Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.207.82.60-20140309021854

Long story short, we uncovered some things a while ago:

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Following a chain of reasoning at the end of which soul equaled blackness, they chose two singers for

the sound samples. The names of the singers chosen to record the voice samples for Lola and Leon remain undisclosed, but the manager for the project, Dom Keefe, told me that both singers are well-established studio musicians in Britain. He described the man who recorded the samples for Leon as “black and English”, and offered that “he is a lovely guy as well…”. About Lola, I was told that she is also “black.

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I found the pdf file here: http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/822/82220946009.pdf

and MikeFire found that excerpt above.

It has some interesting bits as well on how they're recorded and wow it's tedious:

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Each Vocaloid voice is made up of thousands of samples recorded by a single singer.[8] Together the samples represent about 3,800 possible vowel and consonant combinations found in the English language. Each original singer recorded sixty pages of scripted articulations (e.g. [pel, pep, lep], etc.) on three different pitches, which were then manually trimmed into precise samples. The fact that this process required eight hours of recording per day for five days may offer an idea of the sheer volume of these combinations. ///

I feel really happy about this right now.

-Chorvaqueen (I'm having a hard time logging in because of my internet, I hope this post goes through)

(inb4 whitewashing) 