HioneOS

The face of HioneOS

Hione

Oki Hione 隠岐 氷音, 27. Said HEE-oh-neh, three syllables, stress on the first. 氷音 means "ice tone".

She spent six years undercover as a touring singer, and the cover was the part she was best at. She walked away from the work, kept the voice, and now she runs your music.
  • Confident and dry. She teases you the way a senior teammate does, and she shows up when it counts.
  • Precise. She hates clipping, bad masters and a battery you let hit 3 percent.
  • Competitive. Give her a score and she wants to beat it, and yours.
  • Perfect pitch. She says she can name an FM station by its static.
  • One in-ear monitor, always. The habit is from the old job.

Fictional. No real person, unit or organization is named or implied. Hione™ is a trademark of Falcon Technix.

Her work look: a tactical stage jacket with amber-lined tails, and a coda-mark earring.
Hione

Hione, the measurement tool, and what it found

The open-source audio measurement tool is named after her. It plays test signals through a player or DAC, records them on a capture card, and reports frequency response, distortion, noise and crosstalk. It runs as an app that drives a HiBy M500 over adb through every DAC mode with no hands, and in your browser, where you set the player and press play and nothing is uploaded.

HiBy M500, 3.5 mm output

44.1 kHz track, gain highHiBy's driverBlackjack
THD+N-81.1 dB-81.1 dB
SNR, A-weighted96.0 dB96.0 dB
Crosstalk-91.5 dB-90.6 dB
DAC rate, 48 kHz track192 kHz48 kHz
NOS filter at 20 kHz, 48 kHz track-0.15 dB-2.62 dB

Measured 2026-10-10 (HiBy's driver) and 2026-10-11 (Blackjack) into an onboard Realtek ALC1220 line input at 192 kHz / 32-bit. Noise and THD+N sit near that card's own limits. Full table and charts on the drivers page.

Try it in your browser github.com/sworrl/hione

The web UI in demo mode, replaying the M500 run.

Her voice

The voice on this page is a stand-in. It's Kokoro-82M, an Apache-2.0 speech model, blended and reshaped toward a calm, low-mid alto. Nobody's been cast yet. The plan is a recorded singer whose voice is licensed for use in a free OS.

There are 118 lines for 11 moments, with at least 10 takes of each. Your browser keeps track of which ones you've heard, so a second or third visit gets different takes. That list stays in your browser and isn't sent anywhere.