#vocal synthesis

[caffeinated-chaos-bean]

Kinda annoying how one term that's always been used to search a specific topic or content suddenly is being used as a shorthand for something vastly different and unrelated. 😮‍💨

"Utau" has always been used for just that, utau content. Utauloid. The free counterpart to vocaloid.

Yet lately when trying to search for utau content, I'm getting undertale bullshit. It appears that "utau" is being used as a short form for "undertale au". 😒

I legit am having to go and put all sorts of undertale related tags in my blocked list just to filter it out of the content I'm actually trying to get to.

Further proof if needed, because:

UTAU IS NOT UNDERTALE, IT IS A VOCAL SYNTH PROGRAM. DON'T JUST TAKE A WORD OR TAG RELATED TO A SPECIFIC GENRE OF CONTENT AND USE IT FOR SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY UNRELATED.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

[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

[crescendiaofficial]

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[zipzapproductions]

It's time for some Zetto action!

Download Zetto and our other exciting UTAUs here.

Lyrics:

La-ti-ta-ti-la-ti-ta-ti-la-ti-ta-ti-la! (2x) Ikai kutsu jazui suka supika Eto de jazui, kuzune HURA! Ana harui Besu-Burasto! La-ti-ta-ti-la-ti-ta-ti-la-ti-ta-ti-la! (2x)

[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.

[balzabul]

(original song by dana salah)

started working on some rly rough arabic using Felicia's english bank! tbh i could probably get a better approximation w/ her Mandarin vb but im not rly in the mood to learn another set of arpabet rn lol

[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!

[bmpmp3]

outdripped by a fourth grader

[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!)

[aluria-sevhex]

the IBM 7094 is not Miku's grandfather. first, although it sounds cute it's a little annoying how omnipresent Miku is in discussion of vocal synthesis. second, in order for Miku to have the IBM 7094 as her grandfather, she would have to have a parent that would be the IBM 7094's child, and i don't think the IBM 7094 has ever fucked-

[eightyuh]

oh, cool. i got accepted to give a panel at portcon maine this year

[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

[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?

[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

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[tomeiame]

Today is her special day~