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whatwillyousing · 3 days ago

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vsynth has long since been trending towards the uncanny valley of singing but i feel like its been especially pronounced the past few years now that a higher proportion of banks sound nigh indistinguishable from human people. you can only really tell if youre already deeply familiar with each bank's respective engine

#its stunning the amount of progress vsynth tech has made within the past few years #and its been really interesting too seeing like adachi rei rise in popularity almost as a counter to ai vsynth #its admittedly kind of saddening that the industry preference overwhelmingly pushes realistic vocals over mechanical robot vocals #and i mean i know they do come equipped with parameters you can edit to make them sound robotic again but its genuinely not the same #when you have the concatenation ai built into the software and the phoneme transitions are automatically smoothed over #this isnt to say that ai vsynth has like completely overtaken or threatening the Future of Vocalsynth though #there is a significant portion of people who largely prefer the clunky/mechanical/robotic sound of early vocalsynth #which is why i think rei has gotten as popular as she has #and the cryptonloids in particular are forever stuck in the piapro ether so the most we'll ever see of a miku ai #is just ppl messing with the rvc ai voice cloner LOL #i think if ai truly was causing Creative Bankruptcy or whatever then utau would not remain as wildly popular as it is #and part of the reason why utau still remains so popular is because [teto image] FREE SOFT its free!! anyone can use it & develop their own #vb on it too. so like yes you have the matter of industry pushing out these hyperrealistic voicebanks at an overwhelming pace #but individual fans will remain using/developing their own voicebanks (aggressively points to adachi rei again) so long as public interest #stays. hence why i dont think ''big ai'' in vocalsynth is a real threat or anything #referring to them as ai banks in the first place anyway is such a misnomer bc its not the same as generative ai #i do think that the relative simplicity at which realistic vocals are synthesized now does somewhat obscure the monumental amount of skill #it takes to tune older voicebank because that shit is HARD!!!!!!!!!#like with how synthv works it obscures the technical tuning feats of older engines and how massively massively massively impressive it is #to get anything to sound good let alone Realistic on smth like vocaloid2 #synthv got popular because its ui made tuning a genuinely intuitive process rather than something that makes you want to throw #bricks at your head so its easy to forget tuning (albeit Still hard) was Much much harder #but at the same time.... ai doesnt automatically make tuning better either #actual plain vanilla ai voicebanks often sound very flat and lifeless if no actual tuning is applied i.e. vibrato pitch change tension etc #its such a beautiful complicated lovely artform #anyways my original thoughts. you unfortunately cant get that mechanical/clunky/robotic sound with. any commercial voice synth #released within the past 3 years #i hope more overtly artificial in nature banks along the same genre as rei catch on in popularity

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