"VocaListener" that can reproduce how to sing a model by VOCALOID released on October 19

ByC_pichler

"VOCALOID 3 Job Plugin VocaListener (Bokura)" will appear as a plug-in that imitates the fine nuances of singing when entering singing voice and lyrics into Yamaha's singing voice synthesis technology "VOCALOID". The release date is October 19, the price is 19,800 yen including tax.When "VOCALOID 3" was announcedIt was also announced that we are planning to release 'hoarse' for 'unclear', but for a year or more we finally decided to release it.

Yamaha software "VOCALOID 3 Job Plugin VocaListener" - Yamaha Corporation Yamaha Corporation

Yamaha developed singing voice synthesis software "VOCALOID" in 2003. By inputting lyrics and melody, vocal part can be made, so even if there is no vocalist, VOCALOID will play its role, especially vocal sound source of krypton · future media made using VOCALOID 2 engine "Hatsune Miku"Gathered very high popularity.

However, although it says to synthesize singing voice, since it becomes a singing way that robots sing as it is with a melody as it is, in order to make natural singing voice as human beings are singing, it is necessary to make a length of a lyric or a note , Height, and even more parameters had to be adjusted by the user himself.

Apart from this, research was also conducted to automatically create singing voice synthesis parameters based on the sample voice (singing), but this is due to differences depending on the singing voice synthesis system and sound source data, I had a problem that I can not go over the model in the first place.

Therefore, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology developed and developed "VocaListener (blur)". It is a technique to compare target singing and synthetic singing, and to correct time correspondence and singing style (vibrato, pitch, volume, voiced / unvoiced) etc.

From 2009, in collaboration with Yamaha, efforts toward practical application of "Bokuru" began, as well as Cybernetic Human "HRP-4C dreams" made by AIST sang.

A beautiful girl Robo 'Unmei', which came to be able to sing a human voice and expression naturally according to the model, sangs in the voice of Hatsune Miku


"VOCALOID 3 Job Plugin Voca Listener" can be used only by installing it as a plug-in of VOCALOID 3, it will not work on its own. VOCALOID 3 Editor is necessary when using, separately, a Japanese singing library corresponding to "VOCALOID 2" or "VOCALOID 3" is required.

The usage image looks something like this, automatically analyzing how to sing when you load a singing voice file, and entering lyrics will automatically adjust the singing synthesis parameters of VOCALOID accordingly.


By the way, the singing voice file that can be used as a model is WAV format only (44.1 kHz, 16 bits, monaural one recommended). When an accompaniment or an effect is included, the synthesized singing voice may contain noise.

Operation screen


Starting selling on "VOCALOID STORE" from October 19th. The price is 19,800 yen including tax.