nixamp 0.23.5 → 0.23.6

package/dist/voices.js

@@ -4,21 +4,60 @@
  * A trollbox line is text; the party line is a phone call. Reading one into
  * the other needs a voice, and the voice should be theirs as far as a
  * machine can manage: a man's line in a man's voice, a woman's in a woman's,
- * anybody else's in whichever they asked for. Where that comes from, in
- * order: the voice they set on their nixamp account; their OpenProfile
+ * and two people in one room in two different voices, so a caller can tell
+ * who is talking without being told every time. Where the sex comes from,
+ * in order: the voice they set on their nixamp account; their OpenProfile
  * (`Voice`, then `Gender`, then `Pronouns`; see logicsrc.com/openprofile);
- * and failing both, one picked from their id, so the same person is always
- * the same voice even when nobody was told which.
+ * and failing both, nothing, in which case they get a voice from the whole
+ * pool. Which voice within the pool is picked from their account id, so the
+ * same person is always the same voice.
  *
- * The voices are Telnyx's Kokoro ones: an open-weights model, no bill beyond
- * the call. ElevenLabs or anything else Telnyx speaks is a configuration
- * away, per sex, because "better" and "paid" are the same word there.
+ * Two pools. Telnyx's Kokoro voices are an open-weights model with no bill
+ * beyond the call: eleven women, eight men, American English. ElevenLabs
+ * reads better and bills per character; Telnyx speaks it when the account
+ * holds an integration secret with the ElevenLabs key, and this file uses
+ * it when that secret exists unless told to stay with Kokoro. Both pools
+ * can be replaced from the environment.
  */
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-/** Kokoro, through Telnyx: af_heart is the default woman, am_adam the default man. */
+/** Kokoro through Telnyx: American English, the women then the men. Free. */
+export const KOKORO_FEMALE = ["af_heart", "af_bella", "af_nicole", "af_sarah", "af_sky", "af_nova", "af_jessica", "af_kore", "af_river", "af_alloy", "af_aoede"]
+    .map((name) => `Telnyx.KokoroTTS.${name}`);
+export const KOKORO_MALE = ["am_adam", "am_michael", "am_echo", "am_eric", "am_fenrir", "am_liam", "am_onyx", "am_puck"]
+    .map((name) => `Telnyx.KokoroTTS.${name}`);
+/**
+ * ElevenLabs' premade voices, as `ElevenLabs.<voice id>`, by the gender
+ * ElevenLabs labels them with (read off the account on 2026-09-13). The
+ * names are for whoever reads this file; Telnyx only ever sees the id.
+ */
+export const ELEVENLABS_FEMALE = [
+    "ElevenLabs.EXAVITQu4vr4xnSDxMaL", // Sarah
+    "ElevenLabs.FGY2WhTYpPnrIDTdsKH5", // Laura
+    "ElevenLabs.Xb7hH8MSUJpSbSDYk0k2", // Alice
+    "ElevenLabs.XrExE9yKIg1WjnnlVkGX", // Matilda
+    "ElevenLabs.cgSgspJ2msm6clMCkdW9", // Jessica
+    "ElevenLabs.hpp4J3VqNfWAUOO0d1Us", // Bella
+    "ElevenLabs.pFZP5JQG7iQjIQuC4Bku", // Lily
+];
+export const ELEVENLABS_MALE = [
+    "ElevenLabs.CwhRBWXzGAHq8TQ4Fs17", // Roger
+    "ElevenLabs.IKne3meq5aSn9XLyUdCD", // Charlie
+    "ElevenLabs.JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb", // George
+    "ElevenLabs.N2lVS1w4EtoT3dr4eOWO", // Callum
+    "ElevenLabs.SOYHLrjzK2X1ezoPC6cr", // Harry
+    "ElevenLabs.TX3LPaxmHKxFdv7VOQHJ", // Liam
+    "ElevenLabs.bIHbv24MWmeRgasZH58o", // Will
+    "ElevenLabs.cjVigY5qzO86Huf0OWal", // Eric
+    "ElevenLabs.iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B", // Chris
+    "ElevenLabs.nPczCjzI2devNBz1zQrb", // Brian
+    "ElevenLabs.onwK4e9ZLuTAKqWW03F9", // Daniel
+    "ElevenLabs.pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB", // Adam
+    "ElevenLabs.pqHfZKP75CvOlQylNhV4", // Bill
+];
+/** Kept for the tests and anybody who wants one voice per sex: the first of each pool. */
 export const DEFAULT_VOICES = {
-    female: "Telnyx.KokoroTTS.af_heart",
-    male: "Telnyx.KokoroTTS.am_adam",
+    female: KOKORO_FEMALE[0],
+    male: KOKORO_MALE[0],
 };
 /** The word a person used for themselves, as a voice: female, male, or nothing to go on. */
 export function voiceKindOf(value) {
@@ -74,32 +113,122 @@ export function readProfileVoice(markdown) {
     }
     return found;
 }
+/** A stable pick from a list for an id: the same id, the same pick, every time. */
+function pickFor(userId, pool) {
+    const digest = createHash("sha1").update(userId).digest();
+    const index = (digest[0] << 8 | digest[1]) % pool.length;
+    return pool[index];
+}
+/** The pools as one voice per sex, for callers that still think that way. */
+function firstOf(voices) {
+    return { provider: "custom", female: [voices.female], male: [voices.male] };
+}
 /**
- * The Telnyx voice for somebody, from what is known about them. A voice
- * named outright (`ElevenLabs.…`, `Telnyx.KokoroTTS.…`, `Polly.…`) is used
- * as written; a sex picks the configured voice for it; nothing at all
- * picks one by the account id, so it stays the same tomorrow.
+ * The voice for somebody, from what is known about them. A voice named
+ * outright (`ElevenLabs.…`, `Telnyx.KokoroTTS.…`, `Polly.…`) is used as
+ * written; a sex picks from that sex's pool by the account id; nothing at
+ * all picks from both pools the same way, so it stays the same tomorrow.
+ * Settings ride along when the voice is an ElevenLabs one and the pools
+ * know the secret.
  */
-export function telnyxVoiceFor(who, voices = DEFAULT_VOICES) {
+export function telnyxVoiceFor(who, pools = { provider: "kokoro", female: KOKORO_FEMALE, male: KOKORO_MALE }) {
+    return spokenVoiceFor(who, "female" in pools && typeof pools.female === "string" ? firstOf(pools) : pools).voice;
+}
+export function spokenVoiceFor(who, pools) {
     const asked = (who.voice ?? "").trim();
-    if (asked.includes("."))
-        return asked;
     const fromProfile = who.profile?.voice.trim() ?? "";
-    if (fromProfile.includes("."))
-        return fromProfile;
-    const kind = voiceKindOf(asked) || voiceKindOf(fromProfile) || voiceKindOf(who.profile?.gender) || voiceKindOf(who.profile?.pronouns);
-    if (kind)
-        return voices[kind];
-    const digit = createHash("sha1").update(who.userId).digest()[0];
-    return digit % 2 === 0 ? voices.female : voices.male;
+    const named = asked.includes(".") ? asked : fromProfile.includes(".") ? fromProfile : "";
+    let voice;
+    if (named) {
+        voice = named;
+    }
+    else {
+        const kind = voiceKindOf(asked) || voiceKindOf(fromProfile) || voiceKindOf(who.profile?.gender) || voiceKindOf(who.profile?.pronouns);
+        const pool = kind === "female" ? pools.female : kind === "male" ? pools.male : [...pools.female, ...pools.male];
+        voice = pool.length > 0 ? pickFor(who.userId, pool) : DEFAULT_VOICES.female;
+    }
+    return voice.startsWith("ElevenLabs.") && pools.settings ? { voice, settings: pools.settings } : { voice };
 }
-/** The voices to use per sex, from the environment when it says so. */
+/** The voices to use per sex, from the environment when it says so. Kept for one-voice callers. */
 export function voicesFromEnv(env = process.env) {
     return {
         female: env["NIXAMP_VOICE_FEMALE"] || DEFAULT_VOICES.female,
         male: env["NIXAMP_VOICE_MALE"] || DEFAULT_VOICES.male,
     };
 }
+function listFrom(value) {
+    return (value ?? "").split(",").map((one) => one.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+}
+/**
+ * The pools this deployment speaks with. `NIXAMP_VOICES_FEMALE` and
+ * `NIXAMP_VOICES_MALE` (comma lists of Telnyx voice ids) win outright;
+ * `NIXAMP_VOICE_FEMALE` / `NIXAMP_VOICE_MALE` name one voice per sex; else
+ * ElevenLabs when the account holds the secret for it and `NIXAMP_TTS` is
+ * not `kokoro`; else Kokoro, which is free.
+ */
+export function poolsFrom(env, elevenLabsSecret) {
+    const female = listFrom(env["NIXAMP_VOICES_FEMALE"]);
+    const male = listFrom(env["NIXAMP_VOICES_MALE"]);
+    const settings = elevenLabsSecret ? { api_key_ref: elevenLabsSecret } : undefined;
+    if (female.length > 0 || male.length > 0) {
+        return { provider: "custom", female: female.length > 0 ? female : KOKORO_FEMALE, male: male.length > 0 ? male : KOKORO_MALE, ...(settings ? { settings } : {}) };
+    }
+    if (env["NIXAMP_VOICE_FEMALE"] || env["NIXAMP_VOICE_MALE"]) {
+        const one = voicesFromEnv(env);
+        return { provider: "custom", female: [one.female], male: [one.male], ...(settings ? { settings } : {}) };
+    }
+    if (settings && (env["NIXAMP_TTS"] ?? "").toLowerCase() !== "kokoro") {
+        return { provider: "elevenlabs", female: ELEVENLABS_FEMALE, male: ELEVENLABS_MALE, settings };
+    }
+    return { provider: "kokoro", female: KOKORO_FEMALE, male: KOKORO_MALE };
+}
+/**
+ * Whether Telnyx holds an ElevenLabs key for this account: an integration
+ * secret whose identifier is `elevenlabs` (or what NIXAMP_ELEVENLABS_SECRET
+ * names). Asked once, at the first line, and remembered; no key means the
+ * free voices, and no Railway variable has to be set for either.
+ */
+export class Voices {
+    options;
+    secret = null;
+    constructor(options) {
+        this.options = options;
+    }
+    get env() {
+        return this.options.env ?? process.env;
+    }
+    async elevenLabsSecret() {
+        const wanted = (this.env["NIXAMP_ELEVENLABS_SECRET"] ?? "elevenlabs").trim();
+        if (!wanted || !this.options.telnyxApiKey)
+            return null;
+        try {
+            const response = await (this.options.fetcher ?? fetch)(`${this.options.telnyxApi ?? "https://api.telnyx.com/v2"}/integration_secrets?page[size]=250`, {
+                headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${this.options.telnyxApiKey}` },
+                signal: AbortSignal.timeout(8000),
+            });
+            if (!response.ok)
+                return null;
+            const body = (await response.json());
+            const found = (body.data ?? []).some((one) => one.identifier === wanted);
+            this.options.onEvent?.(found
+                ? `  voices: ElevenLabs, through Telnyx secret "${wanted}"`
+                : "  voices: Kokoro (no ElevenLabs secret on the Telnyx account)");
+            return found ? wanted : null;
+        }
+        catch {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+    /** The pools, resolved once. A failed look at Telnyx is asked again next time. */
+    async pools() {
+        this.secret ??= this.elevenLabsSecret().then((secret) => {
+            if (secret === null)
+                this.secret = null;
+            return secret;
+        });
+        return poolsFrom(this.env, await this.secret);
+    }
+}
 /** What a line sounds like read aloud: who said it, then what. */
 export function spokenLine(handle, body) {
     const said = body.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nixamp",
-  "version": "0.23.5",
+  "version": "0.23.6",
   "description": "It really whips the terminal's ass. A Winamp-shaped audio player for your terminal.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",

package/src/main.ts

@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ const HELP = `nixamp — it really whips the terminal's ass.
   nixamp mcp                     speak Model Context Protocol on stdin, for an agent
   nixamp transcribe FILE [--say SERVER]  the words in a recording, and into a trollbox
   nixamp transcript --channel ID [--follow]  what a channel is saying, as it says it
+  nixamp profile [--handle H] [--voice V] [--profile URL]  who the rooms know you as
+  nixamp voices                  the voices a line is read in on the phone
   nixamp opendir list|add|remove  folders found on the web, published for everyone
   nixamp update [version]        re-run the installer, keeping your choices
   nixamp uninstall [--yes]       remove everything the installer created
@@ -268,7 +270,8 @@ It offers the watch party tools: list them, read one, put one on the air,
 say where playback is, end it. And the room tools: transcribe a recording
 (transcribe_audio, which can post the words straight into a trollbox), say a
 line in a room (trollbox_say), read a room (trollbox_read), read what a
-channel is saying (transcript_read). It acts as
+channel is saying (transcript_read), and who you are in the rooms and how
+you sound on the phone (profile_get, profile_set, voices_list). It acts as
 whoever this machine is signed in as, so \`nixamp login\` (or NIXAMP_TOKEN)
 comes first.
 
@@ -289,6 +292,20 @@ sign-in (\`nixamp login\`) and nothing else. Up to a minute at a time.
 
 The same ear is behind the microphone button in every nixamp.com trollbox,
 and behind the transcribe_audio tool of \`nixamp mcp\`.
+`,
+  profile: `nixamp profile — who the rooms know you as.
+
+  nixamp profile                       your handle, voice and OpenProfile
+  nixamp profile --handle chovy        the name on every line you say
+  nixamp profile --voice female        the voice your lines are read in on the phone:
+                                       female, male, any, or a voice id (see \`nixamp voices\`)
+  nixamp profile --profile URL         your OpenProfile.md; its Voice, Gender or Pronouns
+                                       decide the voice when you set none here
+  nixamp voices                        the voices this nixamp.com reads lines in
+
+When somebody is on the phone in a live room, every trollbox line is read to
+them in the author's voice: the one set here, else the OpenProfile's, else
+one picked for the account and kept. Two people in a room are two voices.
 `,
   transcript: `nixamp transcript — what a channel is saying, written down.
 
@@ -502,6 +519,16 @@ export async function main(): Promise<void> {
     process.exitCode = await party(rest);
     return;
   }
+  if (first === "profile" || first === "persona") {
+    const { profile } = await import("./profile.ts");
+    process.exitCode = await profile(rest);
+    return;
+  }
+  if (first === "voices") {
+    const { voices } = await import("./profile.ts");
+    process.exitCode = await voices(rest);
+    return;
+  }
   if (first === "transcript" || first === "captions") {
     const { transcript } = await import("./transcript.ts");
     process.exitCode = await transcript(rest);

package/src/mcp.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { clock, type PartyRow } from "./party.ts";
 import { readSession } from "./session.ts";
 import { askToHear, wavOf } from "./transcribe.ts";
 import { readTranscript } from "./transcript.ts";
+import { personaLines, readPersona, readVoices, writePersona } from "./profile.ts";
 
 export const PROTOCOL_VERSION = "2025-06-18";
 
@@ -142,6 +143,29 @@ export const TOOLS: ToolDefinition[] = [
       required: ["url"],
     },
   },
+  {
+    name: "profile_get",
+    description: "Who the rooms know this account as: its handle, the voice its trollbox lines are read in on the phone, the OpenProfile URL, and the voice that would be used right now.",
+    inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: {} },
+  },
+  {
+    name: "profile_set",
+    description:
+      "Set this account's handle, the voice its lines are read in on the phone (female, male, any, or a voice id from voices_list), and/or its OpenProfile URL (whose Voice, Gender or Pronouns pick the voice when none is set). Any one may be given alone.",
+    inputSchema: {
+      type: "object",
+      properties: {
+        handle: { ...STRING, description: "Letters, digits and hyphens, 2 to 30 characters." },
+        voice: { ...STRING, description: "female, male, any, or a voice id such as ElevenLabs.pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB." },
+        profile: { ...STRING, description: "The URL of an OpenProfile.md, or an empty string to clear it." },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+  {
+    name: "voices_list",
+    description: "The voices trollbox lines can be read in on the phone: the provider in use and the women's and men's voice ids.",
+    inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: {} },
+  },
   {
     name: "trollbox_read",
     description: "The recent lines in a live room's trollbox, oldest first: who said what, and when.",
@@ -335,6 +359,29 @@ export async function callTool(name: string, args: Record<string, unknown>, opti
       return text(got.answer.recent.map((line) => `${new Date(line.at).toISOString()}  ${line.text}`).join("\n"));
     }
 
+    if (name === "profile_get") {
+      const answer = await readPersona(session, send);
+      if (!answer.ok) return failed(answer.error);
+      return text(personaLines(answer.body).join("\n"));
+    }
+
+    if (name === "profile_set") {
+      const wanted: { handle?: string; voice?: string; profile?: string } = {};
+      if (typeof args["handle"] === "string") wanted.handle = args["handle"];
+      if (typeof args["voice"] === "string") wanted.voice = args["voice"];
+      if (typeof args["profile"] === "string") wanted.profile = args["profile"];
+      if (Object.keys(wanted).length === 0) return failed("Set what? Pass handle, voice and/or profile.");
+      const answer = await writePersona(session, wanted, send);
+      if (!answer.ok) return failed(answer.error);
+      return text(personaLines(answer.body).join("\n"));
+    }
+
+    if (name === "voices_list") {
+      const answer = await readVoices(session, send);
+      if (!answer.ok) return failed(answer.error);
+      return text([`Voices: ${answer.body.provider}.`, "Women:", ...answer.body.female.map((one) => `  ${one}`), "Men:", ...answer.body.male.map((one) => `  ${one}`)].join("\n"));
+    }
+
     if (name === "trollbox_read") {
       if (!server) return failed("Which room? Pass the server's address.");
       const url = new URL(`${site}/api/v1/trollbox`);

package/src/partyline.ts

@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ export class PartyLine {
    * voice of whoever typed them. False when nobody is on the phone there,
    * which is most of the time and costs nothing.
    */
-  async say(code: string, text: string, voice: string): Promise<boolean> {
+  async say(code: string, text: string, voice: string, settings?: { api_key_ref: string }): Promise<boolean> {
     const room = this.rooms.get(code);
     if (!room || room.conferenceId === null || room.callers === 0) return false;
     const said = text.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim().slice(0, 500);
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ export class PartyLine {
     const answer = await this.request(`/conferences/${encodeURIComponent(room.conferenceId)}/actions/speak`, {
       payload: said,
       voice: voice || this.voice,
+      // An ElevenLabs voice needs the key Telnyx holds for it, by name.
+      ...(settings ? { voice_settings: settings } : {}),
     });
     return answer !== null;
   }

package/src/profile.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+/**
+ * `nixamp profile` and `nixamp voices` -- who the rooms know you as, from
+ * the terminal, and the voices a line can be read in.
+ *
+ * The same route the Account panel uses (`/api/v1/me/handle`), signed in
+ * as this machine is. The MCP tools of the same names are these functions
+ * with a different front.
+ */
+import { readSession, type Session } from "./session.ts";
+
+const HELP = `nixamp profile — who the rooms know you as.
+
+  nixamp profile                       your handle, voice and OpenProfile
+  nixamp profile --handle chovy        the name on every line you say
+  nixamp profile --voice female        the voice your lines are read in on the phone:
+                                       female, male, any, or a voice id (see \`nixamp voices\`)
+  nixamp profile --profile URL         your OpenProfile.md; its Voice, Gender or Pronouns
+                                       decide the voice when you set none here
+  nixamp profile --json                as JSON
+  nixamp voices                        the voices this nixamp.com reads lines in
+
+When somebody is on the phone in a live room, every trollbox line is read
+to them in the author's voice: the one set here, else the OpenProfile's,
+else one picked for the account and kept. Two people in a room are two
+different voices.
+`;
+
+export interface Persona {
+  handle: string;
+  voice: string;
+  profile: string;
+  chosen: boolean;
+  /** The voice a line of theirs would be read in right now. */
+  spoken?: string;
+}
+
+export interface Pools {
+  provider: string;
+  female: string[];
+  male: string[];
+}
+
+export type Answer<T> = { ok: true; body: T } | { ok: false; status: number; error: string };
+
+function headers(session: Pick<Session, "token">): Record<string, string> {
+  return { authorization: `Bearer ${session.token}`, "content-type": "application/json" };
+}
+
+export async function readPersona(session: Pick<Session, "site" | "token">, fetcher: typeof fetch = fetch): Promise<Answer<Persona>> {
+  try {
+    const response = await fetcher(`${session.site.replace(/\/+$/, "")}/api/v1/me/handle`, { headers: headers(session) });
+    const body = (await response.json().catch(() => ({}))) as Persona & { error?: string };
+    if (!response.ok) return { ok: false, status: response.status, error: body.error ?? `nixamp answered ${response.status}` };
+    return { ok: true, body };
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { ok: false, status: 0, error: `could not reach ${session.site}: ${(error as Error).message}` };
+  }
+}
+
+export async function writePersona(
+  session: Pick<Session, "site" | "token">,
+  wanted: { handle?: string; voice?: string; profile?: string },
+  fetcher: typeof fetch = fetch,
+): Promise<Answer<Persona>> {
+  try {
+    const response = await fetcher(`${session.site.replace(/\/+$/, "")}/api/v1/me/handle`, {
+      method: "PUT",
+      headers: headers(session),
+      body: JSON.stringify(wanted),
+    });
+    const body = (await response.json().catch(() => ({}))) as Persona & { error?: string };
+    if (!response.ok) return { ok: false, status: response.status, error: body.error ?? `nixamp answered ${response.status}` };
+    return { ok: true, body };
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { ok: false, status: 0, error: `could not reach ${session.site}: ${(error as Error).message}` };
+  }
+}
+
+export async function readVoices(session: Pick<Session, "site" | "token">, fetcher: typeof fetch = fetch): Promise<Answer<Pools>> {
+  try {
+    const response = await fetcher(`${session.site.replace(/\/+$/, "")}/api/v1/voices`, { headers: headers(session) });
+    const body = (await response.json().catch(() => ({}))) as Pools & { error?: string };
+    if (!response.ok) return { ok: false, status: response.status, error: body.error ?? `nixamp answered ${response.status}` };
+    return { ok: true, body };
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { ok: false, status: 0, error: `could not reach ${session.site}: ${(error as Error).message}` };
+  }
+}
+
+/** A persona, as the terminal says it. */
+export function personaLines(persona: Persona): string[] {
+  const voice = persona.voice === "female" ? "a woman's voice"
+    : persona.voice === "male" ? "a man's voice"
+      : persona.voice ? `the voice ${persona.voice}`
+        : persona.profile ? "whatever your OpenProfile says, else one picked for you"
+          : "one picked for you";
+  return [
+    persona.chosen ? `You are ${persona.handle} in every room.` : `Rooms call you ${persona.handle} until you pick a handle (--handle).`,
+    `On the phone your lines are read in ${voice}${persona.spoken ? ` (${persona.spoken})` : ""}.`,
+    persona.profile ? `OpenProfile: ${persona.profile}` : "No OpenProfile set (--profile URL).",
+  ];
+}
+
+function flag(argv: string[], name: string): string | undefined {
+  const at = argv.indexOf(name);
+  return at === -1 ? undefined : argv[at + 1];
+}
+
+export interface ProfileDeps {
+  fetcher?: typeof fetch;
+  session?: Pick<Session, "site" | "token"> | null;
+}
+
+export async function profile(argv: string[], deps: ProfileDeps = {}): Promise<number> {
+  if (argv.includes("--help") || argv.includes("-h") || argv[0] === "help") {
+    console.log(HELP);
+    return 0;
+  }
+  const session = deps.session === undefined ? readSession() : deps.session;
+  if (session === null) {
+    console.error("nixamp: not signed in. Try `nixamp login`.");
+    return 1;
+  }
+  const fetcher = deps.fetcher ?? fetch;
+  const wanted: { handle?: string; voice?: string; profile?: string } = {};
+  for (const [name, key] of [["--handle", "handle"], ["--voice", "voice"], ["--profile", "profile"]] as const) {
+    if (argv.includes(name)) {
+      const value = flag(argv, name);
+      if (value === undefined || value.startsWith("--")) {
+        console.error(`nixamp: ${name} needs a value.`);
+        return 64;
+      }
+      wanted[key] = value;
+    }
+  }
+  const answer = Object.keys(wanted).length > 0 ? await writePersona(session, wanted, fetcher) : await readPersona(session, fetcher);
+  if (!answer.ok) {
+    console.error(`nixamp: ${answer.error}`);
+    return 1;
+  }
+  if (argv.includes("--json")) {
+    console.log(JSON.stringify(answer.body, null, 2));
+    return 0;
+  }
+  for (const line of personaLines(answer.body)) console.log(line);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+export async function voices(argv: string[], deps: ProfileDeps = {}): Promise<number> {
+  if (argv.includes("--help") || argv.includes("-h")) {
+    console.log(HELP);
+    return 0;
+  }
+  const session = deps.session === undefined ? readSession() : deps.session;
+  if (session === null) {
+    console.error("nixamp: not signed in. Try `nixamp login`.");
+    return 1;
+  }
+  const answer = await readVoices(session, deps.fetcher ?? fetch);
+  if (!answer.ok) {
+    console.error(`nixamp: ${answer.error}`);
+    return 1;
+  }
+  if (argv.includes("--json")) {
+    console.log(JSON.stringify(answer.body, null, 2));
+    return 0;
+  }
+  console.log(`Voices: ${answer.body.provider}. Set one with \`nixamp profile --voice <id>\`, or --voice female/male to be given one of these and keep it.`);
+  console.log("  Women:");
+  for (const one of answer.body.female) console.log(`    ${one}`);
+  console.log("  Men:");
+  for (const one of answer.body.male) console.log(`    ${one}`);
+  return 0;
+}

package/src/server.ts

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ import { Rooms } from "./rooms.ts";
 import { Trollbox, TrollboxError, fallbackHandle, roomFor } from "./trollbox.ts";
 import { MAX_BYTES as SPEECH_BYTES, Speech, SpeechError, isWav, languageOf } from "./speech.ts";
 import { Captions } from "./captions.ts";
-import { Profiles, spokenLine, telnyxVoiceFor, voicesFromEnv } from "./voices.ts";
+import { Profiles, Voices, spokenLine, spokenVoiceFor } from "./voices.ts";
 import { confirm, DEFAULT_DIRECTORY, Publisher } from "./publish.ts";
 import {
   applyRemoteConfig,
@@ -1736,6 +1736,8 @@ export interface HandlerOptions {
   speech?: Speech;
   /** Other people's OpenProfiles, for the voice their lines are read in. */
   profiles?: Profiles;
+  /** The voices lines are read in: ElevenLabs when Telnyx holds the key, Kokoro otherwise. */
+  voices?: Voices;
   /** Tickets: a paid pass to one event's room. Absent means every show is free. */
   tickets?: Tickets;
   /**
@@ -2728,11 +2730,28 @@ export function createHandler(engine: Engine, options: HandlerOptions) {
       void (async () => {
         const persona = (await options.handles?.persona(authorId)) ?? { handle, voice: "", profile: "" };
         const profile = persona.profile && options.profiles ? await options.profiles.voiceOf(persona.profile) : null;
-        const voice = telnyxVoiceFor({ userId: authorId, voice: persona.voice, profile }, voicesFromEnv());
-        await partyLine.say(code, spokenLine(handle, body), voice);
+        const pools = options.voices ? await options.voices.pools() : { provider: "kokoro" as const, female: [], male: [] };
+        const spoken = spokenVoiceFor({ userId: authorId, voice: persona.voice, profile }, pools);
+        await partyLine.say(code, spokenLine(handle, body), spoken.voice, spoken.settings);
       })().catch(() => undefined);
     };
 
+    /*
+     * The voices a line can be read in, for whoever wants to pick one by
+     * id: which provider, and the women's and the men's pools. Signed in,
+     * like the profile it feeds.
+     */
+    if (path === "/api/v1/voices" && options.accounts) {
+      const who = await options.accounts.whoIs(tokenFrom(request.headers));
+      if (who === null) {
+        json(response, 401, { error: "not signed in" });
+        return;
+      }
+      const pools = options.voices ? await options.voices.pools() : { provider: "kokoro" as const, female: [], male: [] };
+      json(response, 200, { provider: pools.provider, female: pools.female, male: pools.male });
+      return;
+    }
+
     /*
      * The trollbox: the chat for one live room, keyed by the server and
      * the channel so every viewer of a stream is in the same box whichever
@@ -2878,7 +2897,12 @@ export function createHandler(engine: Engine, options: HandlerOptions) {
       // be sent alone; what is not sent is kept.
       if (request.method === "GET") {
         const persona = await handles.persona(who.id);
-        json(response, 200, { ...persona, handle: persona.handle || fallbackHandle(who.id), chosen: persona.handle !== "" });
+        // And the voice a line of theirs would be read in right now, so the
+        // panel and the CLI can say it rather than describe the rule.
+        const pools = options.voices ? await options.voices.pools() : null;
+        const profile = persona.profile && options.profiles ? await options.profiles.voiceOf(persona.profile) : null;
+        const spoken = pools ? spokenVoiceFor({ userId: who.id, voice: persona.voice, profile }, pools).voice : "";
+        json(response, 200, { ...persona, handle: persona.handle || fallbackHandle(who.id), chosen: persona.handle !== "", spoken });
         return;
       }
       if (request.method === "PUT" || request.method === "POST") {
@@ -5870,8 +5894,14 @@ export async function serve(argv: string[], version = "0.1.0"): Promise<void> {
     ...(rooms ? { rooms } : {}),
     ...(trollbox ? { trollbox } : {}),
     ...(speech ? { speech } : {}),
-    // Other people's OpenProfiles, read for the voice a line is spoken in.
+    // Other people's OpenProfiles, read for the voice a line is spoken in,
+    // and the voices to speak in: ElevenLabs when the Telnyx account holds
+    // the key for it (an integration secret named "elevenlabs"), Kokoro
+    // otherwise. Nothing to configure on the deployment for either.
     ...(accounts ? { profiles: new Profiles() } : {}),
+    ...(accounts && process.env["TELNYX_API_KEY"]
+      ? { voices: new Voices({ telnyxApiKey: process.env["TELNYX_API_KEY"], onEvent: (message) => console.log(message) }) }
+      : {}),
     ...(tickets ? { tickets } : {}),
     ...(authServer ? { authServer } : {}),
     ...(parties ? { parties } : {}),