- filmcraft-tts (feature kokoro): Kokoro-82M on candle, implemented from
the StyleTTS 2 / iSTFTNet / ALBERT papers, config.json and the
checkpoint's tensor shapes; official .pth read with candle's restricted
pickle reader; voice packs from their zip. Neural Voice: tts-text
phonemize -> Kokoro per chunk -> pauses -> pitch via audio-dsp.
- catalog: 9 US English voices (model card grade C+ or better) + CMUdict,
every file pinned to a revision and SHA-256 (336 MB).
- speech: generic download_files (same verified downloader).
- engine: tts.render (background synthesis into Session::tts_cache),
tts.downloadVoices (background job, cancellable), voices list with
package state; feature neural-voices (default on in the desktop app).
- ui: natural/basic voice groups, consent box (size, sources, licences),
download progress + Cancel, synthesis never blocks the window;
ui.set {tts:{...}} for agents.
Measured: Whisper-base WER on 50 original sentences 2.1-3.6 % for all 9
voices (built-in robotic voice 96.6 %); 2.2-2.3x real time on CPU.
Gates: fmt, clippy, layers, assets, wasm pass; tests pass except
shortcuts_tests::assign_reassigns_conflicts_and_undoes (fails on main)
and the frame pool test (flaky under load, passes alone).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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