skald narrate pre-processes body_md_tts with word-boundary regex
substitutions from pronunciation_overrides where phoneme_format =
'respelling'. Story-scoped overrides win over global; longer words
substitute first (so 'Bryukhanov' wins over a hypothetical 'Bry'
override). Case is preserved on the first letter so 'Pripyat' at
sentence start stays capitalised after respelling to 'Prip-yat'.
Seeded Coast-Down with 52 entries: Russian/Ukrainian surnames
(Dyatlov, Akimov, Bryukhanov, Stolyarchuk, Yuvchenko, Khmel, etc.),
first names (Pyotr, Lyudmilla, Anatoly, Vasily, Sasha, Aleksandr,
Leonid), patronymics (Stepanovich, Fyodorovich, Mykolaivna,
Hryhorivna), and places (Pripyat, Chernobyl, Kyiv, Kopachi,
Lubyanka). Plus the operational acronyms NIKIET, RBMK, AZ-5, SIUR,
SIUB, ChNPP, MSCh.
Other phoneme_format values (ipa, arpabet) are no-ops for now —
Kokoro's misaki tokenizer doesn't expose a stable lexicon-injection
API across the HTTP boundary in v0.1. Future: pass IPA forms in a
new server-side request field and inject into the pipeline's g2p
lexicon for more accurate phonetics.
Kayos
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