feat: Voice Setting Presets

[hrshjswniii]

🚀 Program

GSSoC

✨ Feature Description

Implement a preset selection system for Voice Synthesis Settings (Stability, Temperature, and Style Exaggeration). Users should be able to pick from a list of pre-configured emotional/tonal presets (such as "Narrator", "Excited", "Robotic", "Soft") to instantly adjust the synthesis settings instead of tuning each slider manually.

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🤔 Problem It Solves

Adjusting three separate, fine-grained float sliders (ranging from 0 to 1 or 5) is tedious, unintuitive, and relies on trial-and-error:

• Cognitive Load: Non-technical users do not naturally know how "Stability" vs. "Temperature" interacts to create a natural-sounding voice.
• Convenience: Conversational context changes rapidly during a call. If a user needs to switch from a calm narrator tone to an excited shout, adjusting multiple sliders takes too long. Presets enable instantaneous switching.

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💡 Proposed Solution

1. In [voiceSettings.js], export a map of predefined presets:
   • Narrator / Neutral: Stability: 0.70, Temperature: 0.60, Style Exaggeration: 0.30
   • Excited / Energetic: Stability: 0.40, Temperature: 0.95, Style Exaggeration: 0.75
   • Robotic / Flat: Stability: 0.95, Temperature: 0.10, Style Exaggeration: 0.05
   • Soft / Whispering: Stability: 0.55, Temperature: 0.50, Style Exaggeration: 0.20
2. Add a Presets dropdown or badge buttons component in the Voice Synthesis Settings card in [Settings.jsx].
3. Clicking a preset should update the state, slide the controls to their respective positions, and persist the new configuration to localStorage (voiceforge:voiceSettings).
4. If a user manually slides any individual setting, the preset selector should automatically select a "Custom" label.

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🔄 Alternatives Considered

• Preset Profiles: Storing preset values per voice profile. While highly customizable, this is more complex to implement and could be added as a separate enhancement later. Global presets solve the immediate usability issue.

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✅ Acceptance Criteria

• A preset selection dropdown or button group is added to the Voice Synthesis Settings panel in the Settings page.
• Selecting a preset instantly sets Stability, Temperature, and Style Exaggeration sliders to their pre-configured values.
• Manually modifying any slider automatically shifts the preset designation to "Custom".
• Presets are persisted to and successfully reloaded from localStorage on page refresh.

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📋 Additional Context

Voice settings helper definitions:

• [voiceSettings.js]
  Synthesis configuration UI layout:
• [Settings.jsx:L254-306]

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🌱 Contributor Checklist

• I am participating via GSSoC
• I have read the contribution guidelines
• I checked for existing issues before creating this

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🧠 Triage Suggestion — Looks Good

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Hey @hrshjswniii! 👋 Thanks for opening this issue.

The feature request to implement voice setting presets for synthesis settings is well-defined, aligns with existing enhancement patterns, and addresses usability improvements for non-technical users. Similar issues like #318 (Expressive Speech: Emotion & Tone Controls) indicate community interest in

Similar Issues:

• feat: Expressive Speech: Emotion & Tone Controls for AI Voice Generation #318 — Related feature for expressive speech and emotional tone controls, which overlaps with preset voice settings.
• feat: [FEATURE]: Add adjustable speech playback speed (rate) control #374 — Another enhancement related to speech playback speed control, indicating ongoing improvements in voice customization.

Suggested maintainer action: go ahead

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[vmdivyareddy18]

Hello @hrshjswniii

I’m interested in working on this issue as part of GSSoC’26. I have gone through the requirements and would like to contribute. Could you please assign this issue to me?

Thank you!

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