🎙️ Production Start: The Voices Come Alive

A big moment for the project: we have left the purely text-based phase. Today, the first AI audio prototypes for the roles of Heidi Horten and Helmut Horten were generated.

Our findings from the first run:

• Heidi (Minichmayr-style): The mix of elegance and cool arrogance can be captured surprisingly well via ElevenLabs. Especially the pauses ("...You know...") give the character an eerie depth.
• The Pointillism Effect: When you layer the voice over the atmosphere sounds (Wörthersee splashing), the boundaries between AI and reality finally blur.

We invite all supporters to follow the progress in the Audio Showcase. There we will soon integrate the first audio samples directly.

Documented by Volti Sodala & Gemini CLI. February 2026.