From 2403e5403954afda429c70a7bc69682c25f870e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: m3ta-chiron <m3ta-chiron@agentmail.to>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 12:19:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: enable orchestrator + switch TTS to Edge (Seraphina
 voice)
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- Enable delegation.orchestrator_enabled with max_spawn_depth=2
- Switch TTS from ElevenLabs (paid) to Edge TTS (free)
- Voice: de-DE-SeraphinaMultilingualNeural — friendly, multilingual German female
- No API key required
---
 hosts/m3-hermes/services/hermes-agent.nix | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hosts/m3-hermes/services/hermes-agent.nix b/hosts/m3-hermes/services/hermes-agent.nix
index eb59414..dfdcd29 100644
--- a/hosts/m3-hermes/services/hermes-agent.nix
+++ b/hosts/m3-hermes/services/hermes-agent.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
   inputs,
   ...
 }: let
-  # Default ElevenLabs voice: Bella (German-capable female)
-  elevenlabsVoiceId = "hpp4J3VqNfWAUOO0d1Us";
+  # Edge TTS: Seraphina — friendly, multilingual German female voice (free, no API key)
+  edgeVoice = "de-DE-SeraphinaMultilingualNeural";
 
   # Extra Python packages from the container's writable venv layer.
   # matrix-nio is installed via pip in /home/hermes/.venv but the hermes
@@ -180,10 +180,9 @@ in {
 
       # ── TTS / STT / Voice ──────────────────────────────────────────────
       tts = {
-        provider = "elevenlabs";
-        elevenlabs = {
-          voice_id = elevenlabsVoiceId;
-          model_id = "eleven_multilingual_v2";
+        provider = "edge";
+        edge = {
+          voice = edgeVoice;
         };
       };
 
@@ -209,9 +208,11 @@ in {
         user_char_limit = 1375;
       };
 
-      # ── Delegation ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+      # ── Delegation / Orchestrator ────────────────────────────────────────
       delegation = {
         max_iterations = 50;
+        orchestrator_enabled = true;
+        max_spawn_depth = 2;
       };
 
       # ── Matrix ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────