If sounding robotic is the goal, that’s quite easy – keeping the dynamics flat and note velocities high will do the trick, and making a phrase staccato and adding a steady level of growl will make things even more robotic. There is a cross-synthesis feature which creates a hybrid of two voice banks, but I was not able to test it because it is not supported with English-language Vocaloids. In general, pushing the vocals into abstract, inhuman or extreme territory – chopped vocals, swirly pads or dubstep basses – isn’t possible. Singing a little below their recommended range sounds fine to me, as well. Near the top of their recommended range, both voices start to sound thin and nasal, like many human singers would, and not unrealistically strong and clear. Vocaloid sticks pretty closely to what a real human singer could do – no polyphony within a single part, and a four-octave range, although the recommended range is a narrower A1-A3 for Cyber Songman and G2-C4 for Cyber Diva. Raising Growl for short periods of time works very well for adding color and expression, but keeping it at high values throughout a whole song sounds kind of funny – like a singer who’s trying to sing smoothly but needs to clear her throat, and not a singer intentionally singing hoarsely. With Cyber Diva, I didn’t like the results as much. Tweaking both Growl and Gender together can push things into Barry White territory. It won’t quite turn him into a Louis Armstrong or Axl Rose soundalike, but it works for a moderately rough rock or blues voice, and is also great for adding expression.
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Latin with a heavy American accent (like a singer in a Hollywood movie score) works quite well, though.īoth also support the Growl parameter, added to Vocaloid in version 4. Using phonetics to sing non-English languages with an American accent works, although it easily gets glitchy and obviously robotic when trying consonant combinations which don’t normally exist in English. His English is generally more natural, with the main flaw being that he sustains the consonant “r” longer than most people would – for example in the word “fighter” of this demo song. Cyber Songman is a more recent release and includes a few extra American phonemes in his data, as well as a different dictionary. Changing the phonemes is also needed to make them sing with a regional accent. Both virtual singers tend to pronounce things more clearly and correctly than humans do when singing, so some editing of the phonemes is useful for making them sound smoother. Their English when using their user dictionaries has a standard American accent – like someone from Iowa or thereabout. With a slight adjustment to the Gender parameter, she can sound more smooth and mature and close to Julie London. Not anime girl levels of cuteness, but a little bit in that direction. Cyber Diva has a voice that’s on the high side by female singer standards, delicate and slightly cute. Cyber Songman is a smooth and warm voice, not as high as most male pop singers on the charts today, but somewhere in Chris Brown or Jason Aldean territory. Meet The Androidsīoth Cyber Songman and Cyber Diva have pop/rock singer voices – not opera or metal. With both of these products, I get the impression that the primary intended users are not Vocaloid fans, but more mainstream producers.
They don’t have any character design besides the box images and only sing in English. Cyber Diva and Cyber Songman are quite far from that, being pretty much singing tools. Hatsune Miku is the most successful one to date, which is why many people associate Vocaloid in general with her attributes – cuteness, a marketing empire built around the character, a high-pitched voice, anime-style design and Japanese language. There have been dozens of Vocaloids (voices which work in Vocaloid software) released by various developers over the years. Vocaloid has been around for more than 15 years, having started out as a research project at a university in Spain. Both are English-language voices created from recordings of native speakers of American English. Cyber Songman and Cyber Diva are two recent English voice banks for Vocaloid 4, also developed by Yamaha.
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Vocaloid 4 is the current version of Yamaha’s well-known voice synthesis software, which is available as a standalone Windows application, or as a Cubase plugin for PC and Mac systems.
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