Good lord the harmonisation sounds wonderful. Typically with voice synths I sometimes feel raw harmonisation can sound kinda rough without any sort of effects but CeVIO Pro seems to handle it super well. I hope we get a full demo one of these days.
With all the CeVIO-related promotions/sales going on recently (first, second, third), I have to feel like the updated engine might get released in the near-ish future. Sort of a similar tactic to CFM's sale on CFM 'loids before the announcement of Piapro NT. Though if you accept that line of thought, it might make you want to hold off on actually availing yourself of those sales and just wait for the update, no?
I wouldn't read much into it. CeVIO run sales basically as frequently as Zero-G, there's a pretty high chance that they mean nothing. I wouldn't worry too much about holding off on buying CeVIO though, as I remember it when they changed over to CCS from the original CeVIO it was either a straight-up free upgrade or a heavily discounted price, and they'll probably do the same again. If you want it, I'd take advantage of the sale.
I think it's probably more banter than anything, don't believe anything til an official announcement. It would be neat to see some VOICEROID characters get singing voices, though.
People who want to work with CeVIO have to pay once to develop a talk voice and pay again to develop a song voice, so it's expensive. (As in, you don't throw money at them and get both.) If they already have a talk voice with VOICEROID, there is no reason to pay CeVIO to make a talk voice again. (Plus, CeVIO and VOICEROID are very similar in function.) So if Tsuina really did get a CeVIO voice, it would only be a song voice.
To add to that, I don't think there's been any news about updates to the Talk engine in CeVIO Pro. Instead, they seem to be focusing almost entirely on singing and just updating CS7 with improvements to the Talk engine. We don't know anything yet of course, but it could be the case that CeVIO focuses on Song voices from now on.
I'm OK with Cevio being "focused" on singing voices since that's kind of the main thing that draws me to vocal synths in the first place, but I would still be disappointed if the Cevio talk feature ever went away. Having the ability to easily make a vocal synth talk is handy for music production since not all vocalization in music is singing.
Fumito Fumizuki shared information from the Voice Connect event about new CEVIO.
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Sort of related, but Amano Kei was speculating about new CeVIO and it looks like he was right.
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(As a side note, I've talked to Oura before through email. He really is the big wig.)
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Sort of related, but Amano Kei was speculating about new CeVIO and it looks like he was right.
Wow, thanks for breaking my heart in two, Techno-Speech. Oh, and no IA English. Wowee.
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(As a side note, I've talked to Oura before through email. He really is the big wig.)
How disappointing. I had such high hopes for CeVIO AI... Ah well. We’ve got Vocaloid, UTAU, and SynthV at least.
Okay, so the difference between CeVIO AI is it's standalone, CeVIO Pro is a VST. DTM Station says in this article:
Well that's pretty awful. IA English was the voice I was most hyped for on CeVIO AI considering how... not fun her current version is to use. ONE won't be on there too... I'll probably pick up flower and Yukari anyway, but I'm really disappointed in this.
That means that the vocals not coming up are:
1st PLACE:
ONE, IA English
XING, Inc.:
Akasaki Minato, Midorizaki Kasumi, Ginsaki Yamato, Kinzaki Koharu, Shirosaki Yuudai, Kizaki Airi, HAL-O-ROID
Not including Takahashi and Suzuki Tsudumi Talk, who I pray will at least come up with Sasara. Synthesizer V stays the way to go.
That means that the vocals not coming up are:
1st PLACE:
ONE, IA English
XING, Inc.:
Akasaki Minato, Midorizaki Kasumi, Ginsaki Yamato, Kinzaki Koharu, Shirosaki Yuudai, Kizaki Airi, HAL-O-ROID
Not including Takahashi and Suzuki Tsudumi Talk, who I pray will at least come up with Sasara. Synthesizer V stays the way to go.
I guess none of us took the time to actually properly read the announcement page and just assumed and were wrong.
Thanks for the depressing, but necessary/accurate list, it really twists the knife in me. Ahhhgg...
Thanks for the depressing, but necessary/accurate list, it really twists the knife in me. Ahhhgg...
Why the fudge did they bother making those samples of IA English on the new engine if they weren't going to update her? That's what I want to know. I feel kind of misled. I'm probably going to be in denial until it actually comes out (luckily SynthV's proven even more promising than I expected because if it hadn't I might be devastated enough to quit following synth development altogether)
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I saw that part but just assumed IA English would at least be released at a later time... it's really irritating that they're just releasing the Talk vocals. RIP to IA English, stuck rotting on my hard drive for another 2 years.
There's actually a decent amount of... misleading stuff I've heard about Techno-Speech honestly. We'll have to wait and see for the final result since they've been very oddly avoiding uploading a high quality demonstration of CeVIO AI in use.
There's actually a decent amount of... misleading stuff I've heard about Techno-Speech honestly. We'll have to wait and see for the final result since they've been very oddly avoiding uploading a high quality demonstration of CeVIO AI in use.
This disappointment has made me wonder if 1st Place is either planning to move their singing banks to other engines, or have just stopped caring about the singing side of their characters altogether. 
There's no reason she would take longer, especially considering they used her DB to demonstrate the engine in the first place. In fact, Techno-Speech explicitly said that Japanese, English, Chinese and French were supported. IA English isn't coming in 2020 for sure. There's a chance that they're deliberately holding off until their anniversary to do it (IA 8th / ONE 5th) but it doesn't really make sense for them to do that either.
Maybe it's they don't want focus on the English infrastructure like selling and distributing when it seems like they are trying to get the Japanese line up ready they are having an English launch later. I don't know but Didn't they also have a Chinese voice too?