Evolving prompt+sampling to push VoiceNet dimension S_CART in the high direction with the vn_S_CART__high LoRA. Steering phrase: exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
Best in-direction score 0.826 at 100% vs neutral 0.211 (shift +0.615).
Method & reproducibility — how the evolution ran
Base model:laion/moss-tts-local-transformer-4.55b-voice-acting-v2 · LoRA: the new VoiceNet-dimension LoRAvn_<CODE>__<high|low> (retrained with ≤25% game-character data, rank 32), applied via PEFT adapter scaling at strength λ. Algorithm: genetic search — population 12, 10 generations, elitism (top 5). During evolution every genome is generated best-of-6with the LoRA at λ=100%; its fitness = the mean over those 6 candidates of the target VoiceNet dimension score in the intended direction (for a __high LoRA the raw score; for __low, 1−score), minus 0.2·max(0, WER−0.6). Genome (what evolves): the GENERAL voice description, the SCRIPT cue, the carrier sentence, and the sampling params (temperature, top_p, top_k). λ is fixed at 100% during the search. Mutation operators: 40% regenerate description, 25% swap carrier, 17% jitter temperature ±0.1, 18% change top_k. Offspring = 60% crossover + mutation, 40% mutation. Dose measurement (below): the winning recipe is then re-generated at λ=0 (LoRA OFF), λ=50% and λ=100% (each best-of-6) to show exactly what 50% vs 100% of the LoRA brings over the no-LoRA baseline.
Dose — what 50% vs 100% brings (top recipe)
λ=0 (no LoRA) — dir 0.200 (raw 0.20)
WER 0.26 · genu 0.05
λ=50% — dir 0.239 (raw 0.24)
WER 0.11 · genu 0.04
λ=100% — dir 0.826 (raw 0.83)
WER 0.47 · genu 0.16
GENERAL: A voice that is markedly exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
SCRIPT: (distinctly exaggerated cartoonish character voice) "The train leaves from platform four every hour on the hour." · temp 1.05 top_p 0.95 top_k 40
Other evolved recipes (100%)
— dir 0.787 (raw 0.79)
WER 0.18 · genu 0.12
A voice that is intensely exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
— dir 0.797 (raw 0.80)
WER 0.65 · genu 0.13
A voice that is intensely exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
— dir 0.803 (raw 0.80)
WER 0.71 · genu 0.16
A voice that is extremely exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
— dir 0.778 (raw 0.78)
WER 0.44 · genu 0.15
A voice that is intensely exaggerated cartoonish character voice.
— dir 0.776 (raw 0.78)
WER 0.48 · genu 0.18
A voice that is clearly exaggerated cartoonish character voice.