Narration voice candidates

Picked 2026-11-08: bm_george (Kokoro, free, local). Every narration is recorded in it; --voice in walkthrough.py switches. The test passage is part 1 of the bells episode.

Episode one, the bells. One component of the grid: the bells of the Peter and Paul belfry, which in the model set the frequency for the whole district. Nothing downstream runs without them. Here is what is documented, what the model claims, and what is still open. At the end we zoom out into the district they belong to.

Higgsfield, the passage (5 voices)

Other Higgsfield male voices (39), their own samples

Say a name and I record the passage in it (about 2 credits a clip).

Kokoro (9 voices, free, local)

Rebuilt by make_voice_sheet.py. Gemini TTS male voices wait on the billing balance; ElevenLabs and OpenAI TTS not recorded.