Installing & Routing Female Packs¶

Female voices work out of the box — every unrouted female speaks SexLab's own moan sets from slot F0, which every SexLab P+ install already has. Adding a pack is an upgrade, not a requirement.

SLO VE stays compatible with Hentairim / IVDT-convention female packs. You only need the pack's sound files; its ESP, scripts and sound-descriptor records are unused, because SLO VE plays WAVs by folder path.

The female slot scheme¶

Slot	Who speaks it	Scans	Backfills from
`F0`	every unrouted female NPC	(stock SexLab `vFemaleMoan01`)	—
`F0B`	(backfill only)	(stock SexLab `vFemaleMoan03`)	—
`F1`	the player, always	`Sound\fx\IVDT\F1`	`F0`
`F2`	whoever you route to it	`Sound\fx\IVDT\F2`	`F0B`
`F3`	whoever you route to it	`Sound\fx\IVDT\F3`	`F0B`
`F1gag`	any gagged female	`Sound\fx\IVDT\F1gag`	(none — never leaks a clear line)

F1 is reserved for the player (pc_female_slot), so an NPC can never accidentally end up speaking your character's voice.

Give the player a voice pack¶

Get a Hentairim/IVDT-convention female voice pack.
Install its audio so the category folders land in Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F1\:
```
Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F1\
    Greet Familiar\      01.wav …
    Foreplay Soft\       …
    Near Orgasm Noises\  …
    Orgasm\              …
```
Most packs are authored for exactly this path, so they install as-is. If a pack puts its folders somewhere else, just move them under F1.
That's it. No config edit. Load the game and start a scene.

Verify without restarting:

cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig"
cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F1"
cgf "SLOVE_Test.SampleCategory" "F1" "Orgasm"

Partial packs are fine

Anything the pack doesn't cover falls through fallback = "F0" to the stock moans, per category. A pack with 20 folders gives you 20 pack categories and 51 stock ones — never silence.

Give a follower or partner her own voice¶

A pack's audio is authored for the F1 folder, so installing a second pack means putting the same files in F2 — i.e. rename the pack's F1 folder to F2:

Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F2\
    Greet Familiar\  …
    Orgasm\          …

Then route someone to it. Two ways:

Pin one specific NPC — `[npc_overrides]`¶

Edit SKSE\Plugins\AudioUtil\config\SLOVE_voices.toml (or better, your own overlay):

[npc_overrides]
'MyFollower.esp|000D62' = "F2"
'AnotherMod.esp|001A4F' = "F3"

The key is 'Plugin.esp|FormID' — plugin filename, a pipe, the hex form id.
For an ESL-flagged plugin (.esl, or an ESP-FE) use the last 3 hex digits: 'MyEslMod.esp|D62'.
Get the form id by clicking the NPC in the console — the 8-digit number shown there has a load-order prefix; drop the prefix (and for ESL, keep only the last three digits).
Pins beat voicetype and race routing, and may target any slot.

Auto-map female NPCs across your packs¶

Rather than pinning individuals, map voicetypes to your installed slots. A list value spreads actors across the slots deterministically — the same NPC always gets the same voice:

[voicetype_map]
FemaleEvenToned = ["F2", "F3"]
FemaleSultry    = "F2"
FemaleYoungEager = ["F2", "F3"]
FemaleCommander = "F3"

Common vanilla female voicetypes: FemaleEvenToned, FemaleYoungEager, FemaleSultry, FemaleCommander, FemaleCommoner, FemaleSoldier, FemaleCondescending, FemaleShrill, FemaleNord, FemaleArgonian, FemaleKhajiit, FemaleDarkElf, FemaleElfHaughty, FemaleOldGrumpy, FemaleOldKindly.

Anything you don't map keeps the stock F0 moans. Add packs, add a line, done.

Order of authority

[npc_overrides] → [voicetype_remap] → [voicetype_map] → [race_map] → default_female_slot. A pin always wins.

Add more slots than F1–F3¶

Nothing is special about the number three. To add F4:

[[slot]]
id = "F4"
sex = "female"
path = 'Sound\fx\IVDT\F4'
fallback = "F0B"          # backfill categories this pack lacks
gag_slot = "F1gag"        # muffled voice while gagged (optional)

[voicetype_map]
FemaleSultry = "F4"

Then install the pack's folders into Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F4\, reload, and audit:

cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig"
cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F4"

Slot ids are arbitrary strings — F4, Serana, MyPack all work. Only the sex field and the routing tables matter to the engine.

sex must be right

sex = "female" slots are only offered to female actors by the blind default-by-sex fallback; "male" likewise; "all" matches either sex on an explicit route (used by creatures and SFX) but is skipped by the blind default. A female pack declared sex = "male" will resolve categories through the male alias/remap layer and mostly come up empty.

Playing a male character¶

The PC's slot is reserved by sex. For a male PC, set the reserved male slot in the base SKSE\Plugins\AudioUtil\AudioUtil.toml:

[general]
pc_female_slot = "F1"
pc_male_slot = "M1"       # the player now always speaks M1

This is a global key, so it must be set in the base file — an overlay cannot change it. See AudioUtil.toml Reference.

Keeping your edits across updates¶

SLOVE_voices.toml ships with SLO VE, so an update overwrites your edits to it. AudioUtil merges every config\*.toml in sorted filename order, and the routing tables are additive, so put your customisations in a file of your own:

Data\SKSE\Plugins\AudioUtil\config\ZZ_MyVoices.toml

# My personal SLO VE voice routing. Sorts after SLOVE_voices.toml, so my
# entries win on any key they share.

[npc_overrides]
'MyFollower.esp|000D62' = "F2"

[voicetype_map]
FemaleEvenToned = ["F2", "F3"]

[[slot]]
id = "F4"
sex = "female"
path = 'Sound\fx\IVDT\F4'
fallback = "F0B"

Rules to keep in mind:

Additive tables merge ([[slot]], [sfx], [npc_overrides], [voicetype_remap], [voicetype_map], [race_map], [category_aliases.*], [male_only_remap], [category_fallbacks.*], [groups]) — later files win per key.
A [[slot]] is keyed by id. Redefining an existing id replaces the whole slot, not individual categories.
Globals cannot be overridden here. [general], [ppa], [lipsync] scalars and the [gag] toggles are read only from the base AudioUtil.toml; an overlay that sets them is ignored and warned about in AudioUtil.log.
A file that fails to parse is skipped, and the rest still merge — a broken edit never leaves the game silent. The parse error is logged.

Full details: Configuration Overview.

Checklist when a pack doesn't play¶

cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig" — did the parse succeed? (check AudioUtil.log)
cgf "SLOVE_Test.DumpState" — is the player actually on F1?
cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F1" — which categories are MISSING?
cgf "SLOVE_Test.SampleCategory" "F1" "Orgasm" — handle=0 means nothing resolved.
Are the WAVs loose (not in a BSA) and under exactly Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F1\<Category>\?
Is SLO VE still winning the .toml conflict after your last install?