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Titolo: news: stiamo arrivando al "sintetizzatore di cantanti"?!?

da Kvr-vst.com 
(non mi va di tradurla...)
Yamaha have been showing an early version of their new singing
synthesis technology at Musikmesse in Frankfurt. Named Vocaloid, the
software synthesizes the sound from "vocal libraries" of recordings of
actual singers, retaining the vocal qualities of the original singing
voices to reproduce real sounding vocals.
By just inputting the melody and words on their PCs, users can produce
the vocal parts for their pieces with no further work. The synthesized
sound retains the vocal qualities of the original singers voices
because Vocaloid synthesizes the sound from the "vocal libraries" of
recordings of real people singing. The software also features simple
commands that allow users to add expressive effects such as vibrato
and pitch bend to their synthesized vocals.
Further development of the range of available vocal libraries will
make the production of songs using vocals in a wide range of voice
qualities possible using Vocaloid. Currently Vocaloid can generate
singing in Japanese and English.
Yamaha intends to concentrate on licensing Vocaloid to selected
producers of vocal libraries and software marketers. The company has
already agreed on the basic framework of a license agreement with a
number of sampling CD development and marketing firms, including
Crypton Future Media in Japan, Best Service in Germany and Zero-G in
the UK.
Yamaha hopes to commercialise Vocaloid by the end of 2003 or early
2004.
Vocaloid uses Frequency-Domain Singing Articulation Splicing and
Shaping, a vocal (singing voice) synthesizing system developed by
Yamaha.
With this system, the "Singing articulations" (Collections of voice
snippets, such as phrases, and snippets of vocal expression variations
like vibrato) needed to reproduce vocals are collected from custom
produced recordings of accomplished singers and put into a database
after conversion into frequency domains.
To synthesize vocal parts, the system retrieves data consisting of
voice snippets, applies pitch conversion, and splices and shapes them
to form the words of a song as input by the user. As this processing
is done at the frequency domain level, pitch can be easily changed
according to the specified melody, and the voice snippets can be
spliced in a way that reproduces smooth flowing words.
Vocaloid itself consists of a score editor, which does the scale, song
word, and expression processing; the Vocal Sound Generator, the engine
that synthesizes the vocals; and libraries (each comprised of a
pronunciation database and a timbre database) for each vocal. New
vocal libraries can be created by recording real voices pronouncing
basic vocabulary and reproducing variation effects (such as vibrato)
according to templates.
Key features:
* Piano Roll note editor.
* Easy to use lyric editing.
* Drag and drop musical expression assigning.
* Reads Vocaloid libraries.
* Synthesizing vocal tracks.
* Saving vocal data in wave files.
* Up to 16 vocal tracks.
* SMF Input/Output.
* Easy to manipulate voice characteristics.
* English and Japanese lyrics available.
* VST Instrument version planned.
In fact Yamaha were showing Vocaloid working as a VSTi in Cubase on
Windows at Musikmesse!
Yamaha don't appear to have any information about Vocaloid on their
English web sites yet but the "more info" link will take you to a
Babel Fish translation of their Japanese site.
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Grande!
non vedo l'ora che esca ^___^
Augh
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 ha scritto nel messaggio
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Vabbè ovvio che hai capito che ero io, no? ^_^
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voices to reproduce real sounding vocals.
cut
molto interessante. Qui c'è anche un demo
http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=762
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