First attempt at Clay's voice profile from 2015-s7e19 produced
Clay-vs-Mike cosine similarity of 0.994 — essentially a Mike clone.
Root cause: 10s WavLM x-vector chunks averaged Mike's frequent
interjections together with Clay's dialogue, and Mike's well-trained
profile dominated the resulting embedding signal.
Mike's call: skip Clay, accept the 2015-s7e19 Q&A as noisy. Clay rarely
appears in other episodes, so the cost of not having his profile is
bounded to this one episode plus any rare future appearances.
Cleanup:
- voice-profiles/clay/ removed
- voice-profiles/profiles.json: Clay entry removed
- Memory updated to record the decision and the failure mode
Kept build_clay_profile.py in-repo as documentation of the attempt and
the Mike-similarity-filter pattern. Useful starting point if a future
attempt provides cleaner pure-Clay timestamps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mike Swanson
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