Here's a link to the free Daisy voice for Alter/Ego singing against a BiaB backing track:

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Daisy

This required a lot of tweaking of the note timing, so it was put together in Reaper. Moving the notes about 1/8th of a beat make most of the consonants line up correctly.

On the other hand, if the folk at Plogue decided to make a version of this that wasn't focused on real-time playback (and so accounting for the time it takes syllables to sound), I could easily imagine it as something that could be integrated into BiaB.

ALYS is another virtual singer capable of singing in French and Japanese. The developer has been working on the project for the last two years, and there's a detailed blog entry of the developing her voice. The decision was to build ALYS using free technology for UTAU, which is functionally clone of Vocaloid.

Casey Chapman (aka PaintedCZ) has put together a series of detailed series of YouTube presentations that covers the entire process of building a voice from scratch in UTAU using various tools up to creating a song with the recorded phonemes:


Interestingly, the ALYS voice was recently ported to Alter/Ego. Alter/Ego uses formant synthesis, the need to record all those transitions goes away - the voice information is parameterized, so you can just interpolate from one phoneme to the next.

ALYS is still being developed for other tools, so I'll be instructive in hearing the difference between the two voices once the other version is released. I suspect the UTAU (sampled version) will blow the formant synthesis out of the water... smirk

-- David Cuny

My virtual singer development blog
Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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