は', '日本語', 'です']),
+      ['これは', '日本語', 'です'],
+    )).toEqual([
+      { start: 0, end: 0 },
+      { start: 0, end: 0 },
+      { start: 1, end: 1 },
+      { start: 2, end: 2 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test('maps repeated words monotonically', () => {
+    expect(buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+      alignmentWords(['the', 'light', 'and', 'the', 'light']),
+      ['the', 'light', 'and', 'the', 'light'],
+    )).toEqual([
+      { start: 0, end: 0 },
+      { start: 1, end: 1 },
+      { start: 2, end: 2 },
+      { start: 3, end: 3 },
+      { start: 4, end: 4 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test('can leave unrelated fallback tokens unmapped for strict viewers', () => {
+    expect(buildAlignmentTokenRanges(
+      alignmentWords(['alpha', 'missing', 'gamma']),
+      ['alpha', 'beta', 'gamma'],
+      { minimumSimilarity: 0.8 },
+    )).toEqual([
+      { start: 0, end: 0 },
+      null,
+      { start: 2, end: 2 },
+    ]);
+  });
+});

tests/unit/language.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { resolve } from 'path';
+
+import {
+  getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings,
+  inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice,
+  keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage,
+  normalizeOptionalLanguageTag,
+  normalizeUnicodeToken,
+  resolveTtsLanguage,
+  segmentSentences,
+  segmentWords,
+  toBaseLanguageCode,
+} from '../../src/lib/shared/language';
+
+describe('multilingual language utilities', () => {
+  test('keeps the multilingual document fixture readable as UTF-8', () => {
+    const fixture = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'tests/files/multilingual-sample.txt'), 'utf8');
+    expect(fixture).toContain('これは二番目の文です。');
+    expect(fixture).toContain('这是第二句话。');
+    expect(fixture).toContain('هذه هي الجملة الثانية.');
+  });
+
+  test('infers Kokoro language from a single-language voice selection', () => {
+    expect(inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice('jf_alpha')).toBe('ja');
+    expect(inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice('zf_xiaobei(0.5)+zm_yunxi(0.5)')).toBe('zh-CN');
+    expect(inferKokoroLanguageFromVoice('ff_siwis+jf_alpha')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test('keeps Kokoro multi-voice selections within the newly selected language', () => {
+    expect(keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(
+      ['af_sarah', 'bf_emma', 'jf_alpha'],
+      'jf_alpha',
+    )).toEqual(['jf_alpha']);
+
+    expect(keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(
+      ['zf_xiaobei', 'zm_yunxi', 'af_sarah'],
+      'zm_yunxi',
+    )).toEqual(['zf_xiaobei', 'zm_yunxi']);
+
+    expect(keepKokoroVoicesInOneLanguage(
+      ['af_sarah', 'bf_emma'],
+      'bf_emma',
+    )).toEqual(['af_sarah', 'bf_emma']);
+  });
+
+  test('normalizes valid EPUB metadata language tags and rejects invalid metadata', () => {
+    expect(normalizeOptionalLanguageTag(' ja-jp ')).toBe('ja-JP');
+    expect(normalizeOptionalLanguageTag('fr, en')).toBe('fr');
+    expect(normalizeOptionalLanguageTag('not_a_language')).toBeNull();
+    expect(normalizeOptionalLanguageTag(undefined)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test('warns only for provable Kokoro language compatibility problems', () => {
+    expect(getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+      model: 'kokoro',
+      voice: 'jf_alpha',
+      documentLanguage: 'ja',
+    })).toEqual([]);
+
+    expect(getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+      model: 'kokoro',
+      voice: 'af_sarah',
+      documentLanguage: 'ja',
+    })).toEqual([
+      'Selected Kokoro voice is American English, but the document is Japanese.',
+    ]);
+
+    expect(getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+      model: 'kokoro',
+      voice: 'ff_siwis+jf_alpha',
+      documentLanguage: 'fr',
+    })).toEqual([]);
+
+    expect(getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+      model: 'kokoro',
+      voice: 'af_sarah',
+      documentLanguage: 'ar',
+    })).toEqual([
+      "Kokoro's built-in voice catalog does not include Arabic.",
+      'Selected Kokoro voice is American English, but the document is Arabic.',
+    ]);
+
+    expect(getTtsLanguageCompatibilityWarnings({
+      model: 'custom-unknown-model',
+      voice: 'af_sarah',
+      documentLanguage: 'ja',
+    })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('prefers an explicit language and resolves regional tags for Whisper', () => {
+    expect(resolveTtsLanguage({ configuredLanguage: 'pt-BR', voice: 'jf_alpha' })).toBe('pt-BR');
+    expect(resolveTtsLanguage({ configuredLanguage: 'auto', voice: 'jf_alpha' })).toBe('ja');
+    expect(toBaseLanguageCode('zh-CN')).toBe('zh');
+  });
+
+  test('normalizes Unicode tokens without dropping non-Latin scripts', () => {
+    expect(normalizeUnicodeToken('École!')).toBe('école');
+    expect(normalizeUnicodeToken('日本語。')).toBe('日本語');
+    expect(normalizeUnicodeToken('العربية؟')).toBe('العربية');
+    expect(normalizeUnicodeToken('हिन्दी।')).toBe('हिन्दी');
+  });
+
+  test('segments CJK sentences and no-space language words', () => {
+    expect(segmentSentences('これは最初の文です。これは二番目の文です。', 'ja')).toEqual([
+      'これは最初の文です。',
+      'これは二番目の文です。',
+    ]);
+
+    const chineseWords = segmentWords('这是第一句话。', 'zh').map((token) => token.text);
+    expect(chineseWords.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    expect(chineseWords.join('')).toBe('这是第一句话');
+  });
+
+  test('preserves source offsets for Thai word segmentation', () => {
+    const text = 'นี่คือประโยคแรก';
+    const words = segmentWords(text, 'th');
+    expect(words.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    for (const word of words) {
+      expect(text.slice(word.start, word.end)).toBe(word.text);
+    }
+  });
+});

tests/unit/nlp.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -46,6 +46,20 @@ describe('preprocessSentenceForAudio', () => {
 });
 
 describe('splitTextToTtsBlocks (PDF-oriented)', () => {
+  test('uses locale-aware sentence boundaries for Japanese and Chinese', () => {
+    expect(splitTextToTtsBlocks(
+      'これは最初の文です。これは二番目の文です。',
+      { language: 'ja', maxBlockLength: 50 },
+    )).toEqual(['これは最初の文です。これは二番目の文です。']);
+
+    const chinese = splitTextToTtsBlocks(
+      Array(12).fill('这是一个用于测试分句的中文句子。').join(''),
+      { language: 'zh', maxBlockLength: 50 },
+    );
+    expect(chinese.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    expect(chinese.join('')).toContain('用于测试分句');
+  });
+
   test('returns [] for empty input', () => {
     expect(splitTextToTtsBlocks('')).toEqual([]);
     expect(splitTextToTtsBlocks('   ')).toEqual([]);
@@ -201,4 +215,11 @@ describe('normalizeTextForTts', () => {
     expect(normalized).not.toMatch(/\s{2,}/);
     expect(normalized.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
   });
+
+  test('does not insert spaces between normalized Japanese blocks', () => {
+    expect(normalizeTextForTts('最初の文です。次の文です。', {
+      language: 'ja',
+      maxBlockLength: 7,
+    })).toBe('最初の文です。次の文です。');
+  });
 });

tests/unit/shared-form-control-consumers.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { resolve } from 'path';
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+const STANDARD_FORM_CONSUMERS = [
+  'src/app/(app)/signin/page.tsx',
+  'src/app/(app)/signup/page.tsx',
+  'src/components/PrivacyModal.tsx',
+  'src/components/SettingsModal.tsx',
+  'src/components/admin/AdminFeaturesPanel.tsx',
+  'src/components/admin/AdminProvidersPanel.tsx',
+  'src/components/documents/DocumentSelectionModal.tsx',
+];
+
+describe('shared form-control consumers', () => {
+  test('standard forms use shared inputs, textareas, and checkboxes', () => {
+    for (const relativePath of STANDARD_FORM_CONSUMERS) {
+      const source = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), relativePath), 'utf8');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toMatch(/<(input|textarea)\b/);
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain('inputClass');
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('auth pages use the shared inline button', () => {
+    for (const relativePath of [
+      'src/app/(app)/signin/page.tsx',
+      'src/app/(app)/signup/page.tsx',
+    ]) {
+      const source = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), relativePath), 'utf8');
+      expect(source, relativePath).toContain('<InlineButton');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toMatch(/<button\b/);
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('shared primitives own standard form-control chrome', () => {
+    const inputSource = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'src/components/ui/input.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    const checkboxSource = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'src/components/ui/checkbox.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    expect(inputSource).toContain('inputStyles');
+    expect(inputSource).toContain('export function Textarea');
+    expect(checkboxSource).toContain('checkboxClass');
+    expect(checkboxSource).toContain('export const Checkbox');
+  });
+});

tests/unit/shared-overlay-consumers.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { resolve } from 'path';
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+const STANDARD_OVERLAY_CONSUMERS = [
+  'src/components/admin/AdminProvidersPanel.tsx',
+  'src/components/AudiobookExportModal.tsx',
+  'src/components/ColorPicker.tsx',
+  'src/components/doclist/window/FinderSidebar.tsx',
+  'src/components/documents/DocumentHeaderMenu.tsx',
+  'src/components/player/Navigator.tsx',
+  'src/components/player/SpeedControl.tsx',
+];
+
+describe('shared overlay consumers', () => {
+  test('standard menus and popovers do not compose Headless UI directly', () => {
+    for (const relativePath of STANDARD_OVERLAY_CONSUMERS) {
+      const source = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), relativePath), 'utf8');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain("from '@headlessui/react'");
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('shared overlay primitives own standard composition', () => {
+    const menuSource = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'src/components/ui/menu.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    const popoverSource = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'src/components/ui/popover.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    expect(menuSource).toContain('export const MenuRoot');
+    expect(menuSource).toContain('export function MenuTransition');
+    expect(popoverSource).toContain('export const PopoverRoot');
+    expect(popoverSource).toContain('export function PopoverIconTrigger');
+  });
+});

tests/unit/shared-select-consumers.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { resolve } from 'path';
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+const STANDARD_SELECT_CONSUMERS = [
+  'src/components/SettingsModal.tsx',
+  'src/components/documents/DocumentSettings.tsx',
+  'src/components/admin/AdminFeaturesPanel.tsx',
+  'src/components/admin/AdminProvidersPanel.tsx',
+  'src/components/AudiobookExportModal.tsx',
+];
+
+describe('shared Select consumers', () => {
+  test('standard settings dropdowns use the high-level UI primitive', () => {
+    for (const relativePath of STANDARD_SELECT_CONSUMERS) {
+      const source = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), relativePath), 'utf8');
+      expect(source, relativePath).toContain('<Select');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain('<Listbox');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain('<SharedListboxButton');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain('<SharedListboxOptions');
+      expect(source, relativePath).not.toContain('<SharedListboxOption');
+    }
+  });
+
+  test('the shared Select owns standard dropdown chrome', () => {
+    const source = readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), 'src/components/ui/select.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    expect(source).toContain('ChevronUpDownIcon');
+    expect(source).toContain('CheckIcon');
+    expect(source).toContain('<Transition');
+  });
+});

tests/unit/tts-generate.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
 
-import { extractReplicateAudioUrl } from '../../src/lib/server/tts/generate';
+import {
+  buildTTSCacheKey,
+  extractReplicateAudioUrl,
+  resolveReplicateLanguageValue,
+} from '../../src/lib/server/tts/generate';
 
 describe('replicate output URL extraction', () => {
   test('returns direct URL string output', () => {
@@ -41,3 +45,29 @@ describe('replicate output URL extraction', () => {
     expect(extractReplicateAudioUrl(output)).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe('TTS upstream cache identity', () => {
+  test('includes language in the upstream audio cache key', () => {
+    const request = {
+      text: '同じ文章です。',
+      voice: 'jf_alpha',
+      speed: 1,
+      format: 'mp3',
+      model: 'kokoro',
+      provider: 'custom-openai',
+      apiKey: 'test',
+    };
+
+    expect(buildTTSCacheKey({ ...request, language: 'ja' }))
+      .not.toBe(buildTTSCacheKey({ ...request, language: 'en' }));
+  });
+});
+
+describe('Replicate language schema values', () => {
+  test('uses language codes or advertised display names without a model table', () => {
+    expect(resolveReplicateLanguageValue('ja-JP', [])).toBe('ja-JP');
+    expect(resolveReplicateLanguageValue('ja-JP', ['en', 'ja', 'zh'])).toBe('ja');
+    expect(resolveReplicateLanguageValue('ja-JP', ['English', 'Japanese'])).toBe('Japanese');
+    expect(resolveReplicateLanguageValue('ja-JP', ['English', 'French'])).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

tests/unit/tts-provider-catalog.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ import {
   supportsTtsInstructions,
 } from '../../src/lib/shared/tts-provider-catalog';
 import { normalizeLegacyProviderRef, resolveProviderDefaults, resolveTtsModelForProvider } from '../../src/lib/shared/tts-provider-policy';
-import { resolveReplicateVoiceInputKey, resolveVoices } from '../../src/lib/server/tts/voice-resolution';
+import {
+  resolveReplicateLanguageInputKey,
+  resolveReplicateVoiceInputKey,
+  resolveVoices,
+} from '../../src/lib/server/tts/voice-resolution';
 import { applyConfigUpdate, getVoicePreferenceKey } from '../../src/lib/client/config/updates';
 import { buildSyncedPreferencePatch } from '../../src/lib/client/config/preferences';
 
@@ -387,6 +391,50 @@ describe('tts provider catalog', () => {
       globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
     }
   });
+
+  test('discovers Replicate language input key from model schema', async () => {
+    const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+    let calls = 0;
+    globalThis.fetch = async () => {
+      calls += 1;
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({
+          latest_version: {
+            openapi_schema: {
+              components: {
+                schemas: {
+                  Input: {
+                    type: 'object',
+                    properties: {
+                      text: { type: 'string' },
+                      language_code: { type: 'string' },
+                    },
+                  },
+                },
+              },
+            },
+          },
+        }),
+      } as Response;
+    };
+
+    try {
+      await expect(resolveReplicateLanguageInputKey({
+        provider: 'replicate',
+        model: 'acme/schema-language-model',
+        apiKey: 'r8_token',
+      })).resolves.toBe('language_code');
+      await expect(resolveReplicateLanguageInputKey({
+        provider: 'replicate',
+        model: 'acme/schema-language-model',
+        apiKey: 'r8_token',
+      })).resolves.toBe('language_code');
+      expect(calls).toBe(1);
+    } finally {
+      globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+    }
+  });
 });
 
 describe('config helpers', () => {

tests/unit/tts-segments.vitest.spec.ts

@@ -195,4 +195,19 @@ describe('tts segment helpers', () => {
     expect(alignment.words[2].endSec).toBeGreaterThan(1.4);
     expect(alignment.words[1].charStart).toBeGreaterThan(alignment.words[0].charStart);
   });
+
+  test('builds proportional alignment for no-space languages', () => {
+    const sentence = 'これは日本語です';
+    const alignment = buildProportionalAlignment({
+      sentence,
+      sentenceIndex: 2,
+      durationMs: 1200,
+      language: 'ja',
+    });
+
+    expect(alignment.words.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    for (const word of alignment.words) {
+      expect(sentence.slice(word.charStart, word.charEnd)).toBe(word.text);
+    }
+  });
 });