Persona

Who the station is when it opens its mouth: the character a model writes in, the phrasings underneath it, the voice that says them, and what it plays

Attributes (22)

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	string	Yes	read-only
key	string	Yes	A stable slug, unique per station. What a log line names and what a seeded persona is recognised by
kind	'host' | 'caller'	No	What this character is FOR. host is the station's own voice; a caller phones in to a production, is cast per programme, and can never be put on air. Absent means host, so a form written before callers existed still means what it meant
label	string	Yes
style	string	Yes	Completes "You are …". Who they ARE; the sheet below carries how they talk
djName	string	No	The name this character goes by on air, overriding the station's own while it is active
voice	string	No	The station voice that speaks this persona, as the id a speech plugin maps. Empty means that plugin's default
soundboard	string	No	The soundboard this character has to hand, as the name of a board in the pad library. Empty for a presenter who works without one. What reaches a model is the names of the pads on that board, never this word
diction	string[]	No	The dialect: grammar and substitutions that apply to every sentence rather than to a subject
dictionMarkers	string[]	No	Words whose presence proves the dialect survived. What a model's answer is checked against
quirks	string[]	No	What they always and never do on air
preoccupations	string[]	No	The standing subjects they keep coming back to. Exactly ONE reaches any one break, chosen by rotation, which is what makes a character sound like it has things on its mind rather than one thing
catchphrases	string[]	No	Signature phrases, asked for sparingly
avoid	string[]	No	Wording that breaks the character
background	string	No	A couple of grounded facts they may self-reference
brevity	'short' | 'one-line'	No	How much this character says. Absent for the station's ordinary length; the rung above it is latitude, which is a different kind of thing rather than a longer one
latitude	'loose' | 'unleashed'	No	How much room this character is given, above the station's ordinary discipline: a bigger word ceiling, a licence to follow the thought instead of making one point, and at unleashed no restraint on how it says it. Offered only by the ordinary talk break, always outranked by the station's content policy, and it switches off no refusal
chattiness	'reserved' | 'sparing' | 'ordinary' | 'chatty' | 'relentless'	No	How often this character talks, as a scale on the station's own interval between breaks. Absent is ordinary, which is that interval unchanged. The quietest rung is half as often and never silence: turning the station's breaks off is a station setting, and two switches for one thing can disagree
storytelling	'never' | 'occasionally' | 'often'	No	How readily this character works one of its own stories into an ordinary talk break. Absent is occasionally, which offers one only where the station knows nothing about the records either side. The stories themselves are their own list, and a story band on the clock outranks this whatever it says
samples	string[]	No	Lines in their own voice, used as examples and as a console preview
templates	string	No	This character's own break phrasings, one per line. Empty means the station's global ones
active	boolean	Yes	Whether this is the one on air. At most one per station. read-only