# Voice Clone Wishlist

Voices to prepare reference clips for.

## Ready

| Voice | Character / Show | Notes |
|-------|-----------------|-------|
| Rommie | Andromeda — ship AI / android | `/home/devilholk/Documents/rommie-sample.wav` — working well |
| Wilford Brimley (Harold W. Smith) | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) — head of CURE | Turned out well — gravelly authoritative delivery, dry clean speech |

## To Do

| Voice | Character / Show | Notes |
|-------|-----------------|-------|
| Fred Ward | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) — Remo Williams himself | Distinctive gravelly voice, same film as Brimley so similar source quality |
| Alan Scarfe | TNG (Romulan), Andromeda S5 (Flavin) | Deep, authoritative voice — hunt for quiet scenes without ship hum |
| John Fleck | Enterprise (Silik the Suliban) | Distinctive raspy voice — Suliban scenes may have atmosphere noise |
| Steve Bacic | Andromeda (Telemachus Rhade) | — |
| Alex Diakun | Andromeda (Perseid character, name ~"Atune"), Stargate SG-1 (science role) | Prolific Vancouver sci-fi character actor, often plays scientists/scholars — distinctive voice |
| Tim Russ (Tuvok) | Star Trek Voyager — Tuvok; also TNG "Starship Mine" as a human mercenary | Measured, deep Vulcan delivery — try ready room/quarters scenes for less ship hum. TNG villain role offers different vocal performance from same actor. |
| Unknown actress | Andromeda S4/S5 (Dylan's love interest), Babylon 5 (Mars rebellion leader) | Possibly Marjorie Monaghan (Number One in B5) — unconfirmed |
| Claudia Christian | Babylon 5 — Commander Ivanova | Current clip sounds too uptight — needs more emotional range. Find: (1) a self-introduction clip for correct name pronunciation (i-VA-no-va), (2) the "no boom today, boom tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow" monologue — dry dark humour, great prosody variation. Mix of serious and lighter moments gives the model more to work with. |

## Notes

- **Self-introduction in reference clip** — include a clip of the character saying their own name, so the model learns the correct pronunciation. Many characters have distinctive names with non-obvious stress. Introductory scenes ("I'm Commander Ivanova", "The name's Remmie") are ideal for this.
- Animated/cartoon voices (e.g. Darkwing Duck) don't clone well — too far outside natural human speech distribution
- Compressed/heavily post-processed audio (spaceship hum, background score) degrades results even after noise reduction
- OGG vs WAV quality difference is likely source quality, not encoding — soundfile handles both
- Voice cloning quality scales with both clip length and emotional range — varied prosody (questions, statements, different tones) gives the model more to anchor on than flat monotone