---
name: frank-tts-voice-locate
description: "Answer fleet-voice questions (where voices are stored, add a voice) by jumping straight to the serverAppConfig vault pages and the live 7772 roster probe, instead of re-searching Gitea for a frank-tts repo that does not exist."
---

# Frank-TTS voice facts: skip the search, go to the owners

Questions like "how do I add a voice?", "where are voices stored?", "why is narratorN missing?" are already answered elsewhere. The frank-tts code does NOT live in a Gitea repo named frank-tts (repo search finds nothing; it is `dank/serverAppConfigs`), and the engine repo is upstream qwentts.cpp pinned at `5916bf7c`.

## Resolution order (one grep, no repo search)

1. **Vault pages (canonical, all of it lives here)** in the local checkout `~/Projects/serverAppConfig`:
   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Voice Packs.md` — pack anatomy, the builder, the 10-second source invariant, "Adding a fourth voice" steps, engine-bump arithmetic.
   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Frank TTS Engine.md` — registry law (memory-only; warm hook), routes, Vulkan device law, troubleshooting table.
   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Frank TTS.md` — the 7772 facade contract.
   - Code/seam: `dankclaw/voiceservice/`, `scripts/build-voice-pack.sh`, `scripts/voice-packs.env`, `tests/voice_pack_unit.bats`.
2. **Live roster** (authoritative over any doc census): `curl -s http://192.168.0.143:7772/v1/audio/voices` (bare JSON array; `/health` also echoes `voices`). A missing name = its dir lacks `reference.wav` or the name is not lowercase — check `/home/dank/voices/<name>/` via `ssh dankclaw`.

## Facts that cost turns to re-derive

- Voice storage: `/home/dank/voices/<name>/` on Dankclaw (host state, never git; RO mount at `/voices`). Files: `reference.wav` (24 kHz mono, 18–25 s, existence gate), `reference.spk` (8192 B), `reference.rvq` (5456–6864 B), `manifest.json`.
- Roster = facade directory scan; engine registry is in-memory, filled by `podman exec frank-tts-engine /app/warm-voices.sh` (boot `ExecStartPost`; re-register replaces, restart costs 6–8 s/voice).
- Clients (omp-dankvoice, OpenWebUI) store NO voices — they GET `/v1/audio/voices`; only the chosen name persists client-side (`~/.omp/cache/dankvoice.json` `voice`).
- Crop law: past first 10 s (hard invariant), 20–25 s preferred, floor 19.84 s for `.rvq`; sources pinned by sha256 in `scripts/voice-packs.env`; sample media live on workstations (`/home/blank/audiosample*`) and must be copied to `/home/dank/voice-sources` before a build.
- Engine `GET /v1/audio/voices` returns `{}` at the pinned commit — always ask the 7772 facade, never 8880, for the list.