This article presents an analysis of the Vocaloid voice synthesis software in order to explore what kind of instrument the synthetic voice is emerging to be. Vocaloid software exemplifies a database paradigm of cultural production ... the voice as an increasingly malleable instrument. Furthermore, Vocaloid music production challenges notions of voice as revealing ...
Tópico(s): Media, Communication, and Education
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Popular Music & Society
... of user-centered research, this study examines how Vocaloid, the Japan-developed voice synthesis software and its ... contextualized in China. It explores how the Chinese Vocaloid character LUO Tianyi, who was initially introduced as ... identity, this study also attempts to unpack the Vocaloid practices in China in terms of cultural expression, ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2018 - SAGE Publishing | Global Media and China
... book, Eidsheim's foray into the world of Vocaloid—electronically simulated voices that have become a global ... her African American focus, and her use of Vocaloid to scrutinize essentialist profiling of vocal timbre adds acoustic detail, Eidsheim's extensive discussion of Vocaloid as a Japanese phenomenon is slightly at odds ... are pervasive even in the digital world of Vocaloid, and she suggests that audiences switch between hearing ...
Tópico(s): Music Technology and Sound Studies
2022 - University of Illinois Press | Ethnomusicology
... holographic concerts given by virtual pop stars called ‘Vocaloids’. Alternately acclaimed by music journalists as ‘the future ... derided as ‘a robo-show, a concert simulacrum’, Vocaloid concerts across the past 10 years have sparked ... pre-programmed concerts. In this article, I extend Vocaloid research from recent work that addresses Vocaloid's creative online community into the middle of ... to demonstrate the importance of participatory fandom in Vocaloid culture and its implications for 21st-century concepts ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2022 - Cambridge University Press | Popular Music
Hajime Kobayashi, Takashi Taguchi,
Using Hatsune Miku, a vocaloid or a Desktop Music (DTM) software using voice synthesizer technology, as a case study, this paper explores how consumer generated ... pace. The creative environment ushered in by the vocaloid platform, it appears, represents a form of "managed ...
Tópico(s): Multimedia Communication and Technology
2018 - Editorial Board of MGDR | Markets Globalization & Development Review
... are owned by Crypton Future Media, anyone with Vocaloid software can produce songs for her. While scholars ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2022 - SAGE Publishing | Television & New Media
... Festival and on performances by crowd-sourced Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku, this article posits that, rather than ...
Tópico(s): Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Popular Music & Society
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2015 - University of Minnesota Press | Mechademia Second Arc
Stina Marie Hasse Jørgensen, Sabrina Vitting-Seerup, Katrine Wallevik,
In this article, we discuss the vocaloid pop star Hatsune Miku as an uncertain image, which embodies networks of fans functioning as cultural producers, making it unclear whether creative ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Digital Creativity
Rachel Berryman, Crystal Abidin, Tama Leaver,
... virtual idols” in East Asia (also known as “Vocaloids” in Japan); and the latter’s recent democratisation ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2021 - | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
... capitalist and consumerist infrastructures. Revolutionary apps such as Vocaloid and Ocarina have made anti-AI song making ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2019 - Routledge | Performance Research
Yukara Ikemiya, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Hiroshi G. Okuno,
... s individuality on two singing voice synthesizers: the Vocaloid and the CeVIO.
Tópico(s): Speech Recognition and Synthesis
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
The digital voicebanks/virtual idols known as ‘Vocaloids’ are associated with a vast and diverse repertoire of artifacts, most of which are not industry-sourced but rather the product of self- ... hobbyist labor. Among the diverse media through which Vocaloid culture has developed and spread, the animation medium ... provides. Not only have the animation practices surrounding Vocaloid impacted the objectual consumption of these entities both ... the vast corpora of artistic productions utilizing the Vocaloid technology and/or characters. This article examines these ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
2024 - | Punctum International Journal of Semiotics
This paper proposes the following methods to search VOCALOID creators who publish music videos in Niconico video hosting service.For VOCALOID creator search, the user can utilize three clues: VOCALOID character name, music genre, and impressions.We defined ... music genre with considering social tags annotated on VOCALOID music videos.We also implemented SVM-based music ...
Tópico(s): Music Technology and Sound Studies
2017 - The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence | Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Tópico(s): Italian Literature and Culture
2025 - Cambridge University Press | Tempo
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
2010 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory
Tópico(s): Web Data Mining and Analysis
2014 - Japan Society Mechanical Engineers | Nihon Kikai Gakkaishi/Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Vicio Rizky Damar, Markus Hartono,
Hatsune Miku is the first virtual singer who is currently achieving success, even up to the world level. Miku has a large number of fansbase, like a famous singer. Its popularity also helps Crypton Future Media, as the company maker of Miku, to collaborate, forming a supply chain partnership with several big companies, to bring Miku into real products, which fans can have. This literature review explores this literature study explores Miku's development ever since it was created, until it became ...
Tópico(s): Management and Optimization Techniques
2018 - EDP Sciences | MATEC Web of Conferences
Marc Freixes, Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró,
... these naturalness scores are far from those of vocaloid, the singing scores of around 60 which were ...
Tópico(s): Speech and dialogue systems
2019 - Springer Nature | EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing
The fact is that many manufacturers and nearly all internet service providers as well as online service providers utilize some form of artificial intelligence systems, including algorithms and proprietary software programs to mine, collect, analyze, and organize the content created by users, or the users of their clients, that is hosted on their own web platforms, hosted on private third party network servers or hosted by their advertising partners platforms. What legally cognizable rights do humans ...
Tópico(s): Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
2023 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... of a singing voice synthesis software known as Vocaloid. By reflecting on The End 's thematic focus ...
Tópico(s): Music Technology and Sound Studies
2022 - Cambridge University Press | Cambridge Opera Journal
Voice synthesising software Vocaloid (Yamaha Corporation) is a popular tool for professional and amateur music production. At the time of writing, there are over 770,000 videos tagged ‘vocaloid’ on Niconico; karaoke chain Karatez displays the top ... Wiki has over 59,000 pages, while the Vocaloid Lyrics Wiki has over 90,000. Vocaloid is part of Japan’s unique media mix, ... there is academic research on the way that Vocaloid music is produced and consumed (Sousa; Hamasaki et ... a lack of research into the content of Vocaloid songs and music videos: that is, what kinds ...
2024 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
Vocal synthesizer programs such as Vocaloid use artificial intelligence to create humanlike vocal tracks without human singers. These programs often tie their voice banks to animated avatars, ... like these animated virtual performers are performing live. ‘Vocaloid’ then is not only a software or a ... medium of expression and question the usage of Vocaloids in consideration of the future of digital technologies.
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2024 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Cultural Studies
Travis Holland, Michelle O’Connor, P. David Marshall,
... analyses one of Japan’s unique media subcultures: vocaloids. These characters are built on top of audio ... software and deployed as ready-made performers by vocaloid producers. Tomkinson’s analysis of an album by vocaloid producer Neru demonstrates the depth and complexity to ...
Tópico(s): Technology and Security Systems
2024 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... to fame of HM, a Crypton Media-produced Vocaloid character which resembles a 16-year girl, is ... million USD), and by more than 350,000 vocaloid videos on YouTube and 92,600 such videos ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2013 - | Advances in consumer research
... singing by computers has attracted attention of researchers. VOCALOID is an application to realise that aim. By ...
Tópico(s): Music and Audio Processing
2011 - | International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms
Eriko Mizuno, Naoya Osugi, Haruo Sakuma, Tomohiro Shibata,
... to 5 digits) that were uttered by a vocaloid, i.e. a vocal synthesizer, and the number ...
Tópico(s): Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
2013 - | Journal of Special Education Research
Produção Nacional
... e de hoje”), com Shidô Nakamura e a vocaloid Hatsune Miku, um dos maiores ícones pop da ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2017 - | Estudos Japoneses
... of the Hatsune Miku phenomenon, a highly popular Vocaloid character from Japan. Hatsune Miku began her “life” ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2019 - | INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music Art and Technology
... mass and social media—from YouTube clips and vocaloid holograms to Facebook profiles and video games like ...
Tópico(s): Digital Media and Philosophy
2020 - University of Nebraska Press | American book review/The American book review