Vocaloid 5 is a singing voice synthesizer and successor to

Vocaloid 4 Vocaloid 4 is a singing voice synthesizer and successor to Vocaloid 3 in the Vocaloid series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 5. History In October 2014, the first Vocaloid confirmed for the Vocaloid 4 engine was the English vocal Ruby. Its rel ...

in the

Vocaloid is a singing Speech synthesis, voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project between Yamaha Corporation and the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. The s ...

series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 6.

History

On July 2, 2018, Yamaha announced that both the official Vocaloid website and shop would be temporarily shut down for maintenance on July 12, 2018, with several Vocaloid products scheduled for discontinuation. On the day of the maintenance, information on upcoming non-Yamaha vocal Haruno Sora was leaked through a preorder listing; the package was listed as an add-on for the then-unannounced Vocaloid 5. Several hours later, once the maintenance had been completed, Yamaha relaunched the Vocaloid website, officially revealing and releasing Vocaloid 5 at the same time. Vocaloid 5 features a redesigned interface that has been described as "significantly more modern" than that of previous versions. It is the first release of Vocaloid to be exclusively sold as a bundle; all purchases include four default voicebanks - Amy, Chris, Kaori, and Ken. These voicebanks share a wide variety of preset audio samples, vocal samples, and singing styles, in both English and Japanese. Vocaloid 5 also offers finer control over many vocal functions; it includes several audio effects, editors, and parameters to manipulate output in ways that traditionally required the use of additional programs. Vocaloid 5 requires a 64-bit operating system.

Vocaloid 2 Vocaloid 2 is a singing voice synthesizer and the successor to the Vocaloid voice synthesizer application by Yamaha. Unlike the first engine, Vocaloid 2 based its output on vocal samples, rather than voice analysis. The synthesis engine and the ...

voicebanks are no longer officially supported, though voicebanks from

Vocaloid 3 Vocaloid 3 is a singing voice synthesizer and successor to Vocaloid 2 in the Vocaloid series. This version of the software is a much more expansive version, containing many new features, three new languages and many more vocals than past software ...

and newer are able to be used. Cross-synthesis (XSY) and job plug-ins do not function in Vocaloid 5. The

Vocaloid Editor for Cubase Vocaloid Editor for Cubase is a version of the Vocaloid editor that has been adapted to be compatible with the Cubase Digital audio workstation. About The software did not come with any new vocals, but was able to impart Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloi ...

was updated to version 4.5 with the release of Vocaloid 5.

Products

Amy

Amy is an English voicebank released as an integrated part of Vocaloid 5 on July 12, 2018. Her voice has been described as "expressive" and "versatile".

Chris

Chris is an English voicebank released as an integrated part of Vocaloid 5 on July 12, 2018. His voice has been described as able to sing from "delicate, soft bass" to "powerful, sustained high tones".

Cyber Diva II

This voicebank is a minor update to the Cyber Diva package. It was released on July 12, 2018.

Cyber Songman II

This voicebank is a minor update to the Cyber Songman package. It was released on 2018.

Kaori

Kaori is a Japanese voicebank released as an integrated part of Vocaloid 5 on July 12, 2018. Her voice has been described as "soulful".

Ken

Ken is a Japanese voicebank released as an integrated part of Vocaloid 5 on July 12, 2018. His voice has been described as "sharp" and "clear" with a "light vocal quality".

VY1

This voicebank is a minor update to the VY1v4 package. It was released on July 12, 2018. VY1 only includes VY1v4's "Normal" vocal.

VY2

This voicebank is a minor update to the VY2v3 package; it primarily adds the "growl" function. It was released on July 12, 2018. VY2 only includes VY2v3's "Standard" vocal.

Haruno Sora

Haruno Sora is a voicebank for Vocaloid 5 and Voiceroid 2 developed by

AH-Software AH-Software is the software brand of AHS Co., Ltd. (original full name: Artist House Solutions Co., Ltd.), an importer of digital audio workstations and encoders in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known as the developer of Voiceroid and a number of Voca ...

and released on July 26, 2018. Her voice provider is

Kikuko Inoue is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator. She has been part of the singing groups DoCo and Goddess Family Club. She is the founder and manager of her voice-acting company, Office Anemone. Inoue tends to play the " perfect girlfriend" ...

. The voicebank has two voice libraries, "Natural" and "Cool".

Meika Hime & Mikoto

Meika Hime & Mikoto are two Vocaloid 5 voicebanks created by Gynoid Co., Ltd and sampled from the voice actress

Kotori Koiwai is a Japanese voice actress, lyricist, and composer from Kyoto. Biography Koiwai was born in Kyoto on February 15, 1990. She initially took interest in voice acting after hearing the voice of Pikachu in the Pokémon anime. Afterwards, aft ...

. They were released on March 30, 2019, along with

text-to-speech Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or Computer hardware, hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system conv ...

software.

Luo Tianyi, Yuezheng Ling & Yan He V5

Three Chinese voicebanks developed by Shanghai HENIAN Information Technology Co., Ltd and released in February 2023. They serve as updates to their Vocaloid 4 versions.

References

External links

* {{Vocaloid Speech synthesis software Vocaloid