Friday, November 25, 2011

Korean Vocaloid SeeU

The Vocaloid singing synthesizier has been around for almost 8 years now but until now there only have been voices for English and Japanese. Now you can also obtain voices for Korean and Spanish. Support for Chinese has been announced as well but to my knowledge is not yet available. In this post you find a couple of official demo videos.

Note that there are two versions of the fourth demo song that differ in the absence or presence of the breathing effect which makes the singing sound more natural.

If I am honest I must admit that I better like the version without it breathing effect. If you have a software that can sing without the need to breathe interfering with the performance, what is the point in crippling it down to sound more human when in previous centuries boys have been castrated to come closer to this ideal? If you want to know how a castrato sounds just scroll to the bottom of this post.

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 1st Demo-song M/V

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 2nd Demo-song M/V

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 3rd Demo-song M/V

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 4th Demo-song M/V
(without breathing effect)

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 4th+ Demo-song M/V
(with breathing effect)

[Korean Vocaloid] SV01 SeeU 5th Demo-song M/V

In case that you are curious, here is one of the very few audio recordings of a castrato performance:

Alessandro Moreschi singing “Ave Maria” (1904 recording)

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