Old Tam rewritten and re-voiced (Gitea #3): a new script in his own voice, an old West Country farmer (Qwen3-TTS cloning one recording, so he's the same man in every line), each line's best take chosen by checking its words with Whisper

tools/voice/old_tam/voice.json

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+{
+  "_doc": "Old Tam's voice (tools/voice/make_voice.py). reference.wav was made once by Qwen3-TTS VoiceDesign (mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign-bf16) from `description`, saying `reference_text`; Paul picked it (Nov 2026). Every line is then spoken by the Base model cloning that recording, so it's the same voice throughout. Change any of this and every line is re-made.",
+  "description": "An elderly, toothless-sounding old man with a thin, reedy, quavering voice and a broad West Country English accent, like an eccentric old farmer. Chuckling, rambling and full of mischief, a little out of breath.",
+  "model": "mlx-community/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-bf16",
+  "reference_audio": "reference.wav",
+  "reference_text": "Ha! Awake at last! Washed up on my island, eh? Well, stretch your legs: W, A, S and D to walk, the mouse to look. Shift if you're in a hurry."
+}