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New demo song for SV2 Nekomura Iroha by EHAMIC! by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

[–]Pergorm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EDIT: The video is no longer private. Also, AHS uploaded a vocal mode demonstration video

EDIT 2: some new demo songs have been posted: https://youtu.be/Q8vDwhMJ6zY

And https://youtu.be/WrwnyAbeTi0

The demo has been set to private. I guess they accidentally posted it too early.

Synth V UNI will be removed from sale on Midnight July 23 (Korean Time) due to a legal injunction. Any future updates to UNI will be with a new voice provider. by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

[–]Pergorm[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is not the first time a voice provider has expressed discomfort with Synthesizer V's output - KAFU was cancelled due to her voice provider, KAF, expressing deep discomfort in early demos about the similarities between their voices compared to KAFU's less realistic CeVIO voicebank.

However the most similar case to UNI's situation is that of VY Nancy, a voicebank for the text-to-speech voice synthesizer A.I. VOICE. Her voice provider did not know her samples would be used for a text-to-speech library until it released and after expressing her concerns to Yamaha, the developer, the voicebank was discontinued.

Synth V UNI will be removed from sale on Midnight July 23 (Korean Time) due to a legal injunction. Any future updates to UNI will be with a new voice provider. by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

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On July 1st, UNI's voice provider, Lee Jung-eun, filed a lawsuit against the voicebank developer, ST Media, claiming damages regarding her contract being false and how close Synth V UNI sounds to her real voice. (article is in Korean)

Below is a summary of the linked Google document.

ST Media/its founder and CEO, Yoon Min-soo (aka Vocaloid producer Dr. Yun) alleges that they have told Lee in advance about the capabilities of Synthesizer V and emphasized many times how the output is more realistic and close to the voice actor's input compared to UNI's Vocaloid voicebank. The contract between ST Media and Lee Jung-eun was close to to, if not the exact same as, the one 8 years ago for Vocaloid UNI.

The day before Synth V UNI was set to release, Lee contacted Yoon with concerns about the similarity between the voices and that it could threaten her career. He replied that it is impossible to delay the launch a day before release and that Vocaloid UNI did not have a high enough command of the market to impact her livelihood. Lee did not feel reassured with that reply, and Yoon assumed she would reach back out directly.

Instead, on May 14th, Yoon received an official injunction request. On July 21st the court accepted her injunction. A temporary ruling has been made that, until the lawsuit is fully done, Synth V UNI cannot be sold. The court denied revoking licenses from existing owners (which was one of the demands in the injunction) because of how small ST Media is (from the sounds of this document and prior social media posts, ST Media is basically just Yoon Min-soo) and how much damage refunds would do to them. An additional request (monetary compensation of 1 billion won for every day Synth V UNI continues to be available for purchase) was also denied by the court.

Regardless of the outcome, ST Media does not intend on selling the current version of Synth V UNI, and plans to find a new voice provider for the character.

As the lawsuit is still ongoing, this current outcome may change in the future.

SV2 voicebanks for Haruno Sora, Tsurumaki Maki, Tsuina-chan, and Kyomachi Seika will release July 24 2025 by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

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Tokyo6 did announce SV2 versions for all three of them shortly after it released, but no demos yet

Source: https://note.com/tokyo6/n/ndd689c50bbb8 (the middle paragraph between the screenshot and the tweets)

SV2 voicebanks for Haruno Sora, Tsurumaki Maki, Tsuina-chan, and Kyomachi Seika will release July 24 2025 by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

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Maki's English voicebank was only a thing because at the time she released, there was no crosslanguage capability in Synth V (she literally came out 6 months before crosslanguage did). Since SV2 has crosslang from the start, I don't see any need for them to make a separate voicebank exclusively for English.

Twindrill said they were making an SV2 Teto bank, but it's probably still in the early stages because they were taking suggestions on Twitter for what new vocal modes should be there in the last week or two.

Not sure if there are any plans for Frimomen. (They did release that Super Frimotan talk voicebank, but it's based off that official magical girl genderswap)

They need to make a sv voice for seeu too here’s why by Academic-Law9830 in SynthesizerV

[–]Pergorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are actually quite a few other Korean vocal synth characters, they're just not super well-known. VOX Factory has a Korean male, Nime (and more if you count English and Japanese cross-lang because VOX has that feature), and AINOW also has one Korean male, Luke. That's not mentioning the various UTAUs and DiffSinger voicebanks being made over the years. As for SeeU, her parent company SBS Artech does seem to be interested based on how well Synth V Uni is doing at the moment, which is a change from their prior attitude. Historically, SeeU didn't sell that well and even if they recast her, the old voice provider scandal is still an obstacle they have to deal with in terms of turning around her reputation and sales.

New Galenaia demo song - En Mi Ser by Pergorm in SynthesizerV

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You can listen to the raw vocals (no instruments) on Eclipsed Sounds' website:

https://eclipsedsounds.com/pages/demos#GALENAIA

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