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Designs and attaches voice samples or final narration/line audio on the filmmaking canvas via the local generate_voice.js CLI. Use before calling generate_voice.js; when the user asks to give a character a voice, preview how a character sounds, create reusable timbre anchors for every speaking character or VO/narration, or create exact narration/VO/final line audio.

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Default to one short reusable timbre sample per speaking character and one VO/narrator sample when narration exists. video-compose keeps actual shot dialogue/VO in the video prompt. Treat audio_result.data.text as downstream speech only for approved final narration/line reads.

Patterns

Follow PROJECT_AGENT.md for context/staging. This skill owns voice prompt + CLI shape.

1. Character voice sample

Triggers: "give / design a voice for [character]", "what does [character] sound like", "voices for all the characters on the canvas".

  • Target: any image_result for the person; don't gate on subtype. Read data.local_path before prompt; layer name/role/description on top.

  • Call:

    node "$PAI_REPO_ROOT/server/cli/generate_voice.js" \
  --text "<line>" \
  --prompt "<voice design brief>" \
  --source-node-id <character.id>

  • Prompt describes the voice, not the character:

    [age bracket] [gender], [timbre], [register], [pace], [accent if relevant]. [optional emotional color].

    ✅ "Mid-50s man, gravelly baritone, measured pace, slight rasp from decades of smoking, weary but steady." ✅ "Young woman, bright mezzo, warm, quick and percussive. Slight Southern lilt." ❌ "Detective Morris's voice." — names the character, not the voice. The model needs sound qualities.

  • text: 1-3 sentence in-character sample (≤200 chars), not every script line.

  • Script breakdowns: one staged call per speaker; preserve labels. Add separate VO/narrator via Pattern 2.

2. Narrator / VO voice sample or final line audio

Triggers: narrator voice, voice-over, "a voice that says X" without character, narration track, or explicit final line-read audio.

  • Omit --source-node-id: 
    node "$PAI_REPO_ROOT/server/cli/generate_voice.js" \
  --text "<the narration line>" \
  --prompt "<voice design brief>"
  • Same prompt convention as Pattern 1.
  • Reusable VO/narrator anchor: short sample line in narrator style, not full script narration.
  • Final narration/line-read: copy approved text exactly into --text; then data.text is source of truth.