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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Lädt die für das jamulix-Deployment benötigten Piper-Stimmen herunter.
+
+Prüft welche Dateien bereits vorhanden sind und lädt nur fehlende nach.
+
+Aufruf:
+    python scripts/download_voices.py
+    python scripts/download_voices.py --voices-dir /pfad/zu/voices
+    python scripts/download_voices.py --force   # vorhandene überschreiben
+"""
+import argparse
+import sys
+import urllib.request
+from pathlib import Path
+
+BASE_URL = "https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices/resolve/v1.0.0"
+
+# Alle für dieses Deployment benötigten Piper-Stimmen.
+# Abgeleitet aus PIPER_VOICE_GENDERED + LANG_TO_PIPER_VOICE in app/dependencies.py.
+# Bei Änderungen dort diese Liste synchron halten.
+# Stimmen mit '#speaker_id'-Suffix (ES sharvard) sind Multi-Speaker-Modelle —
+# nur eine Datei für beide Geschlechter, kein separater Download nötig.
+REQUIRED_VOICES = [
+    "de_DE-thorsten-high",    # DE ♂
+    "de_DE-kerstin-low",      # DE ♀
+    "en_US-lessac-high",      # EN ♂
+    "en_US-amy-medium",       # EN ♀
+    "fr_FR-siwis-medium",     # FR ♀
+    "fr_FR-tom-medium",       # FR ♂
+    "es_ES-sharvard-medium",  # ES ♂+♀  (Multi-Speaker: voice#0=♂, voice#1=♀)
+    "it_IT-paola-medium",     # IT ♀
+    "it_IT-riccardo-x_low",   # IT ♂
+    "pt_BR-faber-medium",     # PT ♂    (kein ♀ in piper-voices verfügbar)
+    "pl_PL-gosia-medium",     # PL ♀
+    "pl_PL-darkman-medium",   # PL ♂
+    "ar_JO-kareem-medium",    # AR ♂    (kein ♀ in piper-voices verfügbar)
+    "ru_RU-irina-medium",     # RU ♀
+    "ru_RU-ruslan-medium",    # RU ♂
+    "zh_CN-huayan-medium",    # ZH ♀    (kein ♂ in piper-voices verfügbar)
+]
+
+_QUALITY_SUFFIXES = {"high", "medium", "low", "x_low"}
+
+
+def _parse_voice_name(name: str) -> tuple[str, str, str, str]:
+    """Zerlegt z. B. 'de_DE-kerstin-low' → (lang_family, lang_code, speaker, quality)."""
+    name = name.split("#")[0]
+    parts = name.split("-")
+    lang_code = parts[0]                          # z. B. "de_DE"
+    lang_family = lang_code.split("_")[0].lower() # z. B. "de"
+    # Qualität kann aus zwei Teilen bestehen (x_low)
+    if len(parts) >= 3 and f"{parts[-2]}_{parts[-1]}" in _QUALITY_SUFFIXES:
+        quality = f"{parts[-2]}_{parts[-1]}"      # z. B. "x_low"
+        speaker = "-".join(parts[1:-2])
+    else:
+        quality = parts[-1]                       # z. B. "high"
+        speaker = "-".join(parts[1:-1])
+    return lang_family, lang_code, speaker, quality
+
+
+def _hf_url(voice_name: str, ext: str) -> str:
+    lang_family, lang_code, speaker, quality = _parse_voice_name(voice_name)
+    path = f"{lang_family}/{lang_code}/{speaker}/{quality}/{voice_name}{ext}"
+    return f"{BASE_URL}/{path}"
+
+
+def _download(url: str, dest: Path) -> None:
+    dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    tmp = dest.with_suffix(dest.suffix + ".tmp")
+
+    def _progress(block_num, block_size, total_size):
+        if total_size > 0:
+            pct = min(100, block_num * block_size * 100 // total_size)
+            bar = "█" * (pct // 5) + "░" * (20 - pct // 5)
+            mb = total_size / 1_048_576
+            print(f"\r    [{bar}] {pct:3d}%  ({mb:.0f} MB)", end="", flush=True)
+
+    try:
+        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, tmp, _progress)
+        tmp.rename(dest)
+        print(f"\r    ✓  {dest.name}            ")
+    except Exception:
+        tmp.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+        raise
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                     formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    parser.add_argument("--voices-dir", default="config/voices",
+                        help="Zielverzeichnis (Standard: config/voices)")
+    parser.add_argument("--force", action="store_true",
+                        help="Vorhandene Dateien überschreiben")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    voices_dir = Path(args.voices_dir)
+
+    to_download = []
+    already_present = []
+    for voice in REQUIRED_VOICES:
+        onnx  = voices_dir / f"{voice}.onnx"
+        json_ = voices_dir / f"{voice}.onnx.json"
+        if args.force or not onnx.exists() or not json_.exists():
+            to_download.append(voice)
+        else:
+            already_present.append(voice)
+
+    print(f"Stimmen-Verzeichnis : {voices_dir.resolve()}")
+    print(f"Bereits vorhanden   : {len(already_present)}/{len(REQUIRED_VOICES)}")
+    print(f"Herunterzuladen     : {len(to_download)}")
+
+    if not to_download:
+        print("\nAlle Stimmen sind bereits vorhanden.")
+        return
+
+    print()
+    errors: list[tuple[str, str, str]] = []
+    for i, voice in enumerate(to_download, 1):
+        print(f"[{i}/{len(to_download)}] {voice}")
+        for ext in (".onnx", ".onnx.json"):
+            url  = _hf_url(voice, ext)
+            dest = voices_dir / f"{voice}{ext}"
+            if dest.exists() and not args.force:
+                print(f"    ✓  {dest.name} (vorhanden)")
+                continue
+            try:
+                _download(url, dest)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"\n    ✗  FEHLER: {e}")
+                errors.append((voice, ext, str(e)))
+
+    print()
+    if errors:
+        print(f"{len(errors)} Fehler beim Download:")
+        for voice, ext, msg in errors:
+            print(f"  {voice}{ext}: {msg}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    else:
+        print(f"Fertig — {len(to_download)} Stimme(n) heruntergeladen.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()