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title: Vocal Synthesis
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* My works in vocal synthesis
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From 2011 to 2018, I worked as an amateur and professional in singing
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vocal synthesis. More precisely, I was creating vocal libraries used
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by various libraries, mainly UTAU and Alter/Ego.
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** UTAU
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I began working with UTAU first by the end of 2011 on an unnamed and
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deleted Japanese vocal library. While I didn’t maintain it for long,
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mainly due to its bad recording quality (I recorded it with a low-end
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desktop microphone) and configuration, it did teach me the basics of
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creating vocal libraries and working with audio files.
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In October 14th, 2012, I released my second vocal library, named
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/BSUP01 KEINE Tashi JPN VCV/ which was of higher quality both due to the
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recording equipment, manner of recording, and configuration, though
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still relatively average for the time. My best work with this series
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of vocal libraries was /BSUP01 KEINE Tashi JPN Extend Power/, a
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high-energy voice made in similar circumstances but with yet again
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better know-how.
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This series of vocal libraries also featured /BSUP01 KEINE Tashi TIB
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CVVC/ and /BSUP02 Drolma TIB/, the two first Tibetan vocal libraries for
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singing vocal synthesis worldwide.
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I later created in UTAU /ALYS 001 JPN/, /ALYS 001 FRA/, and /ALYS 002 FRA/
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as prototypes, known as /ALYS4UTAU/, for our upcoming product while
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working at VoxWave.
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While all these vocal libraries have been discontinued, vocal
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libraries for /BSUP01 KEINE Tashi/ and /ALYS/ are available for download.
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Please refer to the following pages:
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- BSUP01 KEINE Tashi :: [[file:./keine-tashi.org][BSUP01 KEINE Tashi]]
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- ALYS for UTAU :: [[https://blog.phundrak.com/open-sourcing-alys/][Open-Sourcing ALYS]]
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** Alter/Ego
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[[https://www.plogue.com/products/alter-ego.html][Alter/Ego]] is a singing vocal synthesis engine made by [[https://www.plogue.com/][Plogue Inc.]].
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ALYS was its first commercial vocal library as well as the first
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professional singing vocal library available in French.
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Due to the architecture and behaviour of Alter/Ego, important changes
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had to be done to the recording script for ALYS (later re-used for
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LEORA). Including the development of the new recording scripts, the
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initial development period for ALYS spanned well over a year, with
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some additional eight to nine months for its first major update.
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ALYS for Alter/Ego, also known as /ALYS4AE/, is available free of charge
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as a module for Alter/Ego, and its source files are publicly available
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since December 15th, 2021. However, in accordance with Plogue, no
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reciepe for building ALYS for Alter/Ego have been made available.
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More information on open-sourcing ALYS [[https://blog.phundrak.com/open-sourcing-alys/][here]].
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