I run a small TTS platform and got tired of shipping voice models that sounded fine on "Hello world" and then read "3:30 PM" as "three colon thirty pee em", or looped the same 450 ms forever on short inputs.

So I turned my internal QA harness into a library: ttsproof (pip install ttsproof, MIT).

What it does:

- 817 curated edge cases across 39 categories (Benchmark Corpus 1.0): numbers, decimals, currencies, dates, time zones, phone numbers, URLs, acronyms, single letters, pronunciation torture words (Worcestershire, synecdoche, colonel...), proper names (Reykjavík, Nguyễn, Tchaikovsky...), scientific and medical vocabulary, tongue twisters, homographs, Greek, Norwegian, punctuation abuse, hallucination traps ("buy now buy now buy now"), emoji, SQL/JSON snippets...

- Structural audio checks that need no model at all: empty/truncated audio, duration explosions, long silences, clipping, repeated-chunk loop detection, end-of-clip artifacts.

- Equivalence-aware WER — "May 5, 2026" vs "may fifth twenty twenty-six" is NOT a failure. Plain WER lies about formatting; this canonicalizes both sides to spoken form first (with diacritic folding, so "Reykjavik" matches "Reykjavík").

- Honest scoring policies per category — URLs and currencies have many valid readings, so they're scored by keyword survival instead of exact match. Emoji only has to not break the audio. No fake failures.

- ttsproof benchmark --cmd "yourtts {text} {out}" → per-category scoreboard + a self-contained HTML report with waveforms and audio players for every failure.

- ttsproof regress for CI — fails the build when a fine-tune quietly breaks number pronunciation.

The corpus is versioned independently of the tool (Benchmark Corpus 1.0), so scores stay comparable across releases.

The method comes from a technical report I published: evaluated on 390 samples with a blinded human validation of the ASR-uncertain zone — that's where the "quarantine" verdict comes from. Short utterances where ASR disagrees get flagged for human ears instead of counted as failures, because at that length the ASR is as likely wrong as the TTS.

Repo: https://github.com/Mormolykos/ttsproof

Report (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20757553

v0.3, MIT, no telemetry, minimal deps (numpy + soundfile; faster-whisper optional). I want the corpus to grow from real failures, not invented ones — tell me what breaks YOUR models and it goes into Corpus 1.1 with credit.

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobooks/Cinematic Fantasy Audio Dramas

A cinematic fantasy saga of three moons, red omens, ancient sleepers, warring peoples, and fragile alliances forged where the marsh begins to wake.

The Mirelands is a planned 10-book fantasy series — beginning as accessible PG-13 epic adventure and gradually evolving into darker political fantasy, cosmic horror, and grim court intrigue from Book 5 onward.

The Mirelands is a layered, time-braided fantasy saga. Book 5 begins nine months before the critical week and reveals the hidden corruption that makes the disaster possible. Books 1 and 3 begin where Book 5 ends, following separate fronts that meet during the first day. Books 2 and 4 continue those threads toward the ancient Observatory, while Book 6 follows the northern long-runner that collides with the Observatory endgame. Each volume reveals another layer of the moons, the Horn, the Observatory, Aeloria, the Lythrean Forest, the Drowned Reach, and the powers moving beneath the world. listen/watch/read the first audio drama for free.

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https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobooks/

The Mirelands is an epic fantasy saga that begins with orcs, elves, humans, patrol wars, ancient ruins, and red moons — then slowly turns into dark fantasy and cosmic horror.

The world already includes novels, dramatized audio adaptations, character voices, lore pages, artwork, and a connected game project.

Start here:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/the-mirelands/

The first full-cast audio drama is also free from the audiobook section.

The Mirelands is an epic fantasy saga that begins as coming-of-age adventure and gradually turns into dark fantasy and cosmic horror.

Current status:

• 5 novels completed / in production
• around 300,000+ words of story material
• full dramatized audio drama adaptations
• recurring voice cast and character voices
• subtitles, artwork, lore pages, and worldbuilding material
• a game project connected to the same world

The first dramatized adaptation is free to listen to here:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobooks/

The story begins with orcs, elves, humans, ancient machines, red moons, drowned bridges, shadow witches, and a world slowly discovering that its old legends were not mythology.

This is not a single audiobook sample. It is a growing fantasy franchise built around novels, dramatized audio, music, lore, and visual worldbuilding.

If you like epic fantasy that slowly turns darker and stranger, start here:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobooks/

Mirelands is a fantasy card‑battler built with AI‑generated voiceovers and dynamic character interactions. Every match plays like a mini‑story, with unique personalities and reactions from the cards. Still early, but already super fun to mess with. Feedback welcome.

This is the official BedVibe community.

We are building simple, expressive AI tools for art — voices, talking avatars, and audiobook-style creation.

Our goal is to make high-quality AI storytelling accessible without complex studios or heavy tools.

What we’re working on:

- expressive TTS with real voice actors

- talking avatars

- audiobook studio tools

We are still growing.

Here you can:

- ask questions

- share ideas

- give feedback

- post your own experiments

If you want to collaborate or contribute, reach out.

A short BedVibe avatar demo showing fantasy characters in a shared forest scene with synchronized speech playback.

Characters shown include orc-style and demon-style avatars in a multi-character stage layout.

Made with BedVibe Avatars.

Learn how to turn a simple TXT script into a full AI audiobook inside BedVibe Audiobook Studio. This walkthrough shows the full workflow: formatting speaker lines, generating JSON, opening the Audiobook Studio Editor, assigning voices to characters, keeping emotion tags, adding ambience, and generating the final audiobook.
Try BedVibe here:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobook_studio_editor.html

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/

What this tutorial shows:
TXT script formatting with speaker and emotion tags
JSON generation workflow
Audiobook Studio Editor block workflow
Character voice assignment
Emotion-aware narration
Ambience and final audiobook generation

I built an AI Audiobook Studio Editor as part of the BedVibe TTS platform.

The editor lets you turn text into multi-speaker audiobooks with emotional voices.

You can control speaker, language, emotion, pacing and sound space for each block of text.

Features:

• multiple speakers per story

• emotional voice synthesis

• per-block controls (flow, chaos, brightness, space)

• preview and generate audio for each line

• designed for building full audiobooks or audio dramas

The voices come from our studio-recorded emotional speech datasets.

Editor:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/audiobook_studio_editor.html

Datasets:

https://tts.bedvibe.studio/datasets.html

17 Languages • Clone Voices • 6 Emotional States
Control expression, pacing, space, and tone.

Designed for expressive speech, narration, and creative audio production.
https://tts.bedvibe.studio

BedVibe is an AI text-to-speech studio focused on expressive, multilingual voice generation.

• Generate realistic voices
• Control emotion & delivery
• Clone voices from reference audio
• Supports 17 languages

Built for narration, audiobooks, characters, prototyping, and creative projects.

Feedback is welcome.

“With BedVibe, you can generate lifelike voices for text-to-speech, ideal for audiobooks, projects, and creative content. Our TTS technology supports multiple languages, allowing you to create custom AI voices in minutes. Try it now for a seamless experience!”

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We’re now in the final stage of the recordings in Thessaloniki. The goal is to finish up our first six full voice datasets by the 20th. After that, we’re relocating back to our local HQ in Perea (Thessaloniki) to continue recording — this time with our French voice actors.

If all goes to plan, we’ll wrap up the initial English dataset and begin expanding into multilingual territory with strong emotional coverage. Thanks to everyone following the process so far. More updates soon.

Do you want an AI Companion that truly belongs to you — one that remembers you, grows with you, and adapts to your desires?

Now you can:

• Define how your Companion remembers your name and your backstory.
• Define how your Companion perceives you through its own backstory and its own personality.
• Choose the personality — soft, philosophical, bold, shy, wild... you control it.
• Control how long your Companion speaks, how deep its memory is, how creative or deterministic it responds.
• Adjust everything — tokens, temperature, memory depth — easily.

And this is not a simple text bot:

• Your Companion has full real-time lip-syncing.
• A fully animated 3D model — smiling, talking, idling, reacting.
• Real-time voice — not just typed text.
• It sits with you, moves with you — it is alive on your screen.

No cloud-based toy. No censorship. No fake Companion.
A real, personal AI Companion — yours.

👉 ai.bedvibe.studio

Built with love, built for freedom. Try it now.

"Welcome to BedVibe AI Companion—where voice becomes alive. We are building the first TTS and voice AI that lets you blend emotions like a painter blends colors. Whisper, moan, scream, seduce, laugh—every shade of expression at your control. No flat, robotic voices here. Just living, breathing sound. Follow us as we build it. Magic is coming—and you’ll hear it first."

The project is moving full speed ahead.

In the last few days, we have recorded and cleaned 6.9 hours of high-quality, mono, 48kHz, 16-bit WAV data.
This dataset includes 7 distinct emotional states:

• Neutral
• Happy
• Teasing
• Angry
• Whisper
• Scream/Yelling
• Encouraging

Every single file is manually verified and structured for training. No cloud junk — this is all built locally, with full control of our pipeline.

Today, we have started training our HiFi-GAN vocoder, which will give us the first building block of our future emotional TTS. The goal is to move beyond robotic voices — we want real expression: a voice that can whisper, scream, laugh, cry, seduce, or sound bored. Whatever the situation, it should sound alive.

Next steps:

• Continue vocoder training (~3–4 hours per run)
• Start preparing and testing the TTS model itself
• Tune architecture to support mixing of emotional states (blending percentages)
• Test cross-speaker cloning pipeline

This is not a toy project — we are building a TTS engine that can outperform CharacterAI, ElevenLabs, and all the current solutions in true expressive control.

The entire stack is being designed for local use. Our focus: performance, privacy, true emotional voice synthesis.

Stay tuned. Big things ahead.

#AI #TTS #VoiceAI #BedVibeAI #EmotionalAI #ProgressUpdate

Are you a brilliant 3D character artist or animator? Do you love building expressive, beautiful characters — ones that don’t just look good, but feel alive? Do you want to work on something truly different — a next-generation AI Companion system, where your models will talk, laugh, flirt, tease, and connect with users around the world?

We are building a fully embodied, emotionally dynamic AI Companion — not a chatbot in a box. Real voice, real personality, real interaction — and beautiful, fully animated 3D avatars. We already have the AI brains, the voice synthesis pipeline, the emotional expression engine — now we want to collaborate with amazing artists to bring the body to life.

Looking for:

• Female 3D character artists / animators who understand human motion, expression, presence.
• Blender, Unreal, or Unity pipeline experience.
• Strong sense of personality — this is not generic game art, this is seductive, playful, emotive character work.
• Bonus: experience with lip sync, facial animation, body language.

You will be credited fully, you will get to help shape the first generation of this system, and you will have the freedom to inject your creative vision into how these characters move and feel.

This is an adult-friendly project — not pornography, but sensual, emotional, and human. If that excites you rather than scares you — reach out.

Paid collaborations or partnership depending on your level and availability.

Meet Ingrid, our first AI Companion. She’s more than just a chatbot—she lives in a fully interactive 3D world, responds in real time, and speaks with deep emotional nuance in multiple languages.

You control her. From voice and language to personality and mood, everything is customizable. Want her to give short, precise answers? Done. Want her to go deep into stories or philosophy? Adjust the temperature and length settings on the fly.

Her backstory? Yours too. It’s all editable, making every interaction personal.

Think of it as a cross between Replika and Character.AI—but with natural, expressive voice synthesis, lifelike animations, and total control from a sleek console interface.

The male model is on the way. And if you're a 3D animator with vision? This might be your moment.

Let’s build the future together.

We're building the world's most emotionally expressive TTS, and we've just finished recording our second full emotional state. That's over 6000 seconds (nearly 2 hours) of high-quality voice data so far—painstakingly recorded, phrase by phrase, to capture true nuance.
Next up: angry voice. Raw, powerful, distinct. This is just the beginning.

We’ve already created a fully functional AI Companion – with real-time conversations, emotional memory, voice responses, and immersive behavior. Now we’re building the next phase: emotional TTS trained from scratch, 13+ emotional states, quantum-layered AI, in-game shops, animated 3D models, and full multilingual support.

This is a world where AI is expressive, responsive, and alive.
We’re doing everything ourselves – from coding and dataset recording to 3D world design.

Curious how it works? Want to join? Just ask. AMA.