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I think I found proof that Leire Martinez did in fact provide the voice bank for Maika. I'm a huge fan of Leire and La Oreja de Van Gogh. In 2012 they held a contest whereby the contestants would write lyrics to a pre-written melody and a song would be generated online through a program called Ballantunes. The voice of the generated songs is very clearly Maika (here is an example of a generated song for the contest: https://youtu.be/lGXuRkE_WTI ). I just found this video (in Spanish) describing the contest and though I'm not the best at Spanish I am alsost certain that at about 55 seconds in the narrorator says somethong like "the singer recorded a large amount of words and phrases in different notes allowing the software to generate a song with whatever lyrics you create" https://vimeo.com/66891108