Artists who sing in idioglossia (personal languages)?

[garryknight]

Just found this thread. It's interesting to me because I was playing around with 'vocals' generated by warping and re-pitching the output of text entered into a Text-to-Speech generator and recorded to wave format, using Ableton Live 9. The end result turned a synthesized young woman's voice into something sounding quite grannyish. Then I discovered Yamaha's Vocaloid and Realivox's Realitone Blue and used them to create backing vocals (Blue) and lead plus harmony vocals (Vocaloid) for an EDM track.

The results weren't all that realistic but it got me thinking about the process. Once you edit or automate the dynamics of the output waveform created by Vocaloid, and add other processing to make it blend into the mix, the next biggest problem is the 'accent' of the voice used. In my case I was using the Avanna Vocaloid which is sampled from - according to Yamaha's website - an 18-year-old Celtic singer, by which I assume they mean Celtic style; for those of you who know her, think of a young Veela.

Then I remembered the Adiemus project, which impressed me enough at the time that I bought the album, and I got to thinking about the idioglossal approach. I haven't had any time to make a start on experimenting yet but I know enough about the construction of Romance languages to make it work, I think. Not for EDM, particularly, but for something more melodic, perhaps.

I'd be interested if anyone has any thoughts about all this.