Calendar of release anniversaries and birthdays for vocaloid, synthv, cevio/voisona, utau, fanloid, voicepeak, voicevox, deepvocal, muta, neutrino, voidol, and etc
I wanted to compile a list so that I know the characters' anniversaries and when to draw art for them. I ran into 2 issues:
Official birthdays are often different from the anniversary of the vb's first release
Voicebanks and characters are sometimes released on multiple engines! So what section do I list them under?
It's a bit messy and very much ymmv, obv you can do your own research if you want to check and make sure you celebrate on the correct day. Lmk if I mixed up something or mistyped on the doc. I'll try to update at least the vocaloid and synthv sections as new vb characters are released.
@vocaloidscreenshots @vocaloidcurated @synthvnews @dailyenglishvoca @vocaloid-song-of-the-day or anyone else who might be interested, idk
day 7 tohoku kiritan,,,, this is just a very quick drawing,, i had more time to draw but i didnt,,,,,,, ill draw here again sometime ive been emaning to draw her for forever i even got a plushie of her for ym birthday yippeee
In addition to her Vocaloid voicebanks, Otomachi Una has several speech voicebanks. These include releases for Talk Ex (also known as Otomachi Una Talk), VOICEROID2, Voidol (a real time voice conversion software) and Voicepeak (which uses AI speech synthesis). Currently, this is the same amount of releases as the amount of her Vocaloid voicebanks (2 each for V4 and V6).
These releases all use a separate design for Una with glasses, except for Voidol, which uses her VOCALOID4 Sugar design.
gumi is a japanese synth developed by internet co. ltd., who was originally released in 2009. "megpoid" is the name of the voicebanks themselves/ the software, and "gumi" is the name of the character mascot, the green-haired girl herself. both names come from gumis voice provider, Megumi Nakajima, with "gumi" being a childhood nickname, and "megpoid" being a combination of "megumi", "ppoi"(idk what this means), and "vocaloid". her v2 to v4 and her megpoid talk were illustrated by Yuuki Masami, and her v6 and ai voice by Nou. gumi is the most popular non-cryptonloid vocaloid.
gumi has 18 vocaloid vbs (the most out of any vocaloid) but i struggled a little to find a list of them, though here is my best attempt at listing them:
megpoid (vocaloid 2)- 26 jun 2009
v3 megpoid adult- 21 oct 2011
v3 megpoid sweet- 21 oct 2011
v3 megpoid whisper- 21 oct 2011
v3 megpoid power- 21 oct 2011
v3 megpoid native- 16 mar 2012
megpoid english (vocaloid 3)- 28 feb 2013
megpoid v4 native- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 native fat- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 adult- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 mellow adult- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 sweet- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 natural sweet- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 whisper- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 soft whisper- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 power- 5 nov 2015
megpoid v4 power fat- 5 nov 2015
AI megpoid (vocaloid 6)- 13 oct 2022
thats the 18 vbs. here are other releases for these vbs:
v3 megpoid native (vocaloid neo (the apple os version of vocaloid))- 26 feb 2014
v3 megpoid sweet (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014
v3 megpoid whisper (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014
v3 megpoid power (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014
megpoid english (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014
megpoid (mobile vocaloid editor)- idk when this was released
megpoid english (mobile vocaloid editor)- also dk release
megpoid (vocaloid keyboard)- sometime in 2017 ??
she also received a FineSpeech Ver3 vb on 16 jan 2014 called megpoid talk, and a A.I.VOICE bank on 16 sep 2022 called GUMI. she is also available for voidol
i was too close to the discord text limit atp and couldnt write anymore
Yuzuki Yukari is one of the VOCALOID characters that also has a model and voice for Voidol, a software that converts user-recorded vocals and morphs them to be spoken by a character.
Yukari's voice provider Chihiro Ishiguro, who is a VTuber, has used Voidol to act as Yukari while playing video games.
(source (+ image source): chihiro_ishi on Twitter)
Sophia Lambfield is an english synth and voice developed by Crimson Technology, and released in 2021. voidol2 is both a voice converter that changes the users voice in real-time, and just a regular vocal synth engine as far as im aware (this sounds like im trying to sell it but i just want to explain incase i havent already ajjaskhdaskjd). i could not find who voiced or illustrated her so if you know please let me know. however, the artsyle shes drawn in looks very similar to that of the otomiya iroha(a fellow voidol), who was drawn by RB2 (rbrsrk2 on twt), so i assume sophia was too.
HAL-O-ROID Minami is a japanese synth developed by Teichiku Records Co., Ltd. and released in 2016. haloroid is voiced by the late Haruo Minami. haloroid's mmd model was created by Kaneko Ranou. haloroid is 37.3yo and 173.73cm tall. he is an attempt to "bring back" the voice of a deceased singer, similar to vocaloids hide and ueki-loid, however haloroid is the first public release of a synth like this. he is also the first free cevio. i feel like its important to remember the real person behind the voice in a situation in which the synth is an attempt to "bring back" a dead singers voice, so the real Haruo Minami (born Bunji Kitazume)(also went by Fumiwaka Nanjo) was born on 19 jul 1923 in Nagaoka, Niigata, Empire of Japan. he was a popular enka singer known for performing while wearing a kimono. he died at age 77 on 14 apr 2001 due to cancer in tokyo, japan.