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That was awesome! One question, how do users of vocaloid program her voice? Do they just type in the lyrics for her to sing or syllable by syllable?
Posted by: SporkLift Driver at February 18, 2009 10:42 PM (ofsV2)
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I'm a little fuzzy on it myself. From what I understand, the user specifies the pitch and lyrics (in Japanese), and the software takes care of the rest. The task is made significantly easier by the fact that Japanese words are composed of fairly formulaic syllables. さ is sa regardless (almost) of whatever comes before or after. In this case they tried to find the best fits from the Japanese syllabary to cover the original English lyrics.
Posted by: Will at February 19, 2009 12:09 AM (PDVVE)
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Thanks. The wiki entry was not a lot of help. It did mention a German and an English Vocaloid character. So presumably there are versions of the software that try to handle those languages as well.
Posted by: SporkLift Driver at February 21, 2009 06:17 PM (ofsV2)
Well look what I found...
The folks were rummaging through some old boxes this winter left over from when I moved out. They collected a bunch of books they thought were mine (but I know they aren't, technically, as most were published before I was born), and brought them over in a little sci-fi care-package.
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Did you mean to resize that picture for inline use? Because it's 4.3 megabytes.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 16, 2009 09:03 PM (+rSRq)
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I'm sure I screwed something up. It's been a while since I did any work with images on the blog. With the image already loaded in local cache, I didn't notice any problems or slow loading. Guess I'll have to make a lo-res copy for inline.
Posted by: Will at February 17, 2009 09:32 AM (WnBa/)
