Brings in the Phase 5B caller-generation rewrite:
- Slim two-stage pipeline: Sonnet 4.6 batch identity pregen at session
start, Haiku 4.5 live dialog per turn. Deletes CallerBackground
dataclass, shape/style/voice-matching, per-model routing, preflight UI.
- New caller_gen.py (slim prompt builder) and regulars_v2.py (Obsidian
lore loader for named recurring callers).
- Reworked caller buttons and info panel around the slim background:
identity, situation, signature, secret want. Removes shape badges,
energy dots, emotion info-badges.
- Inworld TTS: emotional_register -> (temperature, speed_adjust) mapping
via _emotional_register_to_params(). applyTextNormalization ON.
- Silas identity/voice leak fix, avatar gender, pre-warm batch gen.
- Archives old regulars to data/regulars.archived.json, adds 10 sample
caller transcripts under docs/samples/.
Post-merge fixes applied during resolution:
- intern.py: kept main's richer new_show() (NEW SHOW history marker,
trim, _save()) and _track_suggestion(); removed the branch's
duplicate minimal new_show() stub.
- tts.py: added 5 voice speed overrides (Graham, Malcolm, Victoria,
Loretta, Marlene) that main had tuned locally. Evelyn deliberately
NOT added to VOICE_PROFILES — she is in BLACKLISTED_VOICES for
unnatural prosody.
- Main's cost dashboard polish, LLM per-model params, and Devon show
context memory from commits c087c03..61b3cba carried through cleanly.
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Adds /api/costs/tts endpoint backed by get_tts_providers() in cost_db,
surfaces a Costs link in the control panel header, and small polish
to the costs page HTML/JS.
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session.caller was reading name/voice from CALLER_BASES randomized defaults
instead of the slim bg dict — causing Silas to appear as "Earl" with wrong
voice. Now prefers bg data when populated.
Also: avatar endpoint infers gender from voice pool, /api/callers returns bg
name, regulars get canonical voice force-locked, batch gen splits into two
parallel calls with pre-warm so subsequent resets are instant.
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Changes to backend/services/tts.py:
- Add temperature: 0.9 and applyTextNormalization: "ON" to Inworld payload
(text normalization auto-speaks "$5,432", "Dr.", phone numbers, dates, etc.)
- Add _emotional_register_to_params() mapping caller's emotional_register
to (temperature, speed_adjust) across 5 families: sadness/grief,
anger/aggression, manic/excited, nervous/earnest, gruff/restrained.
- generate_speech_inworld() and generate_speech() now accept optional
emotional_register kwarg; all providers take it via the dispatch lambdas
(only inworld uses it; others ignore)
- Clamp speed to 0.5-1.5 after both emotional-register and per-text adjustments
In backend/main.py: plumb emotional_register through the two caller-dialog
TTS calls (auto-respond and ai-respond) by reading from the slim caller
background dict. Devon and cohost/announcer calls pass empty string and
hit the default (0.9, 0.0) branch — no behavior change.
Replace the CallerBackground isinstance branching in _summarize_ai_call
with direct reads from the new slim caller background dict
(emotional_register, situation, specific_details). Decouples CallRecord
population from caller_styles/caller_shapes so those fields can be
deleted in a later commit.
CallRecord schema preserved for backward-compat with existing
session_checkpoint.json. topic_category, emotional_state, energy_level
are now always empty strings (obsolete under slim architecture).
7 new endpoints: summary, timeline, models, categories, sessions,
session detail, expensive calls. All support period filtering.
Page route at /costs serves costs.html before the catch-all.
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Ep47 post-mortem: fixed theme ignored by callers (backgrounds now
regenerate when theme is set), style-to-model race condition (fallback
to sonnet instead of pool[0]), removed bad pronunciation fixes, added
age-awareness to voice matching, raised MIN_RESPONSE_WORDS to 50.
Swapped problematic model mappings: conspiracy→qwen, know_it_all→mistral,
quiet_nervous→llama, emotional→kimi.
Added GET /api/show/preflight endpoint with 4 checks: model diversity,
theme penetration, voice-age alignment, response coherence (2-exchange
simulation of all callers). Frontend preflight modal with expandable
check cards.
Fixed active caller button not highlighting (moved highlight code before
potentially-failing caller info panel code).
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- Devon: more conversational when addressed directly (500 tokens, 3-5 sentences)
- Devon: monitor prompt rewritten to encourage more contributions
- Devon: polling interval 15s (was 30s), removed 2-message minimum
- Whisper: no fuzzy name matching for 3-char names, require first letter match
- fetch_music.py: post-fetch vocal detection filter using musicinfo tags
- scan_music_vocals.py: new script to scan existing library for vocal tracks
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- Remove caller names from Whisper hint (was corrupting transcriptions)
- Background gen switched to Claude Sonnet 4.6 (cheap models = thin backgrounds)
- "WHAT MAKES A GOOD CALLER" rewritten with concrete examples
- Grok guardrails loosened (were cutting too much edge)
- Response length guidance added to caller prompt
- Retry under-20-word responses once for more detail
- Devon monitor softened from "default silence" to balanced
- Ban stalling phrases: "where was I", "as I was saying", etc.
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Only inject 2 returners if pool has 3+ eligible (so it's not the same every show).
With 2 eligible, inject 1. With 1 or 0, inject none.
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Style-matched defaults:
- Grok 4.1 Fast for edgy callers (high_energy, confrontational, comedian etc.)
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 for emotional callers (quiet_nervous, sweet_earnest, emotional)
- Mistral Large 2512 for deadpan/mysterious/world-weary
- DeepSeek R1 Distill for storyteller/oversharer/conspiracy/rambler
- Gemini 2.5 Flash for know_it_all
- Llama 3.3 70B for first_time/reluctant callers
Category routing: Grok 4.1 Fast for dialog/devon/backgrounds, Gemini Flash for monitor/summary
Updated OPENROUTER_MODELS and OPENROUTER_PRICING with all new models
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- Avatar prefetch checks gender marker, re-fetches on mismatch
- Returning callers need 2+ actual calls before re-eligible (was 1)
- Promotion rate lowered 10% → 5% to prevent pool flooding
- Callback injection skipped for returning callers (already have context)
- Show history clarifies "you are NOT that caller" to prevent identity confusion
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- Three strategies: single model, cycle through pool, style-matched
- 18 communication styles mapped to 7 models (Grok, Sonnet, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemini, Llama)
- Per-caller model locked for entire call, overridable mid-show
- Model badges on caller buttons and info panel
- Settings UI for strategy, pool, style mapping, fallback
- Fallback to Sonnet on model failure
- 6 new models added to pricing and dropdown
- Checkpoint persistence for all model state
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- Pass all caller names as Whisper initial_prompt hint for correct spelling
- Post-transcription fuzzy match corrects remaining misspellings (Levenshtein)
- Prevents AI callers from "correcting" the host on their own name
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- Regex strips all parentheticals and asterisk actions before TTS
- Catches (laughs nervously), *sighs*, etc. that Grok generates
- Strengthened SPEECH ONLY instructions in caller and Devon prompts
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- Route caller_dialog, devon_ask, background_gen to x-ai/grok-4
- Add Grok-4 to OPENROUTER_MODELS and OPENROUTER_PRICING
- Add Grok-specific banned phrases (I hear you, fair enough, that's wild, etc.)
- Add background gen guardrails for Grok (no active violence, no real public figures)
- Soften theme prompt hot-take language for organic connections
- Tighten Devon flirting guardrail (awkward not crude)
- Fix Devon "first day" contradiction on line 36
- Strip silence: preserve music intro, fix ad normalization (direct WAV reading)
- Strip silence: loop range starts 0.5s before audible music
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- Fix Devon "if that makes sense" overuse (limit to once per show)
- Suppress Devon failed lookup notifications for self-initiated searches
- Strengthen show theme prompts (2/3 callers call because of theme)
- Fix sentence trimmer splitting on abbreviations (Mr. Mrs. Dr. etc.)
- Fix cost tracker data lost on server restart (persist in checkpoint)
- Ad/ident normalization targets -4dB below dialog for perceived loudness match
- Lower cross-speaker transition threshold to 5s
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- Add show theme UI in header bar + backend API (inject into caller prompts)
- Add Irish genre category for music dropdown
- Strip silence: RMS-based speaker detection (fixes Devon not being identified)
- Strip silence: Devon-specific 3s threshold for interjections
- Strip silence: sparse track item handling in shift logic
- Strip silence: music lead-in preservation after silence removal
- Strip silence: no max gap limit (IDENT/AD regions protect breaks)
- Add analyze_gaps.py tool for per-show threshold analysis
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- Hide h1 (sr-only) on homepage — banner already shows show name
- Promote tagline as visual lead after banner
- Fix avatar gender: add .gender marker files, re-fetch on mismatch
- Clear stale avatar cache so all re-fetch with correct gender
- Blacklist Celeste voice from caller pool
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- Remove cover art from hero (duplicated in clips below)
- Merge about section into hero for single flowing layout
- Center hero content, remove side-by-side layout
- Fix _match_voices_to_styles() bypassing BLACKLISTED_VOICES —
Sebastian could get assigned to non-Silas callers
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- Add real-time LLM/TTS cost tracking with live status bar display and post-show reports
- Fix PTT bug where Devon suggestion layout shift stopped recording via mouseleave
- Devon: facts-only during calls, full personality between calls
- Double WEIRD topic pool (109→203), bump weight to 14-25%
- Auto-generate YouTube thumbnails with bold hook text in publish pipeline
- LLM SEO: llms.txt, robots.txt for LLM crawlers, structured data, BreadcrumbList schemas
- Publish episode 37
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Massively expanded all 8 caller topic pools from ~1200 to ~2500 entries to
reduce repeat calls. Added persistent topic history (data/used_topics_history.json)
with 30-day aging to prevent cross-episode duplicates. Published episode 35.
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Castopod password, DB password, BunnyCDN keys, Postiz JWT/IDs,
and monitoring token all moved to environment variables.
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- Whisper base → distil-large-v3 for much better live transcription accuracy
- Add context hints to transcription (caller name, screening status)
- Increase beam_size 3→5 for better decoding
- Add explicit role clarification in caller system prompt so LLM knows Luke is the host
- Prefix host messages with [Host Luke] in LLM conversation
- Fix upload_clips episode list sorting (natural numeric order)
- Episodes 26-28 transcripts, data updates, misc fixes
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- Fix TTS text pipeline: new caps handling (spell out unknown acronyms, lowercase
emphasis words), action-word lookahead for parenthetical stripping, abbreviation
expansions (US→United States, NM→New Mexico), pronunciation fixes
- Inworld TTS: camelCase API fields, speakingRate per-voice overrides, retry logic
with exponential backoff (3 attempts)
- Footer redesign: SVG icons for social/podcast links across all pages
- Stats page: show "Rate us on Spotify" instead of "not public" placeholder
- New voices, expanded caller prompts and problem scenarios
- Social posting via Postiz, YouTube upload in publish pipeline
- Episode transcripts 15-25, terms page, sitemap updates
- Fix invoice script: match Timing totals using merged Task+App intervals
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