Japanese is one of the cheapest and fastest languages to produce for VOCALOID overall, with even multi-voicebank releases seeing their provider spend no more time in the studio than approximately a week. In addition, development occurs significantly faster due to the lesser amount of sounds required. This made updating the voicebanks fairly easy from VOCALOID2 to VOCALOID3 or VOCALOID4.
In addition, sounds such as diaphones and triphones often get acquired from recording data used for the languages main sounds, as a result when triphones were introduced in VOCALOID3, old voicebanks already had recorded the necessary triphones.
The language is fairly straight forward to produce as most sounds are more definite than with languages such as English. The result is that Japanese voicebanks are some of the simplest to make for VOCALOID, as the sounds simply have to be correct and errors in Japanese language skills often are minimum, being a result of general bugs, glitches and the odd mispronunciations. However, the lack of influence from other languages, in addition Japan's isolation from the rest of the world, has contributed much to the precision of the Japanese phonetic system.įar less new sounds entered the language for many centuries, in comparison to other languages such as English which had heavy influences from other languages.ĭue to lack of influence and the isolation of the language, this has worked in favour of the language within VOCALOID. More modern decades have seen many European influences on the language, especially many English loanwords having been adopted into the Japanese phonetic system. Its main influences are Chinese and Old Japanese. It can be noted that fanmade Derivatives and other synthesizer characters such as UTAU are not classified as "VOCALOIDs".īy default, characters are sorted from newest to oldest.The origin of the language is mostly unknown, including when it first appeared in Japan. This includes characters from games with vocals powered by the VOCALOID™ software, as well as privatized vocals. In order for a product to be classified as a "VOCALOID", there should be acknowledgment by the YAMAHA Corporation under their licensing terms and there is a VOCALOID™-powered vocal in development or fully released. The illustration of a vocalist has no effect on the software and is done purely for decorative purposes.įor a list of VOCALOID voicebanks by engine, see Status. The marketing of a vocalist varies by company and some companies may provide their vocalist with a basic profile, backstory, or personality that the consumer can work with. A VOCALOID "vocalist", "character", or "mascot" (unofficial terminology) refers heavily to an illustrated character of a VOCALOID™-powered voice bank, although a product name or miscellaneous representation (like an avatar) can be included.
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