reference_id=<name> resolves against the DIRECTORY references/<name>/
(audio + same-basename .lab), not a flat references/<name>.wav. Voices
were staged flat with the per-name dirs left empty, so every
reference_id resolved to nothing and Fish fell back to its default
speaker — every dropdown voice produced byte-identical audio (proven:
Abigail == Imogen == no-ref, same text+seed). This was the real "no
accent" root cause, independent of the asset-engine "undefined" select
bug.
Server fix (applied to irv-ml1): populated references/<name>/<name>.wav
+ <name>.lab for all 32 voices; re-test confirms Imogen/Eleanor/
Beatrice/Abigail/no-ref now all distinct.
Durable hardening + record correction:
- playbook: normalize-layout step (flat <name>.wav -> nested dir, cp -u
idempotent, when-gated on count mismatch) + an A/B verify gate that
hard-fails the deploy if two reference_ids yield identical output.
- services.yaml: correct the reference_id resolution doc (dir + .lab,
not flat wav).
- README + persistent-memory: correct the "reference_id-by-name is THE
working path, verified" claim — it was a no-op until this fix; the
prior ECAPA 0.79 result came through the inline base64 path.
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