- `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway 0.2.1 — voice-resolved emotion presets baked (provisional) from the axes sweep.**

After the axes sweep ([[reference_zonos_tts_stack]] + the `[2026-07-18] axes sweep`
Recent-decisions entry) rescued angry and confirmed startled-happy, the operator
green-lit baking the results as **provisional** gateway presets + docs. Shipped
`vh/zonos-gateway` **0.2.1** (main `8f1885b`, tag `v0.2.1`, PUSHED; deployed live
on irv-ml1 `:8890`).

**Design — voice-resolved, NOT global.** `resolve_preset(name, voice)` picks the
per-voice measured cell, because a single global preset is unsafe (dvalin ruling;
BritishFemale's *named* angry misfires as fear). Presets:
- `angry`, `happy`, `startled_happy` (+ aliases `surprised`, `startled` →
  startled_happy). All expressive (`accurate_mode:false`), cfg 1.5, pure-axes
  (no named sliders).
- Calibrated cells (the 3 default voices):
  - angry: AmF v-0.4/a+1.0 s1.0 (emo0.53/id0.685); BrF v-0.4/a+0.8 s1.0
    (emo0.99/id0.725, metric fear-clean); AmM **two-tier** — soft v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.0
    (0.23/id0.654) + drama v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.2 (1.0/id0.616 clean; strength is NOT a
    smooth knob on AmM, 1.0→1.2 is the window, past that flips to disgust).
  - happy / startled_happy: AmF v+0.6/a+0.8; AmM v+0.3/a+1.0; BrF v+0.6/a+1.0
    (happy~1.0, id 0.74-0.80; axes-happy keeps +0.15 id over the named happy slider).
  - `sad` = unchanged named-slider preset (not axes-tested).
- Uncalibrated voices (Cora + the 4 clones) → mid-region fallback until measured.
- Docs surface: `/v1/dials` exposes `voice_emotion_presets`; the FastAPI `/docs`
  description documents it; durable spec `docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md` (moved INTO
  the repo — was mirror-only); README table. 44 tests green.

**Repo-hygiene gotcha (fixed).** The local clone `~/development/zonos-gateway` and
gitea `vh/zonos-gateway` had **TWO UNRELATED git histories** (no merge-base) — gitea
held the voice-wav commits, the local clone held the code + no remote. Reconciled
by resetting local→origin/main, overlaying the 7 bake files, `uv lock`, commit,
push (fast-forward). Voices stay tracked; local now shares gitea's lineage + has
origin wired. **The deployed irv-ml1 tree `/opt/docker/compose/zonos-gateway` is
still NON-git** (hand-updated build context) — CI-wire remains an open follow-up.

**Provisional pending** ear-validation on emotion-congruent text (the neutral-text
audition was inconclusive: "they all sound different, hard to tell"). Follow-ups:
sad axes/text pass on the 3 voices; congruent-text pass; clone-char emotion rows.
Tools `~/development/zonos-tools/{axes_sweep,strength_ladder,gen_auditions,dial-in-studio}.py`
(run ON irv-ml1; scoring env `uv run --with resemblyzer --with funasr --with "numpy<2"
--with soundfile --with requests --with "setuptools<80" --with torchaudio`).