🎭vCon Faker
Generate synthetic vCons with LLM-written dialog, TTS audio, and S3 upload — the standard way to create test data.
Repo: vcon-dev/vcon_faker · Streamlit app: vcon-faker.streamlit.app
vcon_faker generates realistic synthetic vCons. It pairs an LLM (OpenAI by default) to write the dialog with a TTS service to render audio, then assembles a vCon with the audio referenced as external media and uploaded to S3.
When to use it
Filling a fresh database with believable test vCons during development.
Building a benchmark corpus for ASR providers.
Demoing vCon-based workflows without exposing real customer data.
Stress-testing pipelines.
Use the synthetic-data consent pattern
Synthetic vCons should be auditably synthetic. The pattern:
Mark every party as synthetic. Set
validation: "synthetic"on each party.Attach a
purpose: "synthetic_data_consent"attachment so downstream consumers can identify the vCon as synthetic in one tag-or-purpose lookup. The attachment body can be minimal — the existence of the purpose is the signal.
Example:
{
"parties": [
{ "name": "Alice", "role": "customer", "validation": "synthetic" },
{ "name": "Bob", "role": "agent", "validation": "synthetic" }
],
"attachments": [
{
"purpose": "synthetic_data_consent",
"party": 0,
"dialog": 0,
"encoding": "json",
"body": "{\"origin\":\"vcon_faker\",\"prompt_version\":\"2026-05-18\"}"
}
]
}For full GDPR-style audit, also attach a Lawful Basis entry using legitimate_interests and expiration: null, documenting the synthetic origin in a proof_mechanism of type external_system. Both attachments together give you the strongest possible "this is not real personal data" signal.
Running locally
The Streamlit app is the easiest entry point. Clone the repo, set OPENAI_API_KEY and S3 credentials in .env, and streamlit run app.py.
For programmatic generation, the underlying module is callable from Python — useful for batch generation in a notebook or pipeline.
See also
Lawful Basis extension — the spec-correct way to declare synthetic origin
Comparing transcription engines, a common use for synthetic vCons
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