WIP: fix(hermes-voice): switch Atlas Piper TTS to hfc_female, bake amy as alternate #24

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Hermes Agent	e0f1a4504c	fix(hermes-voice): switch Atlas Piper TTS to hfc_female, bake amy as alternate Brad's 2026-08-20 decision: default the private Hermes chat TTS voice to a warmer, pleasant feminine voice (en_US-hfc_female-medium) instead of Lessac. en_US-amy-medium is baked into the same image as a selectable alternate so the choice can be revisited without another Jenkins build. Lessac models are kept (not deleted) since the task didn't require reclaiming image size; the image grows by ~120.6 MiB (2 medium voices, onnx+json, from the pinned rhasspy/piper-voices revision already used for lessac). The Piper server only reads HERMES_TTS_VOICE at process start; the "voice" field in the WebUI's request body is not consulted by the server (dockerfiles/hermes-jetson-tts-server.py:59-72). That WebUI string is aligned here for honesty, but the env var remains the effective control -- align image digest and env var rollout order (see PR description). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-20 17:28:55 +00:00

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fix(hermes-voice): switch Atlas Piper TTS to hfc_female, bake amy as alternate

Brad's 2026-08-20 decision: default the private Hermes chat TTS voice to a
warmer, pleasant feminine voice (en_US-hfc_female-medium) instead of Lessac.
en_US-amy-medium is baked into the same image as a selectable alternate so
the choice can be revisited without another Jenkins build. Lessac models are
kept (not deleted) since the task didn't require reclaiming image size; the
image grows by ~120.6 MiB (2 medium voices, onnx+json, from the pinned
rhasspy/piper-voices revision already used for lessac).

The Piper server only reads HERMES_TTS_VOICE at process start; the "voice"
field in the WebUI's request body is not consulted by the server
(dockerfiles/hermes-jetson-tts-server.py:59-72). That WebUI string is aligned
here for honesty, but the env var remains the effective control -- align
image digest and env var rollout order (see PR description).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-20 17:28:55 +00:00

WIP: fix(hermes-voice): switch Atlas Piper TTS to hfc_female, bake amy as alternate #24

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