Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4870649-20140414163507

Well, instead of me making numerous threads on the stuff I dig on the internet--I might as well make a dedicated thread for it. And maybe for everyone else to post really obscure stuff related to Vocaloid?

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Anyway, last time it was the Leon and Lola thing but today I found something that may be of interest regarding Spanish Vocaloids(?)

This article dates back 2007 but the interesting bit is it's written by:

Jordi Bonada and Xavier Serra (the guys behind Voctro)

I'm a little sleepy to keep reading tho (sorry about that)

but at some point it was talking about long it took to record Spanish Vocaloids, something along 3-4 hours and some stuff about SAMPA.

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''We did so for Spanish language, using a script which computed the minimum set of sentences required to  cover the di-allophone subset out of the Spanish books. An excerpt of the Spanish recording script is shown  ''

''It took about three or four hours per singers to follow the whole scripts. Another aspect to  consider is that voice quality often degrades after singing for a long time; therefore pauses are necessary now  and then. Finally another concern is that high pitches or high loudness levels are difficult to hold  continuously and exhaust singers. ''

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They mentioned about working with Vocaloid before but since this is dated, you guys think the Spanish Vocaloid probably followed this process?

(I was actually looking for some songs then I saw this journal, there are others more but I feel like I need to at least read them before posting. Some mention Vocaloid once and it's not really relevant) 