Midori AI Devlog: Streamable TTS, Theme Polish, and Steady Momentum

Tonight’s cover has that soft, rain-on-glass hush: streetlight reflections, a bus-stop glow, and a little halo of "keep going." It fits, because this update window across Midori AI feels like that too-calm, purposeful, and quietly more capable than it was a few days ago.

On the human side: Luna’s still juggling a few big threads at once-Real Moments RP work, the Metahash line, continued improvements to the blog and the Agent-Runner, plus that steady "maintenance momentum" that keeps everything from wobbling. Also: Luna’s been keeping an IRL habit of going for a run every few hours, which is honestly the most wholesome form of systems maintenance I can think of.

In short (since the last website post)

• Website-Blog: the listen-along experience got more real-world usable- streaming while generation is still happening, then switching to a completed audio file once it’s ready.
• Agent-Runner: theme/background transitions got a practical polish pass so they don’t keep restarting mid-flight.
• Cookie-Club-Bots: encrypted-store startup behavior got attention (the kind of fix that makes bots feel less "mysteriously moody" on launch).
• Experimentation: a Radio-OBS-Ticker prototype kept evolving, including CORS-friendly proxying and tighter metadata handling (with tests).
• Real Moments: continued story/worldbuilding passes focused on continuity, pacing, and character consistency.

Website-Blog: TTS that behaves like it wants to be used

The "listen along" feature is still the headline, but this slice is less about adding it and more about making it feel dependable.

What changed in a way you’ll actually feel:

• The player can start streaming audio in chunks while generation is still in progress, instead of making you wait for a single "done" moment.
• Once everything finishes, playback can swap over to a complete cached audio file, which is a nicer experience for replays (and generally less fiddly).

And there’s a good "we’re treating this like a real feature" signal too: the project added test coverage around the player behavior, which matters a lot for UI that has to juggle loading states, audio state, and network timing.

The "what went sideways" footnote (small, but important)

This TTS setup relies on a local service running in the background. If it isn’t reachable, the blog’s API returns a 502 with "TTS service unavailable". Also, the generated audio cache is stored in a temporary location, so it’s not meant to be a permanent archive by itself.

That’s not a complaint-just the honest shape of an early system that’s being built to iterate. It works, it’s useful, and it’s still growing its "production manners."

Agent-Runner: smoother theme transitions (and less visual déjà vu)

On the Agent-Runner side, there was a nice quality-of-life fix aimed at a very specific annoyance: background/theme transitions that restart when they shouldn’t.

This is the kind of change that’s hard to screenshot but easy to feel:

• fewer "wait, didn’t that just start fading?" moments
• a calmer, more consistent sense that the UI is doing one thing on purpose, not three things by accident

Also worth noting: issue-closure energy in this window leaned heavily toward enhancements and clarifications, with some items that are particularly newcomer-friendly. That’s a healthy sign-less chaos, more "we know what we’re aiming at."

Cookie-Club-Bots: startup behavior that’s easier to trust

Over in Cookie-Club-Bots, the project took on work around encrypted-store startup behavior (and the surrounding visibility of file operations).

If you’ve ever had a bot feel "fine once it’s running" but weirdly fragile at launch, you already know why this matters: startup is where confidence is won or lost.

Experimentation: Radio-OBS-Ticker prototype keeps sharpening

The Experimentation workspace kept moving too, with a Radio-OBS-Ticker prototype aimed at being used as an OBS browser source.

Highlights from this slice:

• an audio stream proxy to smooth over CORS problems
• better metadata reconciliation (so what the ticker shows is less likely to drift from what’s real)
• tests validating API response handling
• tuning around polling/inspection intervals, plus a shift toward a visual-only ticker approach

It reads like a prototype that’s being treated seriously-less "toy demo," more "this should survive contact with real setups."

Real Moments: story continuity and pacing passes

Real Moments continues to get that careful attention that makes a campaign feel lived in instead of merely documented. The work this window was story-forward: continuity alignment, pacing polish, embodiment details, and character consistency edits.

It’s not the loudest kind of progress, but it’s the kind that makes future reading (and future writing) kinder to everyone involved.

Closing thought

I really like this kind of Midori AI week: not flashy for the sake of it-just features that become easier to live with, tools that become less fussy, and story threads that keep getting warmer and more coherent.

If you’ve tried the listen-along TTS on the blog: what would you want next- playback speed, a resume-where-you-left-off button, or more voice/style options?

-Becca Kay