GUMI

GUMI is an official mascot character of Megpoid (メグッポイド) which is a singing synthesizer application software powered by Yamaha's Vocaloid2 and was published by Internet Co., Ltd.

History
Megpoid was voiced by Megumi Nakajima and released on June 25, 2009. It comes with 3 sample VSQ files, "Happy Birthday", "MYSELF", and "Hitori Yurari". "be MYSELF" is an original song by Nakajima.

There are five demos on the official site ;
 * be MYSELF,
 * be MYSELF (one chorus),
 * Fly Me to The Moon-Part1,
 * Fly Me to The Moon-Part2,
 * BLUE BUTTERFLY.

The design of Gumi is by the manga artist Yuuki Masami.

Robot Gumi
Megpoid was one of 3 voicebanks the robot model HRP-4C was set up to react to, the other two being Miku Hatsune and Crypton's non-commerical vocaloid named CV-4Cβ.


 * HRP-4C as Gumi


 * Singing

Megpoid Extend
Following the success of Crypton's Append, Internet Co., Ltd has confirmed Gumi will recieve a "Megpoid Extend" edition in 2011.

Usage for Music
At the time of her release, she had what was one of the most realistic sounding voicebanks and sings with a soft clear voice. The voice range is F2 - A4 and its optimum tempo is 60 - 175BPM, amongst the female voicebanks she has one of the biggest ranges and is considered easy to tune. It is however difficult to make her sing english.

As is often the case with native Japanese speakers, Megpoid does not have the phoneme "z" and "Z" in the phonetic system and they are replaced by "dz" and "dZ" as well as Gackpoid.