|
Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer and the first engine released in the Vocaloid series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 2. This version was made to be able to sing both English and Japanese. ==History== The earliest known development related to Vocaloid was from a project that had occurred two years prior and funded by Yamaha. The project was codenamed "Elvis" and did not become a product because of the scale of its vocal building requires for just a single song. It is credited as the project that established many of the earliest models and ideas that would later be tested and tried for Vocaloid.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/vocaloid-feature ) 〕 Yamaha started development of Vocaloid in March 2000〔 〕 and announced it for the first time at the German fair Musikmesse on March 5–9, 2003.〔 〕 It was created under the name "Daisy", in reference to the song "Daisy Bell", but for copyright reasons this name was dropped in favor of "Vocaloid".〔 〕 The first Vocaloids, Leon and Lola, were released by the studio Zero-G on March 3, 2004, both of which were sold as a "Virtual Soul Vocalist". Leon and Lola made their first appearance at the NAMM Show on January 15, 2004.〔 〕 Leon and Lola were also demonstrated at the Zero-G Limited booth during Wired Nextfest and won the 2005 Electronic Musician Editor's Choice Award.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.vocaloid.com/en/index.html ) 〕 Zero-G later released Miriam, with her voice provided by Miriam Stockley, in July 2004. Later that year, Crypton Future Media also released the first Japanese Vocaloid Meiko who, along with Kaito, was developed by Yamaha.〔 In June 2005, Yamaha upgraded the engine version to 1.1.〔 〕 A patch was later released to update all Vocaloid engines to Vocaloid 1.1.2, adding new features to the software, although there were differences between the output results of the engine.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.vocaloid.com/en/download/en_1.html ) 〕 A total of five Vocaloid products were released from 2004 to 2006. Vocaloid was also noted for its huskier results then later engine versions. Vocaloid had no previous rival technology to contend with at the time of its release, with the English version only having to face the later release of VirSyn's Cantor software during its original run.〔 〕 Despite having Japanese phonetics, the interface lacked a Japanese version and both Japanese and English vocals had an English interface. The only differences between versions were the color and logo that changed per template. As of 2011, this version of the software is no longer supported by Yamaha and will no longer be updated.〔Zero-G e-mail; "It is true that Yamaha are not supporting Vocaloid 1 - that means they will not make Leon, Lola or Miriam work 100% on the latest PC systems like Windows 7 or 64 bit. It is unlikely these voices will be upgraded to Vocaloid 3 or later versions. It could happen, but it is unlikely. It would be expensive and time consuming to re-work the phoneme databases, and at the moment time is better spent developing new voices."〕 All Vocaloid 1 products were permanently retired on January 1, 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vocaloid (software)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|