diff --git a/tools/android/exercise-final.ps1 b/tools/android/exercise-final.ps1
index 95702b1..703e056 100644
--- a/tools/android/exercise-final.ps1
+++ b/tools/android/exercise-final.ps1
@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@ try {
     Check 'final-and-deliverable-apk-identical' ((Get-FileHash -LiteralPath $standard).Hash-eq$record.apkSha256) $standard
     $adoption=Get-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $projectRoot 'SourceAssets/Audio/Voice/active-adoption.json') -Raw|ConvertFrom-Json
     Check 'approved44-active-voices' ($adoption.approvedCount-eq44-and$adoption.draftCount-eq0-and$adoption.clips.Count-eq44-and@($adoption.clips.id|Sort-Object -Unique).Count-eq44) 'All active voices approved, no draft'
-    $packed=@(Get-Content -LiteralPath ($ApkPath+'.packed-assets.txt'))
+    & pwsh -NoProfile -File (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot 'inspect-voice-payload.ps1') -ApkPath $ApkPath -EvidenceDir (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'VoicePayload')
+    $voiceExit=$LASTEXITCODE;$voicePayload=Get-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'VoicePayload/apk-voice-payload.json') -Raw|ConvertFrom-Json
+    Check 'actual-apk44-voice-payloads' ($voiceExit-eq0-and$voicePayload.status-eq'passed'-and$voicePayload.apkSha256-eq$record.apkSha256-and$voicePayload.actualClipCount-eq44-and$voicePayload.checks.Count-eq44-and@($voicePayload.checks|Where-Object passed -ne $true).Count-eq0) 'Exact actual APK PCM bytes for all44, independent of incremental BuildReport'
+    & (Join-Path $projectRoot 'artifacts/tools/apk-inspector/Scripts/python.exe') -I (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot 'test-voice-payload-negative.py') --apk $ApkPath --project $projectRoot --evidence (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'VoicePayloadNegative')
+    Check 'actual-apk-payload-negative-controls' ($LASTEXITCODE-eq0) 'Same inspector accepts actual44; rejects missing serialized clips and altered actual PCM copies'
     foreach($clip in $adoption.clips){
         foreach($entry in @(@{kind='source';path=(Join-Path $projectRoot ('SourceAssets/Audio/Voice/'+$clip.sourceFile));expected=$clip.sourceSha256},@{kind='edited';path=(Join-Path $projectRoot ('SourceAssets/Audio/Voice/'+$clip.editedFile));expected=$clip.editedSha256},@{kind='runtime';path=(Join-Path $projectRoot $clip.runtimeFile);expected=$clip.runtimeSha256})){
             Check "voice-$($clip.id)-$($entry.kind)-exact-sha" ((Get-FileHash -LiteralPath $entry.path).Hash-eq$entry.expected) $entry.expected
         }
-        Check "voice-$($clip.id)-packed-in-built-apk" ($packed-contains$clip.runtimeFile) 'BuildReport packedAssets contains adopted runtime clip; Unity imported representation, not original WAV byte identity'
+        Check "voice-$($clip.id)-packed-in-built-apk" (@($voicePayload.checks|Where-Object {$_.id-eq$clip.id-and$_.passed-and$_.runtimeSha256-eq$clip.runtimeSha256}).Count-eq1) 'Deserialized actual APK AudioClip PCM and format exactly match approved runtime WAV'
     }
     $zip=[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead($ApkPath)
     try {
diff --git a/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.ps1 b/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.ps1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1772c24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.ps1
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+param([Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$ApkPath,[Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$EvidenceDir)
+$ErrorActionPreference='Stop'
+$projectRoot=Split-Path (Split-Path $PSScriptRoot -Parent) -Parent
+$toolRoot=Join-Path $projectRoot 'artifacts/tools/apk-inspector'
+$python=Join-Path $toolRoot 'Scripts/python.exe'
+New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $EvidenceDir -Force|Out-Null
+$commands=[Collections.Generic.List[object]]::new()
+try {
+    if(!(Test-Path -LiteralPath $python)){
+        & python -m venv $toolRoot *> (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'venv-create.log');$code=$LASTEXITCODE
+        $commands.Add(@{command='python -m venv '+$toolRoot;exitCode=$code});if($code-ne0){throw 'QA inspector environment creation failed'}
+    }
+    $version=& $python -c 'import importlib.metadata; print(importlib.metadata.version("UnityPy"))' 2>$null
+    if($LASTEXITCODE-ne0-or$version-ne'1.25.4'){
+        & $python -m pip install UnityPy==1.25.4 *> (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'tool-install.log');$code=$LASTEXITCODE
+        $commands.Add(@{command='isolated QA venv pip install UnityPy==1.25.4';exitCode=$code});if($code-ne0){throw 'Pinned APK voice inspector installation failed'}
+    }
+    & $python -m pip freeze | Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'tool-packages.txt')
+    & $python -I (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot 'inspect-voice-payload.py') --apk $ApkPath --project $projectRoot --evidence $EvidenceDir *> (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'inspection.log')
+    $code=$LASTEXITCODE;$commands.Add(@{command=('inspect-voice-payload.py --apk '+$ApkPath+' --project '+$projectRoot+' --evidence '+$EvidenceDir);exitCode=$code})
+    if($code-ne0){throw 'Actual APK voice payload verification failed'}
+}finally{@{sourceCommit=(& git rev-parse HEAD);sourceDirty=[bool](& git status --porcelain);commands=$commands.ToArray()}|ConvertTo-Json -Depth 5|Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $EvidenceDir 'inspection-commands.json')}
+exit 0
diff --git a/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.py b/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff54e9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/android/inspect-voice-payload.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+"""Read actual APK AudioClip payloads; never modify the APK or project assets."""
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import importlib.metadata
+import io
+import json
+from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
+import re
+import wave
+import uuid
+import zipfile
+
+import UnityPy
+
+
+def sha(data):
+    return hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()
+
+
+def require(condition, message):
+    if not condition:
+        raise ValueError(message)
+
+
+def pcm(wav_bytes):
+    with wave.open(io.BytesIO(wav_bytes)) as wav:
+        return ((wav.getnchannels(), wav.getsampwidth(), wav.getframerate(), wav.getnframes()),
+                wav.readframes(wav.getnframes()))
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('--apk', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('--project', required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('--evidence', required=True)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    project, apk, evidence = Path(args.project), Path(args.apk), Path(args.evidence)
+    evidence.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    version = importlib.metadata.version('UnityPy')
+    require(version == '1.25.4', f'Expected pinned QA inspector1.25.4, got {version}')
+    adoption = json.loads((project / 'SourceAssets/Audio/Voice/active-adoption.json').read_text(encoding='utf-8-sig'))
+    require(len(adoption['clips']) == 44 and len({c['id'] for c in adoption['clips']}) == 44
+            and adoption['approvedCount'] == 44 and adoption['draftCount'] == 0, '44 unique approved adoption IDs required')
+    adopted = {c['id']: c for c in adoption['clips']}
+    extracted = evidence / ('apk-serialized-data-' + uuid.uuid4().hex)
+    extracted.mkdir()
+    record = {'apkSha256': sha(apk.read_bytes()), 'tool': 'UnityPy', 'toolVersion': version,
+              'method': 'Join actual APK split assets; deserialize AudioClips; decode PCM16; exact PCM SHA and format comparison to adopted WAV',
+              'status': 'failed', 'checks': [], 'extractedEntries': []}
+    try:
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(apk) as archive:
+            entries = [n for n in archive.namelist() if n.startswith('assets/bin/Data/')
+                       and not n.endswith('/') and '/Managed/' not in n]
+            names = sorted({re.sub(r'\.split\d+$', '', n) for n in entries})
+            for name in names:
+                parts = sorted([n for n in entries if re.sub(r'\.split\d+$', '', n) == name],
+                               key=lambda n: int(n.rsplit('.split', 1)[1]) if '.split' in n else -1)
+                if '.split' in parts[0]:
+                    require([int(n.rsplit('.split', 1)[1]) for n in parts] == list(range(len(parts))), 'Contiguous split asset parts required')
+                data = b''.join(archive.read(n) for n in parts)
+                path = extracted / PurePosixPath(name).name
+                path.write_bytes(data)
+                record['extractedEntries'].append({'parts': parts, 'joinedFile': str(path), 'sha256': sha(data)})
+        clips = [obj.read() for obj in UnityPy.load(str(extracted)).objects if obj.type.name == 'AudioClip']
+        record['actualClipCount'] = len(clips)
+        require(len(clips) == 44 and len({clip.m_Name for clip in clips}) == 44, 'Actual APK must contain44 unique AudioClips')
+        require({clip.m_Name for clip in clips} == set(adopted), 'Actual APK clip IDs must exactly equal adoption IDs')
+        for clip in sorted(clips, key=lambda c: c.m_Name):
+            adoption_clip = adopted[clip.m_Name]
+            runtime = (project / adoption_clip['runtimeFile']).read_bytes()
+            require(sha(runtime) == adoption_clip['runtimeSha256'].lower(), 'Adopted runtime SHA mismatch: ' + clip.m_Name)
+            samples = clip.samples
+            require(len(samples) == 1, 'Exactly one PCM payload required: ' + clip.m_Name)
+            packed_wave = next(iter(samples.values()))
+            packed_format, packed_pcm = pcm(packed_wave)
+            runtime_format, runtime_pcm = pcm(runtime)
+            passed = (packed_format == runtime_format and packed_format[:3] == (1, 2, 44100)
+                      and sha(packed_pcm) == sha(runtime_pcm) and clip.m_CompressionFormat == 0)
+            record['checks'].append({'id': clip.m_Name, 'passed': passed,
+                                     'runtimeSha256': sha(runtime), 'apkPcmSha256': sha(packed_pcm),
+                                     'runtimePcmSha256': sha(runtime_pcm), 'format': packed_format,
+                                     'resource': clip.m_Resource.m_Source, 'offset': clip.m_Resource.m_Offset,
+                                     'resourceSize': clip.m_Resource.m_Size})
+            require(passed, f'Actual packed voice PCM mismatch: {clip.m_Name}')
+        record['status'] = 'passed'
+    except Exception as exc:
+        record['error'] = str(exc)
+        raise
+    finally:
+        (evidence / 'apk-voice-payload.json').write_text(json.dumps(record, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2), encoding='utf-8')
+    print(f'Actual APK voice PCM exact matches: {len(record["checks"])}/44')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/tools/android/test-voice-payload-negative.py b/tools/android/test-voice-payload-negative.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58a9256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/android/test-voice-payload-negative.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+"""Actual inspector rejects missing serialized clips and changed PCM in QA-only APK copies."""
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import zipfile
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument('--apk', required=True)
+parser.add_argument('--project', required=True)
+parser.add_argument('--evidence', required=True)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+apk, evidence = Path(args.apk), Path(args.evidence)
+evidence.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+inspector = Path(__file__).with_name('inspect-voice-payload.py')
+checks = []
+for kind in ('positive', 'missing-clips', 'altered-pcm'):
+    case = evidence / kind
+    case.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+    target = apk if kind == 'positive' else case / 'qa-mutated.apk'
+    mutation = None
+    if kind != 'positive':
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(apk) as source, zipfile.ZipFile(target, 'w') as output:
+            for entry in source.infolist():
+                if not entry.filename.startswith('assets/bin/Data/'):
+                    continue
+                if kind == 'missing-clips' and entry.filename.startswith('assets/bin/Data/sharedassets0.assets'):
+                    continue
+                data = source.read(entry)
+                if kind == 'altered-pcm' and entry.filename in ('assets/bin/Data/sharedassets0.resource.split0', 'assets/bin/Data/sharedassets0.resource'):
+                    data = bytearray(data)
+                    offset = 194000  # Inside first known PCM16 AudioClip resource, outside its FSB header.
+                    data[offset] ^= 32
+                    data = bytes(data)
+                    mutation = {'entry': entry.filename, 'offset': offset, 'xor': 32}
+                output.writestr(entry, data)
+        if kind == 'altered-pcm' and mutation is None:
+            raise RuntimeError('Expected actual PCM split resource is absent')
+    command = [sys.executable, '-I', str(inspector), '--apk', str(target), '--project', args.project, '--evidence', str(case)]
+    process = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True)
+    (case / 'stdout.log').write_text(process.stdout, encoding='utf-8')
+    (case / 'stderr.log').write_text(process.stderr, encoding='utf-8')
+    record = json.loads((case / 'apk-voice-payload.json').read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
+    expected = kind == 'positive'
+    passed = process.returncode == (0 if expected else 1) and (record['status'] == 'passed') == expected
+    if kind == 'missing-clips':
+        passed = passed and record.get('actualClipCount') == 0
+    if kind == 'altered-pcm':
+        passed = passed and any(not check['passed'] for check in record['checks']) and 'PCM mismatch' in record.get('error', '')
+    checks.append({'case': kind, 'command': command, 'exitCode': process.returncode, 'passed': passed,
+                   'mutation': mutation, 'inspectorRecord': record})
+result = {'originalApkSha256': hashlib.sha256(apk.read_bytes()).hexdigest(), 'scope': 'QA synthetic negative copies only; never installed',
+          'checks': checks, 'passed': all(check['passed'] for check in checks)}
+(evidence / 'regression.json').write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2), encoding='utf-8')
+sys.exit(0 if result['passed'] else 1)