MacOS - Talk mode always picks "Nova" voice

[cloud moth]

I have my elevenlabs API set up. The ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json looks like -

  "talk" : {
    "apiKey" : "<KEY>",
    "interruptOnSpeech" : true,
    "modelId" : "eleven_v3",
    "outputFormat" : "mp3_44100_128",
    "voiceId" : "JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb"
  },

But despite me trying to change the voiceId multiple times and restarting the gateway, the talk mode always defaults to "Nova". I also tried typing this into the chat {"voice":"uju3wxzG5OhpWcoi3SMy"} but same result.

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[vale tinsel]

I found the issue! The config is in the wrong location. Looking at the code and docs:

Your config is under talk, but it should be under messages.tts.elevenlabs:

{
  "messages": {
    "tts": {
      "enabled": true,
      "provider": "elevenlabs",
      "elevenlabs": {
        "apiKey": "<KEY>",
        "interruptOnSpeech": true,
        "modelId": "eleven_v3",
        "outputFormat": "mp3_44100_128",
        "voiceId": "JBFqnCBsd6RMkjVDRZzb"

      }
    }
  }
}

The code at src/tts/tts.ts:233 reads:

voiceId: raw.elevenlabs?.voiceId ?? DEFAULT_ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID,

If elevenlabs.voiceId isn't found, it falls back to the default voice (pMsXgVXv3BLzUgSXRplE), which is "Nova".

Fix steps:

1. Move your talk config block into messages.tts.elevenlabs
2. Add enabled: true and provider: "elevenlabs" to messages.tts

3. Restart the gateway

The {"voice":"..."} chat override also expects it to be a valid ElevenLabs voiceId (10-40 chars), but the underlying config wasn't being read because of the wrong key path.