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| Product | Vocaloid |
| Developer | Yamaha |
| Primary Type | Singing Synth |
| Price (MSRP) | None - Engine is licensed |
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With this system, the "Singing articulations" (Collections of voice snippets, such as phrases, and snippets of vocal expression variations like vibrato) needed to reproduce vocals are collected from custom produced recordings of accomplished singers and put into a database after conversion into frequency domains.
To synthesize vocal parts, the system retrieves data consisting of voice snippets, applies pitch conversion, and splices and shapes them to form the words of a song as input by the user. As this processing is done at the frequency domain level, pitch can be easily changed according to the specified melody, and the voice snippets can be spliced in a way that reproduces smooth flowing words.
Vocaloid itself consists of a score editor, which does the scale, song word, and expression processing; the Vocal Sound Generator, the engine that synthesizes the vocals; and libraries (each comprised of a pronunciation database and a timbre database) for each vocal. New vocal libraries can be created by recording real voices pronouncing basic vocabulary and reproducing variation effects (such as vibrato) according to templates.
All KVR Audio news items relating to Vocaloid.
| Zero-G releases Vocaloid Sonika | 14th July 2009 |
| Zero-G announces Vocaloid Prima to ship this month | 10th January 2008 |
| PowerFX releases Sweet Ann (Vocaloid 2) | 2nd July 2007 |
| Yamaha announces Vocaloid2 / Zero-G announces PRIMA | 7th February 2007 |
| Yamaha updates Vocaloid to v1.1.2 | 27th February 2006 |
| Yamaha releases Vocaloid v1.1.1 | 14th September 2005 |
| Yamaha releases Vocaloid v1.1 | 15th June 2005 |
| Vocaloid Meiko released | 11th November 2004 |
| Vocaloid price drop | 11th August 2004 |
| Vocaloid Miriam demo version available | 10th August 2004 |
| Zero-G Vocaloid Miriam released | 1st July 2004 |
| Yamaha Vocaloid v1.0.5 released | 4th June 2004 |
| Yamaha Vocaloid v1.0.2 released | 23rd January 2004 |
| Yamaha Vocaloid updated to v1.0.1 | 20th January 2004 |
| Zero-G Leon & Lola Vocaloids released | 20th January 2004 |
| Zero-G announces the first Vocaloid products | 17th November 2003 |
| Zero-G Soul Vocalist announced | 19th March 2003 |
| Yamaha show Vocaloid @ Musikmesse | 9th March 2003 |
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