Talk:Vocaloid (software)

The Vocaloid in Spain is mainly in the plains.

The article fails to mention that Vocaloid tech isn't a Yamaha development, they "only" provided the (large) funds for Pompeu Fabra University in Catalonia, where a spanish researcher discovered and perfected the Vocaloid algorithm in his lab, which later became Voctro Corp. The whole story started back in 1989, when said researcher was doing PhD in the USA.

On the other hand, Yamaha Music shall be praised for their corporate courage in daring to listen to a japanese university professor, who recommended to fund that futuristic spanish project, eventually to the tune of several dozen millions of euros. That kind of "venture capitalism" is rare in Japan, where fiscals are handled very conservatively.

Yamaha Music shall also be praised for their courage to decline Vocaloid1's Meiko/Kaito marketing, which was an unsuitable task for a "zaibatsu" brontosaur and handed the task over to the small and flexible Crypton Future Media shop. Due to CFM's efforts Kaito is still here and they learned a lot about marketing / fandom building that helped define Hatsune Miku the way she is. 87.97.111.150 (talk) 18:37, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Article split recommended.

Hello,

This article should be split for clarity and to facilitate future expansion, because Vocaloid 4 is moving to wider acknowledgement (Ruby is now released and the quantum leap in Miku v4X's singing talent, even in beta version, is already gaining praise.)

The re-worked "Vocaloid" article should be about the computer generated singing technology, telling its history from that 1989 spanish PhD thesis made in the USA to commercialization by Yamaha and giving a coarse overview of the various iterations which were then released, from Vocaloid1 engine to Vocaloid4. The article should also discuss briefly how vocaloid voicebanks transformed into sharing culture multimedia personas, because that's not just a Miku phenomenon nowadays.

The new "Vocaloid (version 1)" article should be about the first commerical version of Vocaloid engine and its personas, especially since that tech is VERY different from the Vocaloid 2/3/4 engines that people know about. The V1 engine actually didn't use the sound donor's voice snippets for concatenation, but only as a guidance to help shape the entirely procedurally synthesized waveforms. In contrast, in V2/3/4 you actually hear e.g. Miku utter the (massively reprocessed) atomic voice samples which came out of Saki Fujita's mouth. 87.97.111.150 (talk) 18:53, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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