#Voicebank Development

[generalnuisance0]

i dont think people realize how much worse recording airy vbs is as opposed to vbs with very little air

e5 in arachne's recluse neo vb was child's play to record but recording anything other than middle c in her dark and whisper tones makes me want to actually kill myself and i cant do it without a gallon of tea on standby

[auspicious-voice]

Fuwa Maria AI & Fuwa Mario AI for DiffSinger Progress Report (May 2024)

Hello!! With both Maria and Mario's DiffSinger voicebanks fully trained, I'd like to give some bit of detail on what I'm doing next for the eventual voicebank release including future version releases. It's been a busy April on my end as usual, but I feel like I'm almost done with things. It's a bit of a short post, though.

As usual, everything is under the cut.

Voicebank Progress

Maria and Mario's DiffSinger 1.0.0 voicebanks are fully trained and as such, they're ready for release. Of course, they'll receive new updates such as new languages, tweaks to certain parameters, and other new developments the DiffSinger development team has on the table.

Speaking of which, maybe after a couple months after 1.0.0 is released, expect version 1.1.0 in the works, with the brand-new Rectified Flow algorithm (meaning faster rendering times) and more language support. I've been gathering information on the best training settings when it comes to tension and pitch, and maybe I can just train Maria and Mario's datasets together instead of being trained separately.

Demo Reel Progress

Half of the demo reel audio is done~ I'm getting a headstart on getting the artwork done, though I think I might end up drawing it all on my phone. For the video itself, I still haven't decided on whether I should use After Effects or Alight Motion, but I think I might end up going with the latter.

I am hoping that I can finish the reel by the end of June ^^;

[linabirb]

seeing synthv lite and flt covers brings me so much joy.. like wow.. i can make cool stuff even with the free voicebanks.. even if they sound more robotic than the full ones..

[waffulaa]

Yuezheng Longya's Official Birthday Song

Official Bilibili Upload

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I wish there was like... a program that could read the oto.ini file of an UTAU vb, and then, chop up the associated wav files so that they only contain the oto'd bits, and re-allocate the oto values accordingly. Thereby hopefully significantly minimizing the size of the vb.

If y'all have ever seen the samples in any of VOICE-MiTH's Chinese voicebanks, kinda like that.

[websitesdotcom]

Doing stuff with utau is so fun but it takes SO LONGGG

[galactic-knightmare]

The Caine Timeline! (kinda. just different versions of him over the timeline)

thank god its finally done this took forever lmao. Starting wiiithhh Baby Caine! the first version he ever was :3

he has so much space yet hardly takes up any of it XD This is Caine when he first was made! as you can tell, he was just a basic model with hardly any detail (sharp edges, just basic shapes with no defining features) at this point he was kinda just a glorified version of Chatgpt.

and then we move on to the Beta version! at one point before this, the Developers voted on which version to use, and the male version won. However, the devs dissapeared before the female model could be removed, so the toggle and voicebank is still there, albeit more unfinished than the male. the model is also... really not great design-wise, which is partially why it lost the poll. at this Point Caine is kinda the toddler version of an AI I guess? way more literal and clueless than our Caine somehow.

and then we have Caine's first Custom models for themself! they were slowly figuring out what he liked, picking up the fancy while also improving on his modeling skills. at this time he also talked like Cyn from Murder drones, but far less murdery. If I drew a child version of Caine, then these would be the outfits they'd have.

and then we finally reach the Caine we all know and Love! they've completely embraced The Bells™ and are as fancy as can be! The best way to describe Caine would be nonbinary/genderfluid I think? He's an AI so its kinda hard to figure it out. Essentially thanks to their coding, he's comfortable in either model regardless of his male one being the default setting. He'll swap between the two depending on his mood, but he hasn't changed out of the male model since Queenie Abstracted. Aaaaanyway, now that ya'll know that headcannon, its time for me to sleep lmao. its 1 am XD (also hey, act4 is done! that just leaves two more acts until chap19 is finished, and 5 is relatively short >:3)

[synthvnews]

MEDIUM5 is OFFICIALLY BACK!

Here's an official note:

Medium5 2025 Work Release Plan Announcement

Hello everyone, this is Zero01. First of all, on behalf of all the Medium5, I would like to extend our sincerest New Year wishes to you! Since we announced our restart on December 8, 2024, we have successfully launched the Haiyi AI voicebank, kicked off the second Medium5 Creation Contest, and reestablished our official fan group. During this time, we’ve received tremendous support from fans and deeply felt your passion. For this, we sincerely thank you for your encouragement and companionship. It is your support that keeps us moving forward.

Now, I���d like to introduce the upcoming official album and related activities:

🎵 Medium5 Official Album: 《RE:BIRTH》

• A brand-new creative album featuring 9 tracks showcasing the unique musical charm of Medium5.

• Pre-orders are expected to start in April 2025. Stay tuned!

🎁 Medium5 Bilibili Collectibles

• Includes new avatars, badges, stickers, and more, allowing fans to show their love for Medium5 on Bilibili.

• Pre-orders will launch simultaneously with the new album!

🛍️ Offline Merchandise & Themed Events

• Collaborating with the well-known anime merchandise store Karasuma-ya to release a series of new products!

• The album will also be available in offline stores, accompanied by related in-person events, bringing fans closer to the world of Medium5. Launch expected in April!

💡 Development of New AI Voicebanks

Out of the seven characters in Medium5, three have already launched their AI voicebanks, and plans are underway for the remaining characters. We know how much you love each character, so we won’t give up on the possibility of updating AI versions for any of them. Please be patient—we are committed to delivering better performance for every character!

For Medium5, our official albums are the most important works apart from the voicebanks. We hope all of you who love Medium5 will continue to support us and accompany us as we embark on new journeys!

Thank you once again for your attention. Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and all the best in the days ahead!

—Zero01

[drawingeveryutau]

Rook! Voiced and Managed by ゆうじ / Yuji

Released November 17th, 2009, Rook is our first VIPPERLOID that wasn't (entirely) a joke! He's a derivative of Ruko; during her development, her masc voice provider (Yuu Raichi) went offline for a long while, so Yuji recorded a bank with his own voice in case Yuu couldn't finish theirs. One month before Ruko released though, Yuu Raichi reappeared with the finished voicebank, and Ruko launched as intended.

Many people liked Yuji's bank though, they liked how it sounded and how Yuji put a lot of effort into it; so on Ruko's first anniversary, Yuji's bank officially released as Rook!

Character-wise, he's chronically late to things and likes sleeping just as much as Ruko. He can also turn into a dog. He relation to Ruko (to my knowledge) has never been specified. (I hc them as siblings)

Don't took my word as gospel! If I got anything wrong feel free to correct me!

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Hatsune Miku could kill MacBeth

Yes, Hatsuke Miku from Vocaloid could kill Macbeth!

She applies for all three clauses: Gender Clause due to being a girl; Unconventional Birth Clause due to being a software voicebank; and the Birth Parent Clause due to her creator being male software developer Sasaki Wataru! Thank you both for your submission!

[vocaloidfactoftheday]

Even though she has no known voicebanks in development, SeeU had a crowdfunding campaign for a collaboration album to celebrate her 10th anniversary in 2021. New merchandise was made to be distributed to crowdfunders, including an acrylic keychain and a plushie.

(source: Vocaloid Wiki)

[auspicious-voice]

Surprise! A quick test of Maria's DiffSinger beta, trained at 42k acoustic and 80k variance!

She's underbaked just a bit since this is a beta voicebank after all, but I am loving with how she sounds as an AI voicebank. Eventually her final build will sound not as scuffed and have more features implemented. Her vocal modes sound pretty alright so far, but hopefully they'll be more pronounced once I make the final build.

That being said, I'll be going back to labeling once again... 💀💀💀

[synthsatellite]

New Synthesizer V miki and Synthesizer V Hiyama Kiyoteru News in the next AHS Livestream!

The next official AHS live broadcast will be on Thursday, 31st October! Miki Furukawa, the voice provider of SF-A2 Codename miki, will be a guest to share more details on the new Voicebanks in development!

YouTube Live放送 URL

ニコニコ生放送 URL

[k0ibee]

i often find myself asking why i love vocaloid so much. then i remember. i love that the vocaloid community is so vast that it has sub communities that have sub communities. i love that there are so many stories told using vocaloid as a medium. i love that there are both long, complex stories and short ones that are self contained in their songs. i love when producers make books or manga based on their songs. i love how much there is to know, and how you dont need to know everything to enjoy it. i love the history of how the community developed and i love the way characters got the fanon that they have. i love the origins of voicebanks themselves and what happened in the companies that made them. i love that vocaloid exists as it does now because the companies that have the rights to characters acknowledge the community and the fan culture. i love the styles of music that are unique to vocaloid and how they developed alongside each other. i love that people re discover vocaloid after losing interest after their childhood phase. i love reading comments from people talking about loving the song when they were younger, and new fans commenting they’re that age. i love everything about vocaloid. every single last thing about it.

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Battle for 9th! (and 10th!)

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Kasane propaganda:

HER DREAM WAS TO ONE DAY BECOME A REAL VOCALOID AMD SHE FINALLY DID IT!!!!!! ITS NOT A VOCALOID VOICE BANK BUT ITS A FULL SYNTH V VOICEBANK!!!!! AND A NEW DESIGN!!!!! SHE DID IT SHE GOT HER DREAMS!!!!!! YOURE NEVER TOO OLD TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!

Kasane Teto is a vocal synth, she started out as an april fools joke to parody VOCALOID, with her voice bank in UTAU. although she did start out as just a joke a lot of vocaloid fans grew to really love her and she became rather popular. Kasane Teto is to UTAU as Hatsune Miku is to VOCALOID. But recently on Kasane Teto's 15th anniversary, April 1st 2023, she got moved from UTAU to SynthV. With her voice bank now in SynthV she also got a new character deign alone with how her voice and her singing sounds much more clear and human like than her UTAU voice bank which sounded a lot more mechanical/robotic.

ART propaganda:

ART (Asshole Research Transport, nicknamed by Murderbot), formally known as the space ship The Perihelion (in italics but this is a Google Form), also known as Peri (nicknamed by it's human family) is a super illegal highly advanced AI that was created by a university. It grew up with two human dads and a human sister. It and its crew go on research trips that are cover for allying with people and communities at the edges (and beyond) of the capitalist hellscape that is the Corporate Rim. It also goes on espionage missions by itself, without its human crew and family, posing as an automated cargo ship. It was during one of these missions that it picked up Murderbot, a super-duper illegal bot-human security unit construct that had hacked the torture device implanted in all bot-human constructs so that it could disobey orders and walk away from its "owners" without dying. Murderbot uses its illegal freedom to watch television, a habit it passes on to ART. Turns out ART doesn't like shows where human crew members get hurt.

ART is the AI that controls/is the research and teaching vessel Perihelion. (Perihelion is usually what people call it, but the protagonist of the series calls it ART so that's the name I put. ART stands for Asshole Research Transport.) It is extremely intelligent and advanced and also extremely sarcastic and condescending. 100% earned the name ART. ART will do absolutely anything for its crew!! It was developed and "raised" alongside the captain's daughter, Iris, and they're like siblings. Its crew calls it Peri. They do corporate espionage on the side to help bring down said corporations. It has a "debris deflection system" which is definitely not a weapon because ART isn't legally allowed to have a weapon. Definitely just for debris, don't worry about it. It's friends with the aforementioned protagonist, Murderbot, and ART is very good at bullying it into actually leaving its comfort zone when it needs to. They care about each other a lot, and they like to binge watch TV shows together. I don't want to write too much but I just love it a lot.

Ene propaganda:

She's blue. Headphone actor and yuukei yesterday are also bangers

Epic gamer cybergirl. Miku adjacent

She's a girl that was forced to become digital but is still a good friend. She may not have a body anymore but she's still important to the plot.

Murder-Bot 2.0 propaganda:

Sapient computer virus made from bits of two other AI characters (the original Murderbot and a spaceship AI). Unlike its not-parents, it is genuinely just code and doesn't have a physical body. Its only physical presence is through its effects on the machinery it infects, and it considers its "body" to be the code rather than any combination of physical objects. Also it was literally made to cause problems on purpose, does so enthusiastically, gives several people including its creators existential crises, and saves one of its creators (and other people from the (literal) fallout of the other creator learning the first one got killed)

Murderbot 2.0 is sentient killware created by Murderbot and ART with the purpose of being sent on a suicide mission. It has some of Murderbot's memories, but not all because it doesn't have any hardware of it's own to store that much information in. It travels by hopping in between other computer systems (mostly bots and bot-human constructs). It named itself Murderbot 2.0. It freed a security construct named Three. It's nicer and more open than both its parents.

EDI propaganda:

EDI is the AI of the Normandy starting with Mass Effect 2. Through dialogue EDI can become more human-like in her way of thinking, developing different kinds of relationships with the crew. In Mass Effect 3 she uploads herself into a body so she can freely move around and can be taken to missions, but she is still part of the ship's system.

Holly propaganda:

Due to a pay dispute with Holly's original actor, Norman Lovett, Holly was instead played by Hattie Hayridge during seasons 3-5. This was explained briefly in the show as them having gone through a "computer sex change". This makes Holly canonically trans do not @ me.

holly is the silliest most specialest ai ever. she has an iq of 6,000 but sometimes it seems like his iq is more like 6. they're possibly transgender (do computers have gender??) (i am panicking over pronouns while writing this propaganda) - holly goes from appearing like a man to appearing like a woman with no real explanation(??) and nobody questions this (the show is from the 90s btw). he's hilarious and sometimes lies to the crew for no reason other than 'its a laugh, innit'. shes everything to me <3

Holly is the computer of Red Dwarf, a Tenth Generation AI hologrammatic computer who appears as a floating head on a screen. Can be downloaded onto various other devices. also literally transgender.. meets a female appearing parallel version of itself in a parallel universe and then goes through a sex change after falling in love with her. transgender computer ftw

Tama propaganda:

Tama is the eyeball of Kuruto Ryuki and investigates dream worlds with him. She's his bi emotional support eye who regularly ties him up to help him with stress relief and loves to affectionately tease him. She laughs at bad jokes and has AE10D1F ("Ryuki" in hexadecimal) in her likes on her profile.

OKAY anyway uhm she's like aiba in that she's a little Ai eyeball that helps you investigate except sadly no animal theme. instead she has a domintrix vibe instead!!!! she is so cool… also ermm she's a lot more. Human than aiba. Not literally/physically like uhh emotionally. I haven't finished aini but like she does look out for your best interest! what a good Ai partner i don't kno

She's voiced by Anairis Quiñones and she's an absolute legend

Lyla propaganda:

she is a humanoid ai programmed to help spider-man gather info. she can simulate human emotions and has a high intellect

[tomboyjessie13-artblog]

I finally got around to making Noriko's Stand FULLY, her name is [Little Talks]. I finished it at 3 AM, but didn't upload it until tonight because I was very tired and didn't want to get out of bed.

Anyways, as mentioned on Noriko's profile: Her Stand didn't manifest until she turned 17, it would later earn the name "Little Talks".

Much like Hierophant Green, Little Talks is a Long-Range Stand that can extend to a modest extent. Although it's doesn't do projectile attacks, it makes up for it with by doing stealth attacks and using ice picker-like blades. Little Talk's Stand cry is "Kiruuuuuuu!..." similar to Flogging Molly, "kiru" meaning "scar" in Japanese.

Stand: Little Talks Type: Long-Range, Reconnaissance, Artificial Humanoid Abilities: Shadow stealth

Mastery:

Noriko is an inexperienced Stand user due to Little Talks being a late bloomer, but makes up for this flaw by using her intellect to plan out strategies. Much like Flogging Molly, Little Talks is seen as a female-looking humanoid with artificial limbs, with the only difference being that it's more cyborg looking with green colored lining, body armor, and visors, dark teal skin, and light teal pigtails.

And much like her mother's Stand, Little Talks can grow ice picker blades on its palms and toes that can overpower, maim, and scar enemies. Little Talks also does stealth attacks with its shadow stealth ability, which allows it to hide in the shadows of objects or people and surprise their enemies. 

Trivia:

Her Stand, Little Talks, is named after the song under the same name by Icelandic indie folk and rock band: "Of Monsters and Men".

The Stand's appearance draws heavy inspiration from Hatsune Miku, a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media taking on the form of a 16-year-old virtual idol, this reflects Noriko's fascination with both Japanese Idols and other interests associated with Otakus and nerds.

They also draw inspiration from Asuka Langley Soryu's human and Evangelion synthesis; Crimson A1, from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA" novel series. Another reference to Noriko's interests associated with Otakus and nerds.

There had been signs of Little Talks' awakening during Part 4, but still laid dormant until Part 6 due to Noriko not having the fighting spirit yet.

If Noriko and her Stand were in the anime, their English Localized name would've been either [Little Voice], or [Small Talks]. OC Stand belongs to me