#vocal synthesis

[florageist]

i had to get this out of my system. just had to.

original sfx by cela VA

utau (fandroid mk.ii eng β) by InochiPM + @projectcoraline

talkloid (voice acting, turned to ustx with SynthV) by me

[moonlovesskunks]

I just uploaded all of my currently public songs to Bandcamp! You can now purchase a downloaded audio file for each one. Doing this supports me a lot more than just streaming on Spotify or other platforms, so I heavily appreciate it if you choose to do so.

[lovesickhospital]

Aiko, the last- but certainly not the least- of the four characters I've designed (or in this case, adapted) that make up the first generation of virtual singers currently under development at ExpressiveLabs exclusively for our upcoming vocal synthesis program, Mikoto Studio!

[the-ghost-of-a-cyber-princess]

need vocal synth companies to start moving back towards character voices

like all these high quality, extremely realistic vocals are cool but grow samey and somewhat boring as the releases go on, esp if they are AI voices that share training data

[projectcoraline]

Today is the last day to get your survey responses in! You have less than 12 hours until we close the responses. Thank you all so much for your time, these responses will help a lot in the future!

We also have an interest check that closes in 3 days (9/17 at 11:59 pm EST)! This interest check is for future vocals, possible merch, and clarity for our New Initiative! Thank you so much for your time!

(Art by @lorogy662!)

[bmpmp3]

although it is a little funny, whenever a new version of a vocal synth comes out on a different engine, the biggest complaint i always see is that the new version "doesn't sound like them". we all just choose our favourite type of engine noise in the end <3

[venacoeurva]

I feel kind of insane that it was a very strong consensus that AI voices are unethical because the original VAs never consented to their voices being used in this way, are not compensated, and their voices are being used for things they never agreed/would never agree to say and it doesn't matter if these uses are commercial in nature or not, it feels very ghoulish, but one of the biggest trends rn is AI covers of songs and they're being pumped out like crazy and people are falling over themselves to defend people who don't have big time production budgets using them instead of hiring someone on Fiverr or imitating the voices themselves or voice clip mixing and sampling pre-existing lines like the olden days. ok. alright. Good to see some of you out there have the moral fortitude of a wet paper straw

[peaches2217]

During the pregnancy I imagine that Peach of course sings to her baby to calm herself and the baby down. Just imagine her sitting in the garden while rubbing her own belly and singing nursery rhymes. And I am asking you, do you have any headcanons about this as well?

Oh-ho, don’t even get me started on the role singing plays in the whole ordeal. Too late! Ya got me started~

Mario’s a really good singer, but for one reason or another he just doesn’t feel comfortable singing around anybody except Luigi or Peach; even then, he doesn’t sing around them much at all. But Peach adores his voice and will occasionally attempt to cajole him into singing for her. He plays along and makes a big show of resisting before ultimately giving her that song she wants, dancing around with her and being generally overdramatic, and it’s a great deal of fun!

But on very rare occasions, he’ll sing for her without provocation. It’s always during moments of quiet intimacy, as though his heart’s just too full and it’ll burst unless he pours it out in song, or whenever she’s under strain and there’s no immediate way he can help her other than to comfort her. And those songs are soft, low, mellow, and nine times out of ten in Italian. When he sings for her like that, all feels right with the world.

Her first real bout of morning sickness sees her violently ill at four in the morning, and Mario leaves her just long enough to send a summon for the head nurse. Peach is curled up on the tiles of the darkened bathroom, and Mario returns with a blanket, sets her head in his lap, and sings softly to her as he strokes her hair. While Mario internally panics over her condition, Peach is wrapped in the warmth of his voice; she feels light and drowsy, like he’s cocooning her in pure comfort, and for a while all of her nausea falls to the wayside.

He does it again that night, laying in bed together after finding out that he’s going to be a father. She can’t understand the words, but the melody is simple and repetitive, and she quickly realizes he’s singing a lullaby. It’s enough to make her cry.

In the coming weeks, she asks him to teach her the same lullabies his mother sang to him and Luigi as children. So he does! He’ll introduce a new one every night until he runs out of lullabies he actually remembers (it HAS been a while since he was a kid). The English lullabies she of course picks up quickly; she’s particularly fond of the one with the diamond ring and looking glass, because, as Mario affectionately points out, showering a baby with expensive gifts it can’t even use is 100% something she would do. The Italian lullabies take more time, so he’ll start by translating them line-by-line (during which he realizes for the first time just how morbid some of them are…) and then singing it slowly so Peach can join in and mimic his intonation.

And since lullabies can get pretty repetitive, he’ll take regular breaks to sing different songs to her so she doesn’t go crazy. The truth is, she could never grow tired of his voice, no matter how many times he repeats the same handful of stanzas… but she certainly won’t object, because he’s sang for her more in the past month than he has in all the time she’s known him.

It feels a bit silly when she thinks about it, two grown adults singing children’s songs back and forth to each other all night. But those songs become part of their daily repertoire, and every time Mario starts sleepily murmuring one with his head on her chest and a hand on her stomach, or every time she approaches him in the middle of the day just to ask if she’s pronouncing a line correctly; every time she hears him humming about Fra’ Simon in the shower and then groaning about it being stuck in his head, and every time he tries to surprise her in the garden after their duties are complete for the day, only to find her singing the same song while rubbing soothing patterns over her belly; they both fall a little bit harder for one another.

[voca-radio]

Hello Vocal Synth Fans

Hi Voca-Fans! We're the Voca-Radio Project, a team of fans and enthusiasts of vocal synthesizers like Vocaloid, SynthV, CeVIO, and we're working to make a legitimate 24/7 online radio featuring the works of Vocal Synth users and Utaite from around the world and make discovering new music more accessible for all of you. Synths like Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto and KAFU have broadened our horizons and we hope to share that culture with more people. If this sounds like something you'd like to support, be sure to check out our first demonstration we'll be streaming on 11/18 at 12PM PST. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6cuU9OiR908?si=huOOVbWBPPOEnbBe

[tomeiame]

Today is her special day~

[deerest-me]

*puts on beret picks up cigarette holder and starts talking about differences between the TTYD remake soundtrack and the original*

[florageist]

Working on a Butcher Vanity cover with MK.II. So far, it's been incredibly fun tuning, but Phoneme Editing has been a MASSIVE pain. Whaddya think so far, chat?

[dkniade]

The gender parameter in SynthV is formant shifting, but which formants I wonder? F1? F2’? A combination of various formants?

(Technically I have Tsurumaki Maki AI lite (the voicebank, with an anime-style character visual) but I forgot to check the exact name of the product so the first one just said it’s the lite version haha..)

I was trying to draw my interpretation of Maki (on the right) but it’s been a while and I didn’t focus too much on details when I drew the one above. I still like her decoration behind her left ear though

[image 3 handwriting transcript: (closer to) canon image. (fit for band music, rock, pop). image 4 handwriting transcript: (my) cool music tuning (rock, alt-rock ballad, metal?) [pointing to her hand] holding mic. [in Japanese] handsome… Tsurumaki [in English] (spare) bow string reel, wound up potential? end transcript]

[image 5 handwriting transcript: Tsurumaki Maki (cool masc tuning). interpretation 1 [pointing to light-brown hair version], interpretation 2 (closer to original colours) [pointing to blonde version], canon [pointing to canon design]. End transcript]

[lovesickhospital]

Sorane Mako, the third of four characters I've designed (or in this case, adapted) that make up the first generation of virtual singers currently under development at ExpressiveLabs exclusively for our upcoming vocal synthesis program, Mikoto Studio!

[the-ghost-of-a-cyber-princess]

I really want to try rerecording my utau but I have such a hard time picking out reclists lol

if anyone has a favorite eng/jpn reclist thats good for dummies (me) pls share

[dead-byte]

So, for those who don't know, I have a video series on YouTube that demonstrates the Vocal Modes and Cross-Lingual Synthesis capabilities of Synthesizer V AI libraries, primarily to help people make purchasing decisions.

I just uploaded videos for the new child vocals, Lin Lai, and Yun Quan. Check them out if you're interested!