YANHE

YANHE (言和) is a Chinese VOCALOID developed formerly by Bplats, Inc. with MERCURY INC., under the YAMAHA Corporation, and was created in collaboration with Shanghai HENIAN. She was the grand winning entry of the second "VOCALOID™ CHINA" contest and was released in July 2013 for the VOCALOID3 engine. 
YANHE was later updated to the VOCALOID5 engine in February 2023. On November 18, 2022, YANHE was confirmed to be receiving an AI voicebank for .https://weibo.com/5582156776/MfCpXrZfO Currently, only approved producers have access to her ACE Virtual Singer AI voicebank.
Her voice is provided by Seira Ryu (劉セイラ / 劉婧犖; 刘婧荦; Liú Jìngluò), a professional Chinese voice actress.
==Concept==
YANHE is described to be handsome, cool, or boyish on the outside, yet soft-hearted on the inside. Her boyish voice makes her unique.YANHE personalityhttp://www.thstars.com/vsingers/#yanhe
Her deep tone of voice was originally created for the supporting character, Zhiyu Moke, but this project had to be changed after YAMAHA was forced to remove his character rights after the actions of Shanghai HENIAN's former president, Ren Li.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/63131-what-really-happened-to-the-vocaloid-china-project-2013-2014/
In 2017, according to Shanghai HENIAN's official website, YANHE's birthday is July 11 and she is listed as a Cancer. Her musical instrument is a scroll that unrolls into a keyboard. Originally upon release, YANHE had no official age. She was later listed as 17 years old on one of the old official websites, however, this was later removed and never mentioned again in later accounts and sites. Her signature color is #00FFCC.https://vsinger.com/vsinger
===Etymology===
Yán (言) can mean "say" or "speech", while hé (和) can mean "peace", "harmonious", or "gentle". Thus, her name can be interpreted to mean "speak peace". Compare the Chinese idiom "shake hands and speak peace" (握手言和), which is used to describe when enemies cease fighting. The character's given name has been officially stylized as "YANHE", "Yanhe", "YAN HE", and "Yan He".https://www.facebook.com/vsingerofficial/posts/pfbid0GeedXmbEcCRbCMfyR7HZdhPV44vmTXXwWFg9ymW6My2crBD8Wu3qQC6Rvmj7fukEl
After VOCANESE rebranded to Vsinger in 2015, YANHE later received a new logo update. The logo matched the format of the original VOCALOID CHINA cast members, but rather than a Sanskrit character, YANHE's logo featured "Yan" (言) in .https://zi.tools/zi/言 "He" (和) was later made present in 2022 with the reveal of the finalized YANHE V5 design.https://zi.tools/zi/和https://weibo.com/3500223314/Lsxc70VkK
YANHE's official signature featured a very stylistic way of writing her name, where some of the strokes have been lessened and merged, such as the second to fourth strokes of "Yan" (言) written in a single squiggling stroke while the fifth to seventh strokes also seemed to merge into one stroke, forming a unclosed and curled or trailed "口". The strokes for "He" (和) was also minimized, and the component (or initial) portion of the word (禾) trailed into the radical (口), which was formed into a heart instead of the usual square shape.
===Appearance===
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YANHE, like Luo Tianyi before her, had her avatar chosen through a competition. The winning and final designs were drawn by MQ and the character was part of the 'YANHE Project' prior to her integration with VOCANESE (later Vsinger), the successor of the VOCALOID CHINA Project.
According to one of Shanghai HENIAN's websites, her appearance is described to be handsome as she has a tomboyish look and an androgynous-sounding voice. She has short white hair and light blue eyes. Her design consists of a white crop top with a black and pink trim. Over the shirt, she wears a white track jacket with aqua and pink trimmings, and a pink flower-shaped charm on the zipper. She wears black shorts with two grey belts crisscrossing over each other with single light blue pieces on her left side. On her right thigh is a black band with a long pink ribbon tied to it. This band carries her scrolled keyboard. Her shoes are white with aqua and pink trimmings like the jacket. On her head is an aqua headset with a pink design running across the middle. The flower design from her zipper is also printed on the sides of her headphone speakers. According to her reference sheets, the pink trimmings on her clothes, wristbands, and headsets are shaped as waveforms or flat lines, possibly reacting to her voice whenever she sings.
While not much was changed between the original entry and the final design, there were some differences. Initially, her wristbands and belts were pink with white waveforms. The sleeves of her jacket also had deeper cuts with a zipper to open and close them, which were reduced to smaller cuts with no zipper. Her piano scroll was originally tucked behind her via her pink belts. Her shorts and the top of her shirt seemed to be more navy than black. There seemed to be a small logo on the left side of her jacket, but the details about it are unknown. The collar of her jacket was much smaller compared to the new design.
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For her V5 design, YANHE wears a black sports top with a crisscrossed neckline under a loose white high-collared coat. The coat is cut in the front just above the hem of her shorts, and the sleeves have slits cut in them just below the shoulder. It has two strips in the front that are see-through, two black bars with teal audio waves on the breast just below the collar, a "V" shaped bar on the back of her coat like the ones on the front, and a pink rosette encased in a pink square charm on her collar. Her shorts are black with a teal light strip on each billowing leg and a silver wire frame belt. On her left thigh is a black band tied with a pink ribbon, like the one from her V3 design. Her shoes are short boots that partially resemble pumps and tennis shoes. They are white with black and teal straps, and teal toes. Her headset has a teal strap, and black and teal cups. On the cups of her headset is her name written in seal script: "Yan" (言) on the left, and "He" (和) on the right. Around her wrist is a black band with a silver charm.
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===Relations===
* Luo Tianyi - fellow member of the Vsinger project.
* Yuezheng Ling - fellow member of the Vsinger project.
* Yuezheng Longya - fellow member of the Vsinger project.
* Zhiyu Moke - fellow member of the Vsinger project.
* Mo Qingxian - fellow member of the Vsinger project.
==History==
===Marketing===
YANHE had a similar marketing technique as Luo Tianyi and YOHIOloid; she was a fan-designed VOCALOID.
A second contest was held to see whose design would be the new image for the second Mandarin VOCALOID. It began on March 25, 2013 and ended at the end of April. On May 13, the 15 finalists were announced. The winning design, along with the 4 runner-ups, were announced June 6. YANHE had the most votes out of all 666 entries.
YANHE had an album revealed in June 2013 called The Stage 1. It was released on July 11, the same day her software was made available for purchase. The Stage 2 was released later in the year.
===Voicebanks===
;YANHE - Qing
:Originally YANHE's vocal was intended for Zhiyu Moke and was meant to represent a male vocal. Due to issues at the time, the voicebank was repurposed and made into its own separate character since it was a completed voicebank. As a result, the voicebank was labelled as a deep female vocal instead. 
* YANHE (VOCALOID3), July 11, 2013
* YANHE V5 (VOCALOID5), February 12, 2023 
;YANHE - Mu
: A sweeter, cuter, and smoother tone of voice compared to YANHE's original V3 and her V5 "Qing" voicebank. 
* YANHE V5 (VOCALOID5), February 12, 2023 
==Music featuring YANHE==
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