Thursday, October 4, 2007

OMG VOCALOID2 FTW!!!!

On a specific night when the sun is about to rise, Mr. No-Lifer (a.k.a justin) asked me to search for a software named Vocaloid 2.

Here comes the technical part:

VOCALOID is a Singing Synthesizer technology and application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody. Yamaha announced its development in 2003 and in January 2004 the first application software product was launched. It was not released as a Yamaha product, but a software package of Vocaloid Singer Libraries developed by third party licensees which included Yamaha’s Vocaloid software.

So far, Leon, Lola and Miriam have been released from Zero-G Limited, UK, while Meiko and Kaito have been released from Crypton Future Media, Japan.

In January 2007 Yamaha announced a new version of the software engine,VOCALOID2, with various major improvements in usability and synthesis quality. Zero-G and others have announced plans to release products powered by the new software engine in 2007. PowerFX have released the first english package that is powered by VOCALOID2, Sweet Ann. Crypton has followed and announced a series of character VOCALOID2 packages to be released, the first being Hatsune Miku. The second package is stated to be released in December 2007 while a third will be somewhere in 2008.
-Quoted from kei from LowYat.net-

Enough of crapping here comes the juicy part, i couldn't believe the songs below were sang by a software =.= it is just damn good, seriously it sings better than Kitlou (our so-called "rain")
Listen to it yourselves, i just can't get enough of Hatsune Miku's voice hahaha, maybe in the future all the songs will be synthesized by this technology (actually there are now frequently used as background singers)

Samples:

Doraemon:


True My Heart ( From Nursery Rhymes, Lump of Sugar)



Beautiful World


Tori no Uta



A tribute to our national anthem (In japanese slang haha)


Simply amazing....though some of them sounded kinda fake, but i bet if they spent more time in tampering her voice, it will surely sound like a real singer singing....
I WAN THIS SOFTWARE ARRRGGGHHHHHH
I might really learn Japanese just to use this software, i might buy it from Amazon too!!! Simply too cool! !!
MOE MOE VIRTUAL VOICES F T W

5 comments:

HK said...

i lol'ed at the negaraku anthem. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... noob bm.

*later this one become a negarakuku incident then you know* hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahaha kelakarnya hahahahahahahaha

The pronounciation 90% wrong somemore hahahahahaha

then again on a serious note, the synthesised voice is really good, very similar to the actual voices.

Sonaco said...

Wah computer sing de? lol amazing... Oo n u manage to find dis stuff in Utube? hrrrmm emm cho..

jukebox said...

from the description it sounds amazing..

i haven't heard the song yet though, cos the Monash comps dont have the relevant plugins and my home internet rosak..

kItlOu said...

i cant...listen... no...soundcard..

Revio said...

Mr. Rain..that's pretty lame =.= save RM 50 buy an average soundcard la =.=