Internet Co., Ltd.

* ROSA (distribution only; developed by ZAN-SHIN Co., Ltd. and AH-Software Co. Ltd.)

## Additional Product Information

### Location

Kuga Sangyo Bldg., 2-2-25 Kitahorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0014 Japan

**Internet Co., Ltd.** (株式会社インターネット) or **Singer Song Writer** is a company producing sound effects, loops and digital audio workstation in Osaka, Japan.

## About

Internet Co., Ltd. was established in 1988 as a music software developer in Osaka, Japan. Their *VOCALOID* products feature: Camui Gackpo (Gackpoid), released in July 2008; GUMI (Megpoid), released in June 2009; Lily (who was jointly developed by Avex Management Co., Ltd. in collaboration with the Japanese electronic band, m.o.v.e), released in August 2010; Ryuto (also known as Gachapoid, was jointly developed by Fuji Television Kids Entertainment, Inc.), released in October 2010; CUL (who was jointly developed in association with VOCALO Revolution and VOCALOID producer HirotoP), released in December 2011; Kokone, released in February 2014; Chika (who was also jointly developed by Avex Management Co., Ltd in collaboration with the J-pop group, AAA), released in October 2014; and Otomachi Una (who was jointly developed by MTK Inc.), released in July 2016. VOCALOID had already become popular in the music trend when they started to develop the products, and there was a demand for professional singing vocals, so they had opted to produce "Vocaloid artist" voicebanks. By then, singers had less rejection of cloning their voices so professional singers like Gackt and Megumi Nakajima were adopted unlike Crypton Future Media, Inc., which employed voice actresses and actors for their products. Since the *VOCALOID2* engine was retired from sale, Internet began to update their voicebanks to the latest VOCALOID engine, *VOCALOID3*, and retired their original voicebanks from sale. GUMI was first with *V3 Megpoid* (originally called "*Megpoid Extend*") being released in October 2011 and her formal updated voicebank, Megpoid Native, was released in March 2012. Lily was next with her V3 voicebank being released in April 2012. V3 Gackpoid (originally called "Gackpoid Extend") was released July 2012, and Gachapoid V3 followed after him in September 2014. Internet Co. also released an English Megpoid voicebank in February 2013.

They have helped in the development of the VOCALOIDs Ryuto, galaco (who was jointly developed by the Yamaha Corporation, and later Stardust Music, Inc.), who initially only received a limited distribution to applicants beginning in August 2012 (before an official release in August 2014), and Rana (who was jointly developed by We've Inc.), but left the distributing or marketing to different companies. Ryuto is the only one to have a second development and release with the company. They have also effectively been a key lead in feedback on the development of VOCALOID vocals and were key in a shift of vocal recording styles between VOCALOID3 and *VOCALOID4* leading to the release of their updated voicebanks to the engine such as Gackpoid V4, released in April 2015, and Megpoid V4, released in November 2015. Both packages centered on the new features of VOCALOID4, including compatibility with the Cross-Synthesis feature which allows the blending of other voicebanks and the Growl (GWL) parameter allowing a hard tremolo or guttural effect to the vocals.

The company did not develop voicebanks for *VOCALOID5*, and noting that they were not switching engines, they considered producing some products later on.

On November 11, 2020, Internet Co. announced its first *VOICEROID2* text-to-speech product in the form of Otomachi Una (after previously releasing her for VOCALOID4 and *Otomachi Una Talk Ex*).

On April 2, 2021, a recruitment post for users interested in creating songs and talk segments with ROSA –a new vocal announced by ZAN-SHIN Co., Ltd.– was launched. On April 3, HirotoP mentioned that the company was interested in collaborating with Internet Co. in distributing ROSA since they distributed CUL's VOCALOID3 packages in December 2011. On December 1, it was announced that ROSA's *CeVIO AI* Talk Voice was expected to release as physical packages and digital downloads on December 17, all of them to be distributed by (and bearing the logo of) Internet Co.

On October 13, 2022, Internet Co. became the first and only third-party developer to join the *VOCALOID6* lineup with AI Megpoid, who would later be followed by AI Otomachi Una on June 22, 2023.

On August 9, Otomachi Una was announced for Dreamtonics Co., Ltd.'s *VOICEPEAK* AI speech-synthesis software, with release date set for September 7. Later on November 21, AI Megpoid was announced to be ported to Dreamtonics' *Synthesizer V Studio* singing-synthesis software as an AI voice database (with development outsourced to AH-Software Co. Ltd.), with release set for December 20.

### Key people

* LinkedIn profile
* Twitter profile (@noboru1963)

## Voice Databases

### Synthesizer V AI

Voice databases distributed by Internet Co., Ltd., but developed by other companies.

**Megpoid**
(developed by AH-Software Co. Ltd.)
### Upcoming

Voice databases expected to be distributed by Internet Co., Ltd. but developed by other companies.

**ROSA**
(to be developed by ZAN-SHIN Co., Ltd. and AH-Software Co. Ltd.)

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Manaboy223/status/1091947942766956544
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/noboru1963/status/1168971178054168576
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/otomachiuna/status/1326374092652638209
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/deecloud/status/1377794815870464000
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/deecloud/status/1378368068359913477
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/ROSA\_ROSA\_15/status/1465946052553437188
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/INTERNETjp/status/1465952244340170754
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/GUMIfromMegpoid/status/1580448971872665600
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/INTERNETjp/status/1661265292121763840
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/otomachiuna/status/1689163973789396992
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/GUMIfromMegpoid/status/1726862937703542920

## External links

* Singer Song Writer (Internet Co.'s online store)
* SingerSongWriterjp YouTube Channel
* Official Twitter (@INTERNETjp) (Japanese main account)
* Official Twitter (@INTERNETjp\_en) (English sub-account)
* INTERNETjp Facebook

License agreement
INTERNET Co., Ltd. released the English license Agreement on January 2012 for English-speaking users.

* Permissions and Synthesizer V AI characters guidelines (including Synthesizer V Studio products)
* Permissions and CeVIO AI characters guidelines (including CeVIO AI products)