It was announced in today's Voiceroid anniversary stream
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Voiceroid English is under development
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Oh, English Zunko?? I’m really excited for this, and future English Voiceroids!! I’ve always wanted Voiceroid but not knowing Japanese made it seem like a not worth it purchase for me
I hate that I know trying to manipulate her into singing will be a thousand times harder than doing it with Japanese Voiceroids but I'll probably be tempted to buy her and try anyway rofl
Awesome!
I also noticed this tweet:
They talk about the English Voiceroid stuff at about 45 min in / The male Voiceroid talks at about 51:07 (soft followed by a serious voice):
As a reminder, this is the thread talking about the update to the AITalk engine: AITalk getting deep-learning based engine update April 2020 (I remember the voices being more emotional was one of the updates)
I have to go to work in a bit, I want to listen to the new Voiceroid info when I get home/maybe tomorrow.
I also noticed this tweet:
They talk about the English Voiceroid stuff at about 45 min in / The male Voiceroid talks at about 51:07 (soft followed by a serious voice):
As a reminder, this is the thread talking about the update to the AITalk engine: AITalk getting deep-learning based engine update April 2020 (I remember the voices being more emotional was one of the updates)
I have to go to work in a bit, I want to listen to the new Voiceroid info when I get home/maybe tomorrow.
Exciting news!! Hopefully this will be the thing to finally make Voiceroid popular overseas. I expect people will have lots of fun making talkloid videos with them ( and it will hopefully be easier than tuning a Vocaloid to talk :v )
I have to admit however... It does somewhat suprise me that out their Japanese voiceroids, Zunko is the first one to be announced to be getting an English version. Since Yukari is their most popular Vocaloid/Voiceroid/Character both overseas and in Japan, I would have thought it would be her that gets the announcement first, unless they're saving it for her birthday.
I have to admit however... It does somewhat suprise me that out their Japanese voiceroids, Zunko is the first one to be announced to be getting an English version. Since Yukari is their most popular Vocaloid/Voiceroid/Character both overseas and in Japan, I would have thought it would be her that gets the announcement first, unless they're saving it for her birthday.
I was surprised too seeing how Chihiro was one of the MCs for the event. Maybe she wanted to wait on the announcement a bit.
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Voiceroid is definitely very very easy to use (as opposed to making Talkloids with the Vocaloid editor), and I'm really excited for it to finally branch out to overseas!! I've wanted Voiceroid to get more popular in the English-speaking community for years and AHS has finally answered my call
Zunko being the first English Voiceroid announced surprised me too, but since it's only going to happen if her crowdfunding is a success, they probably wanted people to be aware of it and prepared to help make it happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Yukari also has an English version in development, but the cost is being fronted by her company and we'll just see it when it's ready. Of course it's just speculation, but yeah!
Voiceroid is definitely very very easy to use (as opposed to making Talkloids with the Vocaloid editor), and I'm really excited for it to finally branch out to overseas!! I've wanted Voiceroid to get more popular in the English-speaking community for years and AHS has finally answered my call
Zunko being the first English Voiceroid announced surprised me too, but since it's only going to happen if her crowdfunding is a success, they probably wanted people to be aware of it and prepared to help make it happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Yukari also has an English version in development, but the cost is being fronted by her company and we'll just see it when it's ready. Of course it's just speculation, but yeah!
They've said no to giving Flower an English Vocaloid bank before since her VP doesn't know it very well, so I don't see it happening anytime soon, if ever. (Don't know about Koiwai Kotori, though)
The Meikas aren't really doing that well anyhow, to be honest. (Unlike Zunko, who was eh as a vocaloid but crazy popular for talk).
For the Voiceroid or for their Vocaloids' banks, I do hope that Kiyoteru (mainly him 
for me mostly 
) Miki, and Yuki would get future English banks.
I do got to say that the art looks nice of Kiyoteru and Miki
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And a new male Voiceroid! Oh neat, how exciting!
for me mostly ) Miki, and Yuki would get future English banks.I do got to say that the art looks nice of Kiyoteru and Miki
.And a new male Voiceroid! Oh neat, how exciting!
Just like Zunko's sisters had a campaign for their Japanese Voiceroid (and Utau as well iirc), I guess it will probably be the same thing in the future for their English voiceroids. I don't think AHS has said anything regarding what voice providers will they use in their last livestream but imo they will probably go with their plan of using native speakers. They said in an interview on making English versions of their Vocaloids that it would be too complex and Voiceroid being a program that is more focused on speech rather than singing... It's definitely more ambitious that Vocaloid, at least when it comes to languages like English. I feel that using the original voice provider, who might not know English well enough, would only make the project more difficult for AHS.
I did not realize that the Zunko English Voiceroid was going to be crowdfunded. If you help crowdfund, does that mean you get the Voiceroid as a reward (kind of like Patreon tiers)? We should pay attention to news for this so we know when it starts.
I know that when Tsuina-chan was being crowdfunded, her Voiceroid was one of the reward tiers and those who contributed to it actually got it before Tsuina officially released to the public (I was looking her up on Nico before she released, and saw that people actually already owned her and was so confused as to how until I saw some people mention in their descriptions that it was a crowdfunding early access bonus or something).
It's possible Zunko could have something like that as well... though her company and Tsuina's are different, so it shouldn't be an absolute guarantee. Would be nice, though.
It's possible Zunko could have something like that as well... though her company and Tsuina's are different, so it shouldn't be an absolute guarantee. Would be nice, though.
Was it funded through GoFundMe or an exclusively Japanese website or what? I'm sorry if it's not a relevant question, I'm just genuinely curious. If at all possible, I'd be interested in contributing!
Zunko's had an English fundraising campaign before for Zunda Horizon; it was on Kickstarter (here's the link to it). This will probably be done there as well.