Vocaloid 3, voice Synthesizer

Voicaloid is a  voice Synthesizer program developed by Yamaha Corporation now on its 3rd version. Vocaloid 1 was releaced in january 2004 but it was under development since March 2000, although the program is mainly Japanese but was organically made only available in English , its also has supporting languages for English Korean chines and Spanish

People know Vocaloid better for its bi-product and not for the program it self, "Vocaloids",, virtual characters.. a face to the voice so to speak the main and best know ones are Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin/Len (twins)... but they didn't show up until Augast/December 2007 (with Vocaloid 2)

where as in face the two origami official default Vocaloids are Leon and Lola , developed my Zero-G and they are both English, they are also the only two "Voice banks"(i'll talk about Voice banks later)  that come with Vocaloid 2 Demo

the software works by letting user type in lyrics/ melody onto a virtual key bored to generate a virtual singer by using synthesizing technology, the singers or "Voice banks" are provided by real singers or actors, and each "voice bank" is sold separately to the program ~yes you need to buy the program~  and once you have your "singer in a box" you are ready to make music...kinda




The software was intended for professional musicians but computer music users can also use it because the only real limitation to the program is your own skill as song writing and  rhythm., as said befor you need one voice bank to work,, and you cant simply make your own, as the data stored in the Voice banks contain all possible possible combinations of phonemes of the target language. 


now since its a synthesizing program, the end result of the singers sound robotic, but whats creepy is, a few of the Vocaloids support breathing. example being one of the newest vocaloids,, Oliver an English speaking vocaloid,, and also the youngest vocaloid/voice provider at the age of 13,. each Voice banks  is made for a spasific pitch, mood and temp of songs, like Kagamine Rin is mainly J-pop where as Kagamine Lenis more light rock, ironic since their voice providers is the same person. now there is a downside to this program,, the voice pitch can hurt at times but...


above is Oliver, his most of not all of his songs are sung in a slow melody rhythm relate  to some kind of physical or emotional pain, a lost love maybe? but a reason of this is because hes really a monster. think Frankenstein's monster, that also the reason why he had bad-aids, 

to my left is SeeU, she can sing in noth Korean and Japanese, her songs are mainly in a fun mid range pitch and mostly in a pop/J-Pop style




since the release of Hatsune Miku the Program has produced over 100,000 sings and counting, and as i said before, bi-products, i mentioned in a previous blog about MMD...as well as some arcade dance games and also a PsP game named "project deva"












http://www.vocaloid.com/en/