Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5051846-20131016172937/@comment-129.199.224.1-20131017073752

Hello everyone,

I am Erfëa, currently project leader on the VoxWave project. I am writing here to get some things straight. Most of what I will tell are details from our press release, which you can find here: http://twilight.mahoro-net.org/~tbk/Press%20release%20VoxWave.pdf. The file is safe indeed, but your computer or anti-virus software may refuse to access it.

[quote]EDIT: Should I spread the news to my watchers/followers about the survey (absolutely not saying anything about a definite release)? [/quote]

Yes, you should! Actually the more answers we have, the better. Of course we cannot tell about a definite release, since our survey precisely tries to assess if our project may come to an achievement. If we find that yes, people will participate in a crowdfunding campaign, then yes we will make a crowdfunding campaign. If we find that no, they will not, then we will look if people will buy it if we release it. The survey is vital for our forecasts! But for the moment, let's say that yes, we want to make a French-speaking VOCALOID, yes, it should be bilingual and yes, we will release it if we manage to get through the various stages of development.

[quote]Just to say, there is also a Voice contest involved.. and I think there might be a design contest.. [/quote]

Actually, things are a bit more complicated. The original team thought of a voice contest and a design contest to build our VOCALOID. But we realized it might be complicated to combine both, and it led to particularly complicated debates as regards the law, but also as regards the collaboration with an unknown voicer, in France. Therefore, we are thinking of other solutions, which I cannot tell for now. But be sure that we will keep you aware about that! For now, we are focusing on our survey on the one hand, on legal details on the other.

[quote]Yeah after re reading through it and doing some digging I found the old forum of it and it is the same group. hopefully they have redone them selves but it is making me very skeptical.[/quote]

As I said, several things have changed in our team, and the original announcement was too early at that time, since the original team had not thought about all options (I joined it only after the original announcement, which is why I cannot be more precise about what they did). But one of the main points I would like to insist on is that, as said in the topic, we collaborate with Anders. Of course I cannot tell about details, but I insist on the fact that it is really helpful for our project.

Anyway, feel free to contact us via our Twitter (already mentioned in this topic) or our Facebook page (Voxwave)!

All the best,

Erfëa Coil