OSCAR (Synthesizer V Studio)

* Physicals
* Digitals

* Deluxe
* Standard

* VC Palace Group (Mainland China)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Deluxe)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Deluxe bundle with YAO AI)
**Digital copies**:

* VC Palace Group (Mainland China)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Standard)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Deluxe)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Standard bundle with YAO AI)
* VOICEMITH (Taiwan) (Deluxe bundle with YAO AI)
* VOICEMITH (International)

**This article is about the Synthesizer V Studio software known as a voice database. If you are looking for the Synthesizer V character then click here.**

## History

In May 2016, OSCAR made his debut as an unnamed male UTAU voicebank from VOICEMITH and was regarded as the second known character of the series. His name was revealed in the third demonstration which also featured an unnamed female voicebank. The pair were released on August 4 as "OSCAR" and "JOAN" and were part of "J&O". They were said to be XIA YU YAO's new partners and were released with Mandarin Chinese voicebanks. OSCAR "neo" was announced in August 2019, showcasing a new design by Jinko. OSCAR neo did not use a new sound library but featured his voice provider, Myles, singing and speaking as the character, similar to the concept of VTubers. The UTAU voicebanks were still available for use and it was confirmed that they would not be removed. By 2020, the neo design was used as an optional promotional piece as the original operations seemed to have ceased. On May 31, 2022, after YU YAO's AI voice library production crowdfund launched, a fan asked if there would be AI voice libraries for the other VOICEMITH voice synthesizer characters (including ZETA, a DeepVocal library released in June 2020). The company replied, "Possibly but not this year".

### 2023

Sometime after the release of YU YAO's Synthesizer V AI library in 2023, VOICEMITH's website was modified to no longer include the other voice synthesizer characters. There was no announcement regarding the change to the website nor was a reason provided. On March 20, official Twitter and YouTube accounts were announced for OSCAR, and used the image of his "neo" design for his profile and introduction. His Twitter handle was "@VM\_OscarAI", seeming to hint that he would be releasing an AI voice library though the voice synthesizer engine was not revealed. On April 1, OSCAR's YouTube channel posted a new video that mentioned that it used "OSCAR AI", but it featured a brief showcasing of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" as a joke. However, at the end of the video and through a follow-up announcement on April 2, an upcoming fundraiser for OSCAR's Synthesizer V AI voice database was confirmed to be real news and it was asked for fans to continue to pay attention to the official accounts. When a fan addressed Myles' capability of singing in English, OSCAR's Twitter responded that the company would try their best to complete the training in Mandarin Chinese, English, and Japanese. OSCAR AI was also confirmed to be already in the recording stage.

On April 4, OSCAR tweeted "The first day of work, try[ing] all the equipment configurations today." along with an image of a sheet of paper with "Oscar Take 3" written on it. When questioned about what this could mean, it was confirmed that VOICEMITH was checking to see if the sound is up to par. On April 5, OSCAR's Twitter announced another work-in-progress, with hopes that the test had good news. In response to some questions, there was confirmation that the crowdfund would show OSCAR's voice and Myles' voice, which was expected within two months. On August 1, it was announced that VOICEMITH was ready to begin their next crowdfunding project.

On August 2, the crowdfunding campaign began and was noted to run a bit differently compared to YU YAO's. It was noted to be split into two parts: OSCAR's Synthesizer V AI library production and the production of YU YAO's two E.P.s "Huǒ zhī Yáo" and "Huàn zhī Yáo". The crowdfunding campaign had an initial goal of 800,000 NTD and was expected to end on September 17 at 23:59, with physical rewards (including OSCAR's physical box carrying a download card) delivered in mid-October, and OSCAR's digital release in early December. OSCAR had two different illustrations for his release: the initially introduced standing art by Jinko for the digital download and a new illustration by GENE for the outer sleeve of the physical box. OSCAR was expected to have four Vocal Modes available initially: "Power", "Soft", "Classic", and "Nasal". If the funds had reached 900,000 NTD, three more Vocal Modes would be produced: "Rock", "Special", and "Who". On the FAQ page, it was estimated that production may take four months, which included the recording of sound samples, overall voice database production, internal testing, debugging, and merchandise production. If the crowdfund reached the initial milestone, one or two original songs must be produced. The final price of the product was yet to be determined. Plans to allow for Chinese supporters to participate were still ongoing and would be confirmed at a later date. Direct PayPal support was later added, allowing for users to pledge for a digital copy of OSCAR. For those who previously supported XIA YU YAO's library production, 400NTD coupons were distributed by email, which were set to expire on August 20. Beginning on August 7, previews of Myles singing in English were posted to give listeners an idea of how OSCAR may sound in Synthesizer V: "The Blower's Daughter", "All of Me", and "Shut Up and Dance". On August 10, VOICEMITH began showing examples of Myles singing in Mandarin, starting with his own original song "Yǔ Tíng" ("雨停").

On August 11, OSCAR's account tweeted that the team visited the studio for a second time to record samples for the voice database. On August 14, OSCAR's Twitter account showed another English sample of Myles singing "Lost Stars". On August 19, VOICEMITH posted a short video of one of Myles' recording sessions for OSCAR.

On August 24, it was announced that only participants in the crowdfund would receive exclusive access to two of the Vocal Modes, "Nasal" and "Special", meaning that the regular version would not include them. On the crowdfund page, the Vocal Modes' placements were changed: the regular release would have access to "Power", "Soft", and "Rock" while the 900,000 NTD milestone was changed to include "Classic" and "Who". After receiving feedback from fans about this change, OSCAR's Twitter account later asked for thoughts about making "Nasal" and "Special" available as DLC in the future, which would allow users to purchase them as an add-on. On September 8, the crowdfund's goal was lowered to 550,000 NTD. On September 15, the crowdfund reached its goal. The crowdfund ended with a total of 769,813 NTD and 324 backers on September 17.

On October 11, VOICEMITH announced that they were partnering with VC Palace Group to distribute the digital and physical copies of OSCAR's voice database via Taobao for Mainland Chinese users. On October 17, it was announced to the crowdfund backers that the voice database was in final production, with internal testing expected to begin in November; also, various of the crowdfund rewards would also start production, with shipping expected to start in late November.

On December 4, OSCAR was announced to be released in two editions: Standard (with four vocal modes) and Deluxe (with eight vocal modes). Crowdfund backers would receive the Deluxe Edition, whose physical boxes started shipping worldwide on December 13; backers were initially announced to receive their voice database activation codes and download links on December 28, but then this date was advanced to December 20. Some of the activation codes enclosed inside the physical boxes were missing at least one digit, because of problems related to printing them; to solve this issue of incompletely-printed codes, on December 21 VOICEMITH re-sent by email the full codes to all boxed-edition users, who were asked to check their inboxes.

The general release date was originally set to January 10, 2024, but suddenly this was moved forward to December 26, 2023, the same day a new international shop was set up and tweeted about by VOICEMITH. International orders are manually processed, taking up to a day for customers to receive the voice database.

### Updates

OSCAR AI v101 - December 21, 2023
A free update for OSCAR was released one day after his voice database's download link was first sent to his crowdfund supporters. No further information about it was provided, other than that it is only compatible with Synthesizer V Studio versions 1.10.1 and later.

## Voice Database Information

### Voice Databases

Product Information
**Optimum**

  **Range:** A2 ~ D5
**Versions**

  **Lite Version/FLT Available?:** No  **Starter Pack Available?:** No  **Web Version Available?:** No
**Package details** as noted:

OSCAR is a masculine Mandarin Chinese voice database with a Taiwanese accent and is based on the singing style of Myles. As expected of an AI voice database, OSCAR is capable of singing with a more human-like and realistic voice. This version of OSCAR is expected to sound different to his original UTAU voicebank.
**Vocal traits** as noted:

With Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPM), OSCAR can sing more realistically through changes in volume and breath, further enriching singing details, making each singing unique, and providing creators with more options. Through this mode, he can use AI Retakes to create multiple "takes" of a sung section to find an ideal vocal without the need for "laborious tuning". This feature is only available in the Synthesizer V Studio Pro Editor.
**Phonetic notes** as noted:

* Phoneme format: X-SAMPA
* Through Cross-lingual Singing Synthesis, OSCAR can sing in not only Mandarin Chinese but also in English, Japanese, and Cantonese Chinese. This feature is only available in the Synthesizer V Studio Pro Editor.
	+ It was confirmed that there would be an attempt to have data recorded in English and Japanese. It should be noted that OSCAR's default language is set to Mandarin Chinese. He was confirmed to also be trained with English and Japanese songs to further optimize his Cross-lingual Singing Synthesis capabilities.

**Vocal Modes** as noted (Synthesizer V Studio Pro Editor only):

* OSCAR Standard Edition comes with four variations within the Vocal Mode functionality:
	+ "Power" - A powerful singing voice. (Range: B2 ~ A4)
	+ "Rock" - A voice with a more huskier and stronger explosive sound. (Range: A#2 ~ D5)
	+ "Soft" - A gentler singing voice. (Range: B2 ~ C5)
	+ "Whisper" (Range: F2 ~ A4)
* OSCAR Deluxe Edition includes the prior four variations from Standard and adds the following four more variations (for a total of eight variations):
	+ "Nasal" - A singing voice with a focus on nasal resonance. (Range: A2 ~ C5)
	+ "Classic" - A vintage style of singing. (Range: A2 ~ D5)
	+ "Who" - An unclassifiable singing style. (Range: F2 ~ C5)
	+ "Special" - An imitation of Chinese Opera singing. (Range: B2 ~ F5)

**License agreements** as noted:

* VOICEMITH's End User License Agreement - English & Traditional Chinese; as of January 2023
* VOICEMITH's Voice Library Usage Guidelines - Traditional Chinese; as of January 2023
* VOICEMITH's Character Usage Guidelines - Traditional Chinese; as of January 2023

**Voice database sample**

* OSCAR Solfège:

	+ Vocal Mode Solfèges (Standard & Deluxe Editions):
	+ Vocal Mode Solfèges (exclusive to Deluxe Edition):
## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1642370158307217408 - There were plans to have OSCAR have data in Mandarin Chinese, English, and Japanese. It has yet to be confirmed if these plans were fulfilled and if he would be considered multilingual by VOICEMITH.
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/YuyaoOfficial/status/1531899506890969091
3. ↑ https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/695380056943493280/1085810360520560732/image.png - Screenshot of VOICEMITH's website as of March 15, 2023
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1637745902646616064
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1641998824804696071
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntQgY3m6RCw
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1642361216222871553
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1642370158307217408
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1642602091893133314
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1642527041382916098
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1643079723445276673
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1643080892028690433
13. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1643810770361384962
14. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1643838446962876416
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1643868797823221760
16. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1686268126286241792
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1688805852650848256
18. ↑ https://fv-ugc.imgix.net/projects/33726/article/64d1af84c3cd1.png?ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=88962b86c294d088f349ec058de2d88f
19. ↑ https://fv-ugc.imgix.net/projects/33726/article/64d1af93a4d28.png?ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=3ec7d2be49f591a55e114e5e37fbc295
20. ↑ https://twitter.com/YuyaoOfficial/status/1686600917918105601
21. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1686633128537051137
22. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxqkFjwJhB4
23. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1686657907612643328
24. ↑ https://twitter.com/YuyaoOfficial/status/1686662751228493824
25. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1691635642898518427
26. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1688409783693631489
27. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1688730504449982464
28. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1689090354329583616
29. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1689477873323950081
30. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1689878492673081344
31. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1690952207955574784
32. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1692776527308714060
33. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1694637062136476105
34. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1694637057757552878
35. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1696764241527931013
36. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1700039546178875455
37. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20230915100840/https://www.flyingv.cc/projects/33726
38. ↑ https://twitter.com/YuyaoOfficial/status/1702642837505130782
39. ↑ https://t.bilibili.com/851167040973570071
40. ↑ https://www.flyingv.cc/projects/33726/posts/17523
41. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1731596005572026625 - Please note that while the tweet mentioned "five vocal modes", it's actually the default setting (no vocal mode applied) plus four proper vocal modes.
42. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1731596009690812510 - Please note that while the tweet said "nine vocal modes", it's actually the default setting (no vocal mode applied) plus eight proper vocal modes.
43. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1731596011557343366
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 https://www.flyingv.cc/projects/33726/posts/17644
45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1734866065778487370
46. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1737397134423732727
47. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1737667302940873167
48. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1739538488805212185
49. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1739556626577994038
50. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1737696057226871199
51. ↑ https://twitter.com/VM\_OscarAI/status/1736999621032038565
52. ↑ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMRkg2swIH\_umYO2WiksLdbu4cJ3xRGy5 - A playlist compiled by VOICEMITH of songs produced by OSCAR AI beta testers as well as crowdfund supporters who received OSCAR Deluxe Edition pre-release. Although the playlist's title as given by VOICEMITH says "OSCAR Synthesizer V AI Fans Cover", not all of the songs might be song covers.
53. ↑ https://www.flyingv.cc/projects/33726/faqs
54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 https://fv-ugc.imgix.net/projects/33726/article/64e71833cfa06.png?ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=822c7998244f24afbaef7b96adb4a0e4
55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 https://fv-ugc.imgix.net/projects/33726/article/64e719dbbfb82.png?ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=08b3d17b38db6f2d68153f25bb466be2
56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 https://fv-ugc.imgix.net/projects/33726/article/64e7186da3aef.png?ixlib=php-3.3.1&s=627ca23f231fa222131789fec93f8315
57. ↑ OSCAR's "Special" vocal mode was designed for a higher note range; both C3 and C4 renders are provided here for comparison purposes.