Ueki-loid

Ueki-loid (植木ロイド) is said to be an older male voicebank. The Ueki-loid is actually a Vocaloid of a famous deceased Japanese singer named Ueki Hitoshi (surname first), who died in 2007. Wired article explained that, the new technology allows the syllables (or as it should be called, phonemes) to be extracted from vocal tracks in order to create the Ueki-loid. A sample can be heard here Apparently a lot of people were pleased with the voice and it sounds similar to Ueki Hitoshi. It is revealed that the Vocaloid is for private use only and will likely never be released at all.