How I Gave My Kiosk a Voice Clone Trained on 213 Lines of Reach Cortana
What this is: the implementation guide for the voice arc of my family voice kiosk. I replaced the kiosk’s generic TTS voice with a voice clone of Reach Cortana, trained on 213 clean voice lines extracted from my own legally-owned copy of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The shipped path has four parts: extracting and vetting the corpus from the game’s audio banks, an F5-TTS false start that taught the data lessons, an OmniVoice zero-shot spike that proved the direction, and a LoRA finetune merged into a standalone model that now answers every question the kiosk gets. This guide is the companion to the kiosk guide: I Built My Family a Voice Assistant That Never Touches the Cloud. ...