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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
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the recording equipment, manner of recording, and configuration,
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though still relatively average for the time. My best work with this
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series 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
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for singing vocal synthesis worldwide.
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I later created in UTAU *ALYS 001 JPN*, *ALYS 001 FRA*, and *ALYS 002
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FRA* as prototypes, known as *ALYS4UTAU*, for our upcoming product
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while 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
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download. Please refer to the following pages:
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- **BSUP01 KEINE Tashi**: [BSUP01 KEINE Tashi](keine-tashi.md)
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- **ALYS for UTAU**: [Open-Sourcing
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ALYS](https://blog.phundrak.com/open-sourcing-alys/)
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## Alter/Ego
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[Alter/Ego](https://www.plogue.com/products/alter-ego.html) is a
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singing vocal synthesis engine made by [Plogue
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Inc.](https://www.plogue.com/). ALYS was its first commercial vocal
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library as well as the first professional singing vocal library
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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
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charge as a module for Alter/Ego, and its source files are publicly
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available since December 15th, 2021. However, in accordance with
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Plogue, no reciepe for building ALYS for Alter/Ego have been made
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available.
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More information on open-sourcing ALYS
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[here](https://blog.phundrak.com/open-sourcing-alys/).
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