#cocoaloid

Otoers

Although I can do most of it on my own, it’d be nice to have someone(s) to work with on the oto, so there’ll be less chances of bugs or errors.

Beta testers

These people will beta-test the banks for errors or bugs, and will message us if they find one and a video/screenshot of the error. I would like to have at least 3 beta-testers per voicebank

Artists

The artist would be responsible for doing the full-body release art for each voicebank. (Don’t worry, you wont be bombarded.) It’d be nice to have a single artist for each voicebank so the styles would be the same/similar, however we’re willing to accept multiple artists.

Voice providers

We’re always looking for voice providers who have enough time to join our project. Through Tumblr, however, please email us with a recent recording of you speaking and/or singing. Please use the same mic as you would when recording the samples, so we know what quality to expect.

That’s all the positions we’re looking for. Now, I will explain the voicebank release process that we will go through.

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First, the samples would be recorded. If the voicebank will be multipitch, then the first pitch would be recorded, otoed, and tested before the next pitch would be recorded. Each pitch would be tested individually before being tested combined. The same applies to appends.

After the voicebank has been fully tested, we will release a demo-teaser of the voicebank anywhere from 2 weeks - 2 months prior to release.

On the release day, the full demo reel and voicebank will be released on soundcloud, youtube, tumblr, and our twitter account. It will also be available on our website.

If you’d like to join for only one time, that’s fine as well.

Thank you very much for reading this. If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please feel free to message us on here or through our email.

1. Voice providers

As stated above and on our previous post, we are looking for voice providers. Specifically, voice providers who are willing to join a long-term serious project with a high quality microphone, and actually have enough time to join this project.

2. Artists

The artists will draw the box art/full body art for our own original voicebanks. This is specifically for original cocoaloids, vs. the Vocatauloids (providing vocals for abandoned VOCALOIDs for UTAU). I, Plaid, will come up with the designs, unless you’d like to submit a design of your own despite whichever position you’re in.

3. Beta Testers

You will be part of a small group of people allowed to beta-test any of our voicebanks pre-release. In this position, you would be responsible for finding any bugs or inconsistencies in the voicebanks. You can choose which voicebanks to test and which you do not wish to test.

That is all we’re looking for at the moment, if you have any other suggestions or roles you’d like, feel free to message us!

Thank you for reading~