Casting sheet, first pass
One line per character, two synthetic takes each. MiniMax is the expressive candidate with emotion, pitch and speed control. Kokoro is the cheap British fallback. Neither is final casting; they set the register for each part.
Takes:
What to listen for
- Mack is pinned. Listen for whether lines two to four still sound like the reference. The MiniMax clone has emotion, pitch and speed controls for production; the Qwen clone has none but may stay closer.
- Bartle and Lord Cotton are the same voice. The reveal lives in the pitch drop and the slower pace, not in a new actor.
- Fennimore runs down. The stalls are written into the line; a good take lands the pauses.
- Pip and Miss Glaze are the comic register: quick, bright, and a little afraid of the management.
- Mrs. Bobbin is the one voice allowed to be slow and sad.
Generated with `voices/gen_voices.py` via Replicate. Voice ids, emotion, pitch and speed are listed under each take so a good one can be reproduced.