diff --git a/cloned-voices/foxhop.wav b/cloned-voices/foxhop.wav
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1947f6
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diff --git a/cloned-voices/voices_metadata.json b/cloned-voices/voices_metadata.json
index 3b194aa..a262e2f 100644
--- a/cloned-voices/voices_metadata.json
+++ b/cloned-voices/voices_metadata.json
@@ -278,5 +278,12 @@
     "speaker_id": "8224",
     "gender": "male",
     "duration": 6.8
+  },
+  "foxhop": {
+    "ref_audio": "cloned-voices/foxhop.wav",
+    "ref_text": "Placeholder — make whisper-refs will replace this with the actual transcript.",
+    "speaker_id": "fox-2026-05-25",
+    "gender": "male",
+    "duration": 10.0
   }
 }
diff --git a/voice_registry.json b/voice_registry.json
index 2e60317..b26f795 100644
--- a/voice_registry.json
+++ b/voice_registry.json
@@ -240,6 +240,14 @@
       "speaker_id": "8224",
       "gender": "male",
       "locked": true
+    },
+    "foxhop": {
+      "corpus": "self-recorded",
+      "speaker_id": "fox-2026-05-25",
+      "gender": "male",
+      "locked": true,
+      "slot": 42,
+      "note": "Voice 42 — slot 41 intentionally empty (Hitchhiker tribute)"
     }
   },
   "name_pools": {
@@ -355,6 +363,9 @@
       "config": "clean",
       "split": "test",
       "description": "LibriSpeech test-clean, 40 speakers, public domain"
+    },
+    "self-recorded": {
+      "description": "Self-recorded by speaker, AGPL-cleared for public network service"
     }
   }
 }
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diff --git a/voice_to_speaker.default.yaml b/voice_to_speaker.default.yaml
index e9da826..7635807 100644
--- a/voice_to_speaker.default.yaml
+++ b/voice_to_speaker.default.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #
 # Female voices: aria, clara, elena, grace, hazel, iris, luna, maya, ruby, sage, sofia, amber, brooke, cora, diana, eden, faye, gemma, hope, ivy
 # Male voices: atlas, caleb, felix, hugo, jasper, kai, leo, marcus, owen, theo, archer, blake, cole, dane, ezra, finn, grant, heath, ivan, jude
+# Voice 42 (slot 41 intentionally empty — Hitchhiker tribute): foxhop (self-recorded)
 #
 # Source: LibriSpeech test-clean (public domain, LibriVox recordings)
 # 40 distinct speakers (20 female, 20 male)
@@ -252,6 +253,12 @@ tts-1-qwen:
     ref_text: "The king stood up and called for that psalm which begins with these words,."
     language: English
 
+  # voice 42 — self-recorded (slot 41 intentionally empty, Hitchhiker tribute)
+  foxhop:
+    ref_audio: cloned-voices/foxhop.wav
+    ref_text: "Placeholder — make whisper-refs will replace this with the actual transcript."
+    language: English
+
 # Other TTS engines (disabled by default)
 # Uncomment and configure to enable
 
@@ -513,6 +520,12 @@ tts-1-f5:
     ref_text: "The king stood up and called for that psalm which begins with these words,."
     language: English
 
+  # voice 42 — self-recorded (slot 41 intentionally empty, Hitchhiker tribute)
+  foxhop:
+    ref_audio: cloned-voices/foxhop.wav
+    ref_text: "Placeholder — make whisper-refs will replace this with the actual transcript."
+    language: English
+
 # Other TTS engines (disabled by default)
 # Uncomment and configure to enable