Hi. I'm deadbyte. I do vocal synth things, especially with English. He/Him | 27 |Gay 🏳️🌈|ENG - Native|日本語 - Basic|Co-Manager of eseph for UTAU
@esephvoice
Alright, so, real talk
I'm taking a hiatus from commissions for a little bit.
Hopefully not too long, but I need some time to finish other projects, and as much as I enjoy commissions, I am very behind on some other stuff that I haven't had time to get around to.
@Thr33Fish
@CosmonautMarcus
yeah, nobody could've really had the context of him potentially abusing her. Obviously it's abhorrent with that knowledge now, but prior to that, the praise had come from a place of body positivity and letting people be happy in a relationship even if one is considered-
no fr like actually HOW did this happen??
Like, I’m super stoked for Teto AI, but like
Crypton, honey
The character originally made to clown on you, now has a better quality commercial vb than your current lineup
like, what happened?
@TheRocketRalph
WAT
I THOUGHT ALL THE GAY JOKES ABOUT MGS WERE ALL HEADCANONS, U MEAN TO TELL ME THERE IS CANON GAY CONTENT IN THIS FRANCHISE???
I’m gonna have to get into MGS
@Thr33Fish
@CosmonautMarcus
-"conventionally attractive" and one isn't - which like, is still a sentiment that should 100% be pushed. It's just this one instance where it turned out rather unfortunate bc we didn't have all the information available to us
@rocketdo_g
@danulmao
yeah, like if it were something the female character actually wants to do, that'd be a lot more tolerable. but no, not only do they put the story to a screeching halt to pander to their cishet-male audience, but also does so in a way that exploits women in a really gross way
@0rch1dM
@brandonlarish
No, you're right, she does typically wear the Zero Suit under the power armor
But HE wanted the VARIA SUIT asdfghjkbgvfcdsasdfghjkjhgfdsa
What gets me is that this isn’t even an imitation of Miku’s English bank on its own, but moreso how people use it for speech in talkloids
Like, this person did their HOMEWORK. They had to have watched so many videos to get that down. Impressive as hell /pos
@misakufoxx
@nekudotexe
“The trauma you went through/The people who abused you made you who you are and into a better person”
F U C K THAT noise. I became a better person because I CHOSE to be better. The trauma and abuse just made me afraid and socially stilted. They do NOT get credit for MY resolve
@Golden_Waffles_
Family Guy is at its best when its humor embraces and emphasizes the show’s absurdity, instead of the writers being a bunch of tryhards making a bunch of shock bait and/or episodes about serious topics that they backtrack and go all “it’s satire!” when they inevitably screw it up
I’m sorry Yamaha, but the fact that it not only took you a full year to implement a Gender parameter, but the update that implements it sometimes deletes the fucking software and unregisters all your voicebanks is genuinely the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen in a hot sec
Let's listen to the singing demos of the new voice banks SAKURA / ASAHI / SHION / TAKU added in
#VOCALOID6
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also, as far as the ACE controversy specifically is concerned, it should be noted that not ONLY are they indulging in and defending sh0ta/l0li content, but apparently, some of that content consists of VOCALOID Oliver, a vocal-synth voiced by an ACTUAL child
seeing a lot of "it's just FICTION" takes on Twitter regarding sh0ta and l0li shit
understand that fiction or not, we as a society need to stop being enabling viewing minors as sexually enticing, fictional or otherwise
Crypton: "Hi guys! We've updated our expensive barely functioning software to sound slightly less shit"
Dreamtonics: "Y'ALL WANT DECENT PRICES?? HERE U GO! AUTO-PITCH TUNING??? EASY AS SHITTTT. MAKE ALL AI BANKS MULTILINGUAL??? HERE'S YOUR ORDER OF POLYGLOTS *suplexes a car*"
@uhmori
Sitcom where emotionally unavailable man commits familial neglect and ignores the basic needs of his family in favor of watching football and/or playing golf.
@haunthtml
I mean, they already made two full-length VNs for this franchise alone, and have a pretty nice animated clip showing how it’d turn out, I think you could give them a little more credit than some rando teenagers on Tumblr who got a little too ambitious
@wild_forms
I see people in the comments go like “This is a bad image of Alloy” but tbh, she looks fine??? Granted, I’ve yet to play Horizon, and am very much a Bayonetta stan, but I don’t see anything wrong with Alloy, or even that image specifically. It’s a stupid comparison to begin with
@denngekiraketto
You forfeited your right to beg for mercy from others the moment you forced yourself on a vulnerable person without their consent. You threw away your right to plea for the humanity of others when you tortured and killed them. The world is better without you in it.
This definitely seems like a net positive, though I wonder what this will mean for Vocal-Synth stuff?
Like, I'm guessing we'll have to flag it as having used AI, but like, does any use of it at all mean it has to be flagged, or is it mostly just for generative AI and Deepfakes??
YouTube is set to introduce new rules and labels that will require creators to disclose whether or not they used artificial intelligence to create content in their videos.
@MarkElDude
What is it with Benedict Cumberbatch and getting cast into roles that require lots of random nonsensical arm flailing? Is that a typecast? Is experience in that kind of acting smth you put on a resume? I need to know
Listen to me
This is how you make a good VSynth design
Stupid
Impractical
And
Impossible
Techwear
U see this shit right here??? She’s got SPEAKERS. On her JACKET. She’s got VISUALIZERS on her BOOTS. She’s got an mp3 player BANGLE on her upper arm.
Das sum good shit right there
People who harass Naoto Fuuga are utterly worthless
He’s one of the nicest people in this community, who just tries to spread joy with his love for KAITO and his cats, and is even kind enough to learn English to communicate that to us in the West as well
@wild_forms
And like, Bayo’s whole thing is that she’s a “kick your ass and look good while doing it” type of character, whereas ( I think? Again, haven’t played it ) Alloy is a hunter in a dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland. There’s no failure of “design” here, just a failure is being-
@CobraT8HQ
@dragonrxxts
@CiabanItReal
He's not "potentially innocent". He has on many, many, MANY occasions pretty much straight-up admitted to human trafficking, and is only just now being punished for it. To say nothing of the other mountains of evidence against him. Don't delude yourself - he's guilty
@OmniSavior
@spongearchive_
Well, SpongeBob famously has no consistent continuity - but in previous episodes, SpongeBob has claimed to only speak a “little snail”. So my guess is that he’s not fluent, but can understand some of what Gary’s saying
I’m putting this up bc I’ve seen several of my oomfs express the same thing
If you’re experimenting with multilingual-usage in SynthV for languages it doesn’t support, PLEASE experiment with Chinese phonemes. I know it’s complicated and weird, but Mandarin Chinese is best for-
okok what if we did a useful thing...
quote/reply with your tips for working with voice synths!! it can be something a specific voicebank, vb type or engine or something that can be used for everything at the same time :)
Look, I’m NOT saying that just bc developing Standard SynthV voicebanks is becoming an obsolete practice, that Dreamtonics should make a consumer-level Dev kit for only Standard vbs to publicly sell so that the Std engine isn’t a wasted cost
… Actually yes that is what I’m sayin
oh. my. god.
I'm playing with Chis-A English...
She has the most atrocious pitch model I've ever seen
She sounds so so awful oh my god
I have an example below, comparing her English to her Japanese
No edits were made between the two ( JP VoiSona banks can read English )
ohhhh boy, it's going to be so hard to search for Teto SynthV songs without the search being populated with "OMG TETO ON SYNTHV?????" that's actually Genbu with a wig
@darksmiterd2
@vexwerewolf
“I think it’s very cool how J.K. Rowling talks about things like how Wizards dispose of their poop and I think people should stop making fun of her for it”
@captainbleuet
@halomancer1
Oh yes, how I LOVE to spite and upset other people by *checks notes* literally preventing them from furthering interacting with me at all
Can you all like… chill with the OpenUtau slander?
I wanted to overlook it, but some of you all are starting to get really mean about it for no reason, or bc you’re unwilling to actually learn how it works
@rocketdo_g
@danulmao
and like, as a gay man, it's both really uncomfortable, and SO BORING. I would feel no sense of loss if I never saw Kirito ripoff no69420 look up a girls' skirt and going "OMG, WHAT'S A BOOB???" and then getting bitch-slapped into the distance for the 12th time that episode again
@rocketdo_g
@danulmao
like, I just wanna watch a bunch of people kill god with the power of friendship and guns. Is that so much to ask for? Do you really have to ruin my fun with this repetitive tropey bullshit? It wasn't funny the first time it was done, and it certainly isn't the 1 billionth
children should not be lusted after by adults in ANY capacity, period. it doesn't matter if its fictional, it's still the same fucking issue, and you're part of the problem if you're an apologist for it
@Keffy
Companies: “omg! We need more workers! Why doesn’t anyone want to work???”
Employees: “Okay, then pay us more and stop subjecting us to terrible conditions without proper accommodation?”
Companies: *dramatically swooning* “Oh whyyyyy does nobody want to work????”
@CobraT8HQ
@dragonrxxts
@CiabanItReal
And - Andrew literally called him a "failure" of a parent for not having the money to pay for his son's surgery, and only offered his own under the condition that he basically beg for it so that Andrew can flex his wealth."Shitstain" is frankly one of the nicer ways of putting it
@TH3COSMOSCAT
@thetrueragu
Forcing him in
This is the Bite of ‘83 from FNAF4, where this kid, who gets bullied by his older brother, and is afraid of the animatronics, is forced into Freddy’s mouth by his brother and his friends as a joke, at which point, the animatronic bites down and crushes his skull
I do hope that this maybe gives Crypton enough of a nudge to start to more seriously consider developing AI databases, or at least better concatenative ones.
Like, I get that Crypton’s vocals are like, very character-driven, and that they might be reluctant to try a more-
Okay, so we don’t need to worry about YouTube videos going down for the moment. However, if you know of any UTAUs that use Google Drive - download and archive them ASAP or let their creators know of this change, or else they’re bound to be lost
@missfalasteenia
I was getting a bit annoyed that the caller was basically holding the person responding personally responsible for the fact their senator supports Israel.
Then they said “I am” and just… wow. Like I understand being annoyed by it, but that is not the time for a sarcastic quip
@wyntergirl2
@Schaffrillas
I think the issue that people are taking with it pertaining to it being a story about interracial romance, is that the whole “elements” gimmick they have going on is generally a very poor allegory for race with potentially concerning implications
@StillNotSam
“Ohhhh noooo, I’ve been kidnapped by Bowser being voiced by Jack Black, whatever shall I do???” I say, swooning dramatically atop a bed of rose petals and dim lighting*
I’m pretty sure this is exactly the shit autistic people are talking about when they say that social cues are stupid and unclear, when neurotypical people are advocating talking about the most mundane and uninteresting shit in order to “test boundaries”. Like, lol, okay
If you don’t like small talk it means you’re not good at listening. The purpose of small talk is to test boundaries, slowly build trust, and pick up details to carefully broaden the conversation. Why should strangers offer you valuable information if you haven’t demonstrated
@JennyENicholson
I was just right now years old when I realized the second image was Fredbear, and not supposed to be Freddy having Terrible Problems™ on his way to the house
@DaMysteryp0rtal
@CaeDios
Hun, they were crushed. Aside from the fact that their oxygen would’ve hypothetically run out hours ago, I hardly think it matters considering, y’know, their bodies are completely mangled limb from limb god knows how deep under the sea
@FlorkOfCows
Okay so like, logically I know it’s a headband, but I keep thinking he’s holding a rock over his head and is prepping to bash the patients’ organs to to a pulp with it
this is precisely the kind of shit I mean when I say "it hurts real people". Hope that Oliver's VP is never made aware this exists, because that is fucking despicable, and anybody involved in the making of it should be more than ashamed
Look, I know I suck SynthV’s dick a lot, but they released a “Standard” engine, and an “AI” engine within the same year as each other, and made the transition between the two vb types seemlessly, with almost no functional loss between the two. VOCALOID has been working on AI-
@StarliteStud
@tealram
I like to think that they do this all the time and Mario is just like “Luigi, we’re just going to Olive Garden” and Luigi is just being dramatic about it
I mean this in the most loving way possible - it's hilarious to me how when it comes to XLS with Eleanor, she is consistently the one with the thickest English accent.
Okay, but can we like, talk about what he’s saying?
Like, I’ve had this thought for a while, and it’s framed like childish bellyaching when Henry says it, but when you think about it, school practically monopolizes our entire childhoods. As if the better part of five days a week-
Look, I'm not a fan of having a "deluxe" edition of a voicebank with different features either, but I get why they did it.
Xia Yu Yao's crowdfund did really poorly, up until they got barely funded right at the end of the campaign. And OSCAR's crowdfund was looking really rough,-
[OSCAR] Synth V AI Voice Bank description✨✨
1. There are two editions of the voice banks: standard edition & deluxe edition
2. The standard edition includes five vocal modes: Default, Power, Rock, Soft, Whisper
@ThatWeirdoAldo
@moonaito
@tawogclips
This is a show where the deuteragonist is an ordinary goldfish that learned how to walk and breathe air through sheer force of will, where the love interest is from a family of shape-shifting peanuts, and where one character is just an upside-down face. I wouldn’t question it
Casual Reminder for dumbasses and sexual predators:
“Age of Consent”, does NOT necessarily mean “age where sex with an adult is allowed”
Rather, it is the age at which a person is considered CAPABLE of consenting to sex, in the eye of a court of law.
@tealram
It’s not… really about the realistic voices. The issue is that V6 is, to be blunt, just not very good. There are no parameters outside of pitch, the heavy engine noise really holds a lot of voices back, the engine and ui lack a lot of QOL features, etc. To say nothing of how-
@JBoMacca
Yeah, like, the problem wasn’t even that Ryuji didn’t like the two men. The problem was that the writers were depicting two adult gay men acting predatory to a minor as a source of comedy( more than once no less.
@xqjonah
@Kotaku
No, but writing in two gay adult men acting predatory towards a minor as a source of comedy multiple times, is, in fact, homophobic.
Y’all really love your strawmen huh?
-realistic and human-like synthesis method like this, but, Teto was built with roughly the same sentiments, and yet, it’s able to retain the character of the vocal even despite the added realism. She’s still recognizable as “Teto”, and I thinks she proves that the Crypton vocals-
@kzzrttt
this isn't even that bad for Family Guy tbh, or Seth Macfarlene shows in general. Trashy gross-out shockbait is literally their whole schtick at this point
The scream was definitely a standout though
@hg_Coffee
Ehhhhhhh, I’ve actually seen a lot of people who dislike her. Mostly younger fans who are like “I HATE Miku she’s STEALING the popularity from other VOCALOIDs. SEEU/MEIKO should be the most popular!” Or are like “She have chipmunk voice”
I hate to be so critical of VOLOR given that literally all of the vocals they’ve produced are incredibly iconic, and that without them, we might not even have SynthV as it is now, but this whole box debacle + the issue with the Quadimension vocals has completely soured my view-
If you have the take "it's fictional", that tells me that you're unwilling to examine the social consequences of people normalizing childrens' bodies and naivete as something to be desired sexually, and how that has had a universally very negative impact on society to the-
I just think it'd be neat
Originally, I kinda just wanted Std voicebanks, since I didn't think that the Crypton CV series would translate well
... And then Teto happened
Said this elsewhere but me wanting Miku SynthV is like 25% me wanting Realistic Miku and 75% me wanting to have Miku in a program that I actually find intuitive/wanting multiexpression Miku English that's actually understandable/not wanting to spend money on a Vocaloid product