Parts 3–5 — VO integration notes (PROTOTYPE TTS)
Label: PROTOTYPE TTS (en-US-GuyNeural) — not teammate VO · not Quantic submit. Public index: Parts 3–5 materials (§2 silent · §2b VO-integrated). Honesty: unchanged from scripts (NFR-1 / NFR-2 met via probes #124 / #126; NFR-7 Partial; staging #57 not forever; Futures parked; no FR-19). Built: 2026-09-06 Europe/Berlin (UTC+2)
TTS
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | edge-tts (pip) |
| Voice | en-US-GuyNeural (clear English, technical) |
| Rate | +0% |
| Source lines | Timed lines (technical — IDs OK) from Part 3 VO · Part 4 VO · Part 5 VO (not the plain-English twins) |
| Pack-local scripts / wav | Coordinator box only — not published on this site. Pages hosts the muxed mp4s. |
| Pause between paragraphs | ~900 ms silence |
Duration match
| Part | Silent video | Raw VO | Mux strategy | VO-integrated mp4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Variant B | silent ~180.02 s | ~91.54 s | Pad audio with silence (apad) to video length | VO ~180.02 s |
| 4 Variant C | silent ~180.02 s | ~101.21 s | Pad audio with silence (apad) to video length | VO ~180.02 s |
| 5 Shared close | silent ~60.02 s | ~64.50 s | Pad video last-frame (tpad clone) ~4.48 s (under 5 s rule) | VO ~64.50 s |
Silent *-silent.mp4 files were not overwritten.
Outputs (ffprobe)
`clips/part3-variant-b-prototype-vo.mp4`
- Format duration: 180.022 s
- Video: H.264 1280×720 ~180.000 s
- Audio: AAC ~180.011 s (VO then silence pad)
`clips/part4-variant-c-prototype-vo.mp4`
- Format duration: 180.022 s
- Video: H.264 1280×720 ~180.000 s
- Audio: AAC ~180.011 s (VO then silence pad)
`clips/part5-shared-close-prototype-vo.mp4`
- Format duration: 64.500 s
- Video: H.264 1280×720 ~64.467 s (original ~60 s + last-frame pad)
- Audio: AAC ~64.500 s (full technical close script)
What this is / is not
| Is | Is not |
|---|---|
| Rehearsal / timing prototype with machine VO | Quantic submission film |
| Technical ID-ok narration from the VO markdown | Teammate (Claude/Hiren) recorded VO |
| Same honesty lines as the Part 5 script | Old Unknown NFR-1/2 wording |
Recorded teammate VO remains Unknown until Claude / Hiren / shared records.
End VO notes · PROTOTYPE TTS only.