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Any feats, spells, or strategies that would help this concept would be appreciated.
If your DM agrees that Precise Shot affects Weird Words, you could take Point Blank Shot (the prerequisite feat) and Precise Shot to eliminate the -4 penalty for shooting words at a target in melee. This is useful but not vital, as most enemies have an extremely low touch AC.
You could play an Aasimar or a human with the Racial Heritage feat to access the Aasimar's alternate favored class bonus, which allows you count as half a level higher for a given performance. This would enable you to hit the 10 word cap on Weird Words earlier and would increase the performance's DC.
If you're allowed to take feats from the Faction Guide, consider Verbose Performer, which would double the range of Weird Words. This will reduce the number of rounds you need to move close to your target to launch Weird Words, which means you can spend your standard action on Weird Words, then use your move action to start Inspire Courage.
The above tactic requires two rounds of Bardic Performance each round, so you might consider investing in Extra Performance.
Since your Words' damage depends on charisma, you want a high charisma. Since the words are ranged touch attacks, you also want a decent dexterity.
If you plan to use sonic spells, consider taking Spell Focus (evocation) and Greater Spell Focus (evocation). Most of the bard's sonic spells come from the evocation school. For example:
Level 1 has Ear-Piercing Scream, which is a great spell you seem to be familiar with.
Level 2 has Piercing Shriek, which staggers one enemy for one round a level; Shatter, which can destroy nonmagical objects; and Sound Burst, which stuns enemies in a 5-foot radius burst for one round.
Level 3 has Thundering Drums, which deals 1d8 damage per caster level (max 5d8) in a 15-foot cone.
Level 4 has Discordant Blast, which deals negligible damage and allows you to bull rush opponents; Shout, which deals 5d6 damage and deafens in a cone-shaped burst; Sonic Thrust, which allows you to hurl objects or people away from you; and Wall of Sound, which deals damage to people near it and can stop projectiles or small creatures like Wind Wall.
Level 6 has Deadly Finale, a multitarget blast that deals 2d8 initial damage and 3d6 bleed damage; and Greater Shout, which damages, stuns and deafens creatures in a 60-foot cone.
Sonic spells that won't benefit from Spell Focus (evocation) include the Level 4 spell Primal Scream, an abjuration that allows you to recover from paralysis and enchantment affects; the Level 5 spell Deafening Song Bolt, a no-save spell that allows you to hurl three bolts that each deal 3d10 damage and deafen a target; the Level 5 spell Resonating Word, a transmutation that staggers, stuns and damages a single foe over three rounds; and the Level 6 spell Sympathetic Vibrations, a no-save evocation for damaging freestanding structures.
The list of sonic spells is more impressive than I initially thought, but I'd look at them with a critical eye and make sure they'll be useful to you. I'm no expert on the game, but many of the damaging ones seem to deal too little damage to matter at the levels you get them.
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Also I'm given to believe that celebrity and song healer can both stack with sound striker. Is this true can I have all three?
You're correct that you can take Sound Striker with both archetypes. However, if you're in a game with a combat-heavy game, I would suggest sticking to the original Bard. Celebrity trades away Inspire Courage, Bards' most powerful class feature, for a circumstantial bonus to two skills a charisma-focused Bard should be great at already. It's one combat trick-the ability to keep targets fascinated even when they're in danger-isn't available until Level 8, allows a save, and might not be fun for the other players. It's out of combat benefit-the ability to gather crowds-can be done with good roleplaying and a high perform check.
Songhealer gives up Versatile Performance, which makes Bards the best skill monkeys in the game, for a caster level boost on healing items that will only matter if you spend money on high-level healing wands and scrolls. In general, you shouldn't need to do that; a Level 1 Wand of Cure Light wounds should be able to handle out-of-combat healing, and in combat, it's generally best to deal with the enemy instead of healing. The exception is if you have access to powerful spells like Heal, but if you've got those on an item, the caster level should already be decent.
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Not to ask too much but would words of power be an option for this character and as I am not very familiar with that option is it helpful or more of a nuisance than regular casting?
In general, wordcasters trade power, versatility and simplicity for flexibility that exists in theory but rarely in practice. For proof, see Wordcasting Suckage.
Wordcasters do get access to three sonic blasts that might be of interest to you. You can find them by searching The Wordcaster Bard spell list for "sonic." If you want them, you could take the Experimental Spellcaster feat to get access to them on a normal bard.
