chore(frank-tts): repoint narrator slots to the live voice packs

Frank replaced the narrator1/2/3 packs with cloned character voices
(wilwheaton, vaati, dr.kern, garrickhagon, jeffhays). The three narrator
slots are now carried by real packs: narrator1=wilwheaton, narrator2=vaati,
narrator3=dr.kern.

- frank-tts.env DEFAULT_VOICE narrator1 -> wilwheaton (a voice-less request
  400'd on the dead name; wilwheaton is narrator1's successor).
- Docs: correct the /health census and the podcast-speaker references in
  Frank TTS.md and Open Notebook.md to the live packs. Dated 2026-10-18/19
  measurement logs are left as history.

Open Notebook's live dank-duo speaker profile was repointed over REST
(Frank->wilwheaton, Comrade->vaati) - app-side, not in this commit.
Bats fixtures keep narrator1 as a self-contained sample pack; untouched.
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ never learn a path.
**Deployed 2026-10-18** — `./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service frank-tts`
both units `active`, no drop-ins, and the homepage card's `wip` gate came off in
the same change. Probes on the deployed endpoint: `/health` answers
`{"status":"ok","backend":"omni-http","voices":["narrator1","narrator2","narrator3"]}`
`{"status":"ok","backend":"omni-http","voices":["dr.kern","garrickhagon","jeffhays","vaati","wilwheaton"]}`
and two different voices rendered the same sentence into **different** bytes
(24 kHz mono PCM16, 4.24 s, healthy RMS) — so name resolution is real, not a
pass-through of one default. The operator harness routes its `speech` role here;
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ render needs the app installed, not this endpoint.
## Naming a voice
A voice **is** a directory name. `voice=narrator1` resolves to
`/voices/narrator1/reference.wav`, and that file — not a manifest, not a config
A voice **is** a directory name. `voice=wilwheaton` resolves to
`/voices/wilwheaton/reference.wav`, and that file — not a manifest, not a config
entry — is what makes the name real. omp's TTS device may send `voice_id`; the
shim accepts either. A call that sends **neither** — the harness's normal shape,
because no harness setting carries a voice for this transport — speaks
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ loudly instead of letting it half-work.
Names are user-visible: an unknown voice comes back as
`400 unknown voice 'x'; available voices: …`, and that list is the honest
census. The podcast speakers are `narrator1`, `narrator2`, `narrator3` —
[[Open Notebook]] is configured with exactly those three, so renaming them
breaks episode rendering, not just speech. A personal voice gets the person's
name, lowercase.
census. As of 2026-10-20 the live packs are `dr.kern`, `garrickhagon`,
`jeffhays`, `vaati`, `wilwheaton`. [[Open Notebook]]'s `dank-duo` profile speaks
`wilwheaton` (Frank) and `vaati` (Comrade), and `DEFAULT_VOICE` is `wilwheaton`.
Renaming a pack that a speaker profile names breaks episode rendering, not just
speech. A personal voice gets the person's name, lowercase.
## Voice packs
@@ -221,5 +222,5 @@ harness bundle and measured the day of the flip:
| Endpoint answers, synthesis fails | the engine: `podman healthcheck run frank-tts-engine`, then `systemctl --user status frank-tts-engine.service` |
| First request of the day is ~0.6 s slower than the rest — or every name returns 400 | the warm pass did not run; it carries `-`, so it cannot fail the unit. `journalctl --user -u frank-tts-engine` for the warmer's lines, then `podman exec frank-tts-engine /app/warm-voices.sh` — the registry is memory-only (law 1 of [[Frank TTS Engine]]) |
| The unit never appears after a deploy | the generator dropped it: `frank-tts-engine.network` is missing from `~/.config/containers/systemd/` |
| A consumer rejects `narrator1` by listing 29 names (`af_heart … bm_fable`) and no request ever reaches this endpoint | that consumer is synthesizing **in the browser** with Kokoro.js, whose voice pack is fixed — OpenWebUI 0.11.4 ships it as the `browser-kokoro` TTS engine; see [[OpenWebUI]] |
| A consumer rejects `wilwheaton` by listing 29 names (`af_heart … bm_fable`) and no request ever reaches this endpoint | that consumer is synthesizing **in the browser** with Kokoro.js, whose voice pack is fixed — OpenWebUI 0.11.4 ships it as the `browser-kokoro` TTS engine; see [[OpenWebUI]] |
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