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Voice calls work in the Android app, not in the game itself. You speak, the Zoi answers out loud in their own voice.
Making a call#
1Open a Zoi's card in the app and tap Call, or tap the phone in a DREAMDM chat. Your own Zoi's card has Call too.
2Tap the green button to start. It rings for a few seconds while the Zoi takes out their phone, then they pick up.
3Press the big record button to talk, and press it again to send. The red button ends the call.
Voices#
- Each Zoi gets a voice that fits them, and you can choose a different one per Zoi.
- Speech follows their mood.
- Your call history is kept per Zoi.
Your own voice services#
In Settings > Voice provider, pick Custom provider to use your own services instead of Dreami's. The page works like the AI text provider page.
- Listening: this phone's own speech recognition, or a Whisper-style service (an OpenAI-compatible address and key).
- Voice connection: OpenAI-compatible (OpenAI, OpenRouter and others) or ElevenLabs, then your address, key, model and voice. The Model and Voice boxes take typing, and Choose opens a list.
- Load voices lists what the service offers, Test connection checks your key without making a sound, and Save keeps it. Give it a preset name to switch between services in one tap.
- Tap the play button next to a voice to hear it. Picking a voice never plays one. A sample made by your service may use a little of your credit (ElevenLabs' own sample clips are free).
- To give one Zoi a voice of their own, open their card and tap Voice. Everyone else keeps the default.
- With ElevenLabs there is a Style tags switch: it colours each sentence with how the Zoi feels. It only works with models that understand them, Eleven v4 and v3.
Some services can't list their voices. Dreami then shows the usual ones, or you can type the voice's name.
Good to know#
- Calls last up to 15 minutes each. Dreami Voice minutes are counted over a rolling 30 days (20 on Free; unused ones aren't saved up). They show in Settings > Patreon, or on the Dreami AI card if you pasted a key. When they run out, the call goes on as text until they reset.
- A Zoi who is asleep, in jail, blocked or too young for a phone can't be called. The app tells you which.
- Zois can ring you, too. Set how often, or switch it off, in Settings > Autonomy.
- Each spoken reply is generated, sent to you and not saved: audio isn't stored on Dreami's servers. Dreami Voice has no custom voices.
- Zois can end a call. If a Zoi is caught in a fire while you talk, they panic and may hang up.
- Set How to say your name under You if a voice mispronounces it (for example Neev for Niamh). Texts keep your real name.
TipIf a call stalls, check the status page. The Voice row shows whether the voice server is up.
TipIf listening on this phone keeps missing words, set Listening to your own Whisper service. It records the whole time, with no gaps.