Mirror the canonical EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md from vh/zonos-gateway (now carries
the provisional per-voice emotion presets baked as gateway 0.2.1) and capture
the axes-sweep → bake arc in persistent memory.
Created private vh/zonos-gateway on gitea, imported the previously-unversioned
~/zonos-gateway working tree (source + dials-first spec + voices). Updated the
stack README, spec §8, and the sister-repos table to point at the repo. Remaining
follow-up: CI + deploy key to wire the irv-ml1 deploy tree to the repo.
Canonical direction: emotion set by twisting raw dials per-utterance, not preset
selection. Presets demoted to optional examples. Spec covers the dial vocabulary
+ ranges, the emotion_cfg_scale 'deaf by 1.5' rule (NO cap — documented ceiling,
explicit over implicit), measured RTF cost, starting-point dial-sets, an LLM
client system-prompt snippet, and clone reference guidance (~15-24s, no
transcript). Follow-ups flagged: align dials.py cfg help/metadata, trim in-code
PRESETS pending usage check, stand up vh/zonos-gateway for version control.
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