{"id":61086,"date":"2019-05-01T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=61086"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:23:22","slug":"a-few-words-from-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-few-words-from-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words from Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miku may finally have competition.<\/p>\n

The Yamaha Vocaloids, particularly Hatsune Miku<\/a> and her colleagues at Crypton, have been the gold standard in synthesized vocals for over a decade. None of the alternatives I’ve looked at combine musicality and intelligibility as well. <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

That may change soon. I just stumbled across the Emvoice One<\/a> beta and gave it a try. Its capabilities are limited \u2014 it doesn’t receive MIDI data yet, all note entry and editing must be done by clicking on a piano-roll, and the one available voice, “Lucy,” is not particularly melodious \u2014 but it already sounds more musical and enunciates more clearly than Plogue’s Alter\/Ego. Here’s a quick five bars of Lucy with a bit of compression and reverb.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Lucy-Says.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

This might be worth keeping track of.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you use Alter\/Ego, the “NATA<\/a>” voicebank is now free for the downloading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miku may finally have competition. The Yamaha Vocaloids, particularly Hatsune Miku and her colleagues at Crypton, have been the gold standard in synthesized vocals for over a decade. None of the alternatives I’ve looked at combine musicality and intelligibility as well. That may change soon. I just stumbled across the Emvoice One beta and gave … Continue reading “A few words from Lucy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-fTg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61086"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61092,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions\/61092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}