Better voices

video/tts/synth.py

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ import urllib.request
 import wave
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
 
 DEFAULT_SERVER = "http://host.docker.internal:8004"
 
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ def _post(url: str, payload: dict, timeout: float) -> bytes:
         return response.read()
 
 
-def _get_json(url: str, timeout: float) -> dict:
+def _get_json(url: str, timeout: float) -> Any:
     with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=timeout) as response:
         return json.loads(response.read())
 
@@ -438,14 +439,26 @@ def check_voice_exists(server: str, voice: str) -> None:
 
     /tts does reject an unknown predefined voice, but this names the mistake
     and lists the alternatives instead of surfacing a server stack trace.
+
+    Ask /get_predefined_voices, NOT /v1/audio/voices. The latter looks right but
+    answers a different, wider list (it also carries reference clips and the
+    bundled sample pack) and it lags behind uploads: on 2026-07-15 it omitted
+    French-F.wav and Hungarian-F.wav while /tts synthesized both happily. So it
+    fails a perfectly good voice and blames the storyboard. The filenames from
+    /get_predefined_voices are exactly the `predefined_voice_id` vocabulary.
     """
     try:
-        voices = _get_json(f"{server}/v1/audio/voices", INFO_TIMEOUT_S).get("voices", [])
+        listed = _get_json(f"{server}/get_predefined_voices", INFO_TIMEOUT_S)
     except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
         return  # Non-fatal: /tts still validates the name.
+    voices = sorted(
+        str(entry["filename"])
+        for entry in listed
+        if isinstance(entry, dict) and entry.get("filename")
+    )
     if voices and voice not in voices:
         raise SystemExit(
-            f"[synth] unknown predefined voice {voice!r}. Available: {', '.join(sorted(voices))}"
+            f"[synth] unknown predefined voice {voice!r}. Available: {', '.join(voices)}"
         )