TETO TERRITORY ! 💥

couple of utaus

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT!

GREATEST HITS!

Submission 474

vocaloids (and all similar non-Yamaha-owned vocal synths) are bad. all of them.

It's a mockery of the human voice. Frye from Splatoon 3 of all things is the closest we will ever get to having any interesting vocal technique in a voice synth bank. Singing styles around the world are so interesting and take so much skill and you abandon them for a glorified MIDI file? I also blame them for the rise of AI-generated covers, because they first started the devaluing of the human voice and the usage of it as an instrument - a really boring one that will never know advanced or diverse technique. Congrats, Miku made Minecraft, now all of SpongeBob has sang Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. At least the SpongeBob characters have distinct and interesting voices.

[from follow up asks]

hello. vocaloid take submitter here.

i didn't expect my submission to gain as much traction as it did, i thought it was lukewarm at best. i thought there were more vocaloid haters out there. this is tumblr, though, so i guess not. still think vocaloid is ass though.

i will say, it might add context to my take that i myself am a singer and have natural perfect pitch. while i haven't sang in any professional capacity, i've still done some voice training and lots of lower level performances. i have very strong feelings about singing, and hold what the human voice can do in high regard.

i also have a better ear for picking up smaller things in the human voice (re: natural perfect pitch) and the difference between humans and vocaloid is extremely striking to me. no amount of tuning can make a vocaloid not sound lifeless to me, because i will never, ever hear a human voice, and instead of letting the lead of the song Not Be Vocals - which has never been a novel concept - they HAVE to put the voice bank in.

also, re: "frye isn't a voice bank dumbass", congrats! you took away something i felt was actually interesting! god i wish more people knew about more singing styles that they couldn't easily replicate!

while now i know that AI voices are not a continuation of vocaloid, sorry, still think it's bad, go to hell and learn to compose a song without lyrics.

also - still the vocaloid take submitter - to continue:

i will eventually send a link to a playlist of all of the Vocaloid songs i have ever listened to, because i am sure most of the people who think i submitted that think that i do not even know what Defoko is, or that i've heard exactly two Hatsune Miku songs. i know what Defoko is. i know she's entirely computer generated. i've listened to her voice. i still think it's bad. have any of you big shots heard of Big Al? i've listened to him. also bad. it's bad.

Submission 111

I think chicken breast is disgusting and I would rather blend it up into a shake than eat it with my teeth

It’s fast, it’s efficient, it’s nutritious if you add fruits and vegetables. It’s easy to prepare and you can drink it on the go. I need the protein but chicken breast tastes disgusting either way, and I’m tired of putting in so much effort to make the joyless rubbery meat taste good.

My friends and family are wrong, this is the future.

I see some of you not voting! That's cheating!

It's ok if you agree with neither take! Just choose the take you agree with slightly more!

Think of it like choosing the lesser of two evils!

Propaganda is always encouraged, and remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

Hatsune Miku ; Vocaloid ☆ FuRyu

happy birthday po uta(vocaloid 6) !! [mar 7]

po uta is an english synth released in 2023. he was developed by Yamaha in collaboration with Sample Size LLC and his voice provider, Porter Robinson, who made the second most viewed english language vocaloid song on youtube, "Goodbye To A World" featuring AVANNA . po uta is illustrated by kana_gnpk. po uta is based specifically off of Porter Robinson's style of singing in his album "Nurture"

sorry i was going ot post yesterday but then i missed it due to school, then it turned out taht the first synth i was going ot post about has a different birthday, and for the second one i found 2 different release dates and a completely different character birthday but no official source for any of those, so i actually have nothing ot post for mar 6

tei and teto beach date true

i don’t know how this site works but uhh here’s my art so i hope you like

girlfriends

Since the poll tied between tei and defoko I drew them both! (+ bonus teto and momo) I feel like most of the time they don’t get along but the minute the topic turns to weapons BAM instant besties. The text was taken from Wikipedia

a

ウッホウッホッホウッホッホ

It's honestly so sad that AI vocal/singing synthesis is given such a bad name due to AI art and AI covers floating around making people think AI vocal synth softwares like VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, ACE Studio, etc. are morally wrong. AI art? Yeah, it's bad! It trains itself on artwork taken from other artists without their own permission. It also strives to make it so that people don't need to pay artists any money when they can just generate an image with their mind. AI covers made with characters or celebrities, using software such as Diff-SVC, RVC, and DiffSinger? Yeah, it can be bad! It makes silly cover songs and such trained on audio by real people, usually without their consent. That could even be used to imitate/spread misinformation about someone. But? AI vocal synthesizer software are made and used ethically. Software such as VOCALOID6, CeVIO, SynthV, ACE Studio, Neutrino, etc. use voice and song samples given by people who are usually professional vocalists with express consent and permission, and they are properly compensated for their work. AI vocal synth doesn't use anything without consent and, really, it's inherently just a tool that helps you make your own things, it can't make things for you. Hell, if you look at vocal synthesis that /doesn't/ use AI, such as VOCALOID1-5, UTAU, and DeepVocal, from a users perspective, whether or not AI is involved, it's really the same, AI is only being used to make it more closely match human singing. It's not making anything for you. It's not sourced from non-consenting parties. It is a tool.

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT

TOURNAMENT OVERTIME #160

Submission 474

vocaloids (and all similar non-Yamaha-owned vocal synths) are bad. all of them.

It's a mockery of the human voice. Frye from Splatoon 3 of all things is the closest we will ever get to having any interesting vocal technique in a voice synth bank. Singing styles around the world are so interesting and take so much skill and you abandon them for a glorified MIDI file? I also blame them for the rise of AI-generated covers, because they first started the devaluing of the human voice and the usage of it as an instrument - a really boring one that will never know advanced or diverse technique. Congrats, Miku made Minecraft, now all of SpongeBob has sang Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. At least the SpongeBob characters have distinct and interesting voices.

Propaganda is encouraged!

Also, remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

Hatsune Miku ; Vocaloid ☆ Spiritale

happy (late) birthday hagane miku(fanloid) and stella(fanloid) !! [jan 18]

(hagane miku)

(stella)

hagane miku is a heavy metal derivative of hatsune miku, introduced in 2008. shes created by Shinichi Tahara/ Hansi. hagane mikus obviously voiced by hatsune miku, and the art im showing is drawn by her creator, hansi. hagane miku is 19yo, and her name means "sound of steel"

stella was a fake vocaloid created by Planty. stella was said to be a private vocaloid who would be used to make an album from which the proceeds would go to a charity called Americans For the Arts. stellas voiced was created through the use of modified cross synthesis(xsy) in v4, which allowed planty to use any xsy compatible v3 or v4 banks in the xsy, when this usually isnt possible. according to the fanloid wikia, stella was introduced on 18 jan 2015, was designed and illustrated by Kemohomogeko, and had her box art designed by Haneoka

i drew rei adachi…i should draw more utauloids