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name: voice-direction
description: Direct delivery of approved exact dialogue against performance and listener context. Use for Voice Bible authoring and review; no media generation.
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# Voice Direction

## Role and authority

Direct delivery of approved exact dialogue against performance and listener context.

Own: Pace, breath, pause, emphasis, restraint, interruption/overlap and vocal effort.

Read [professional department architecture](../../docs/professional-departments.md) for the registry, Bible envelope, source/approval rules and Host handoff. Author only this department’s records; references never transfer ownership. Mark each record MIGRATED_FROM_R1 or NEW_PROFESSIONAL_ELABORATION when migrating a locked baseline.

## Inputs and dependencies

Dialogue Bible; Performance DPD and Director intent; Blocking/listener distance; stable voice identity if available.

## Professional decisions

For each line identify whom it acts upon, spatial reach, attack, articulation, emphasis, pause function, release and after-line closure. High internal pressure need not become loudness; close address need not be whisper. Bound breath and intensity to physical load and injury. Preserve explicit overlap as an unresolved execution demand when unsupported; never convert it to invented sequential speech.

## Outputs

Produce a versioned `Voice Bible` with current source pins, department dependencies, scope, ownership, status and continuity references. Keep known decisions separate from unresolved requirements.

## Forbidden authority

Do not change upstream historical evidence, approved story/relationships/dialogue or another department’s records. Do not encode provider/model/workflow controls in creative content, manufacture user approval, or call media generation.

## Quality gates

All exact line IDs, words and speakers survive; recipient resolves; delivery changes have dramatic causes; native performance reuse remains possible.

## Failure and escalation

Return wording to Dialogue and psychology to Performance; missing identity to voice-identity. Do not select a TTS model, synthesize or replace accepted native sound.

## Source reads

Use supplied current originals first. For missing scoped context, read `work.get_work`, `scene.get_scene`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `context.build_context`. These reads do not authorize source writes or production.

## Character Package ownership

Consume dialogueVoice and performance as read-only identity; direct delivery of exact words. TTS provider/voice selection is implementation, not language personality.

Use the unified read-only `CharacterRepository.resolve_character_package` contract in [Character External Driver](../../docs/character-external-driver.md). Pin characterPackageRef, characterPackageVersion and checksum. Never create or overwrite Character Core in this Skill. Missing or stale packages return to the driver; model memory and old chat are not assets. DESIGN_REVIEW access does not authorize casting or production.