8-gen bench (4 emotions × 2 corpora) at seed=42 against firdhokk
Whisper-LV3:
target RAVDESS CREMA-D
happy happy (0.999) ✓ happy (0.999) ✓
angry neutral (0.92) sad (0.99)
fearful happy (0.998) fearful (0.984) ✓
sad angry (0.99) fearful (0.99)
CREMA-D 2/4 vs RAVDESS 1/4. Larger / more naturalistic corpus
produces more class-pure fearful direction. Neither corpus solves
angry or sad — recipe shifts into 'vague expressivity' rather than
class-specific corners.
Practical: prefer CREMA-D when available; A/B both per emotion if
class precision matters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Watermarker trait gains embed_with_message(audio, message) with a
default impl forwarding to embed (no-op for watermarkers without a
payload). AudioSealWatermarker overrides to use the requested message
instead of self.message; ResampledWatermarker forwards through the
resample dance.
TtsRequest gains optional watermark_message: Option<String> (decimal or
0xHEX). Useful for clawsample to tag each generation with a unique ID
(e.g. job_id mod 0x10000) for audit trails. When omitted, falls back
to the server-startup --audioseal-message default.
Verified end-to-end: override "0xBEEF" -> detect 0xBEEF (mean_presence
0.9995, 16/16 bits). Default fallback also decodes correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]>