Since more people were added to the team, team member Baba developed a bug tracker to keep track of all the pronunciation issues that needed to be fixed. Being the only native English speaker on the team, Michael’s concerns with particular pronunciation problems usually ended up being tabled by the rest of the team, and thus he recruited two other native speakers to tip the scales. The process of turning the audio into a library and fixing pronunciation problems also had its share of problems. This library also incorporated 231 triphones per pitch, which is also the most in any English sound bank to date. Being integral to the VOCALOID synthesis engine, the different pitches allow for a more natural synthesis result, since a singer will often sing the same syllable differently based on where it is in his/her pitch range. The latter was much more than any previous English VOCALOID library to date.
the diphone “he” and the triphone “ello” in “hello”) and six different pitches for “stationaries” (phonemes that can be prolonged, like vowel sounds). Michael talks about how they recorded three different pitches for diphones and triphones (sounds consisting of two or three phonemes, respectively, e.g. Eventually the team settled on coaching one of the second group to sound more like the other person in the group and went through several hours of recording to go through the script several times. The recording process went through four singers in total, two for the initial test before the script changes and two afterwards. The official website also posted an interview detailing the development process, showing the many problems that were encountered in the nearly two years of development. The library will have only a single voice bank (and thus is not cross-synthesizable) but is touted to be able reproduce “rough” as well as “harsh” vocals through VOCALOID4’s growl feature. The recommended pitch range is from G2 to C4, and the recommended tempo goes from 60 to 180 beats per minute. There are currently five demo songs available on YouTube (1,2,3,4,5), with two songs created by UtataP and three songs made by a collaboration between CircusP and CrusherP. A packaged version is also expected to be released in Japan in early February as well.
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Being Yamaha’s first direct release of an English VOCALOID sound bank, CYBER DIVA is touted as being able to reproduce the natural pronunciation of a native English speaker, and it is expected to be available as a download to customers in the US during the first quarter of this year for 149.99 USD. Yamaha has announced at the NAMM 2015 tradeshow the upcoming release of a female American English VOCALOID4 library called CYBER DIVA.
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