#emvoice

I've had this idea for a long time! I would like to know if vocal synth fanartists are interested in it enough to make it a reality... NEOW!!!

What this fanzine would be about:

Visual art (drawings, cosplays...) of YOUR fandesigns of vocal synth characters with no official designs. (Think Dreamtonics' "alphabet soup", VOCALOID's silhouette series...)

First come first serve - no barrier of entry based on skill, style, etc.

A semi-traditional free zine experience with some rules (minimum dimensions and time limit, for example)

That's right - no Hatsune Miku or Kasane Teto SV here. Not even a VIMALION Yi Xi, iconidol Weina or Mr. Kevin in sight.

What do you think this Cool Guy (gender neutral) would look like?

Enter the interest check here:

-> Please enter the interest check if you're interested in participating. But note that this is not an actual application for the zine! You will be allowed to reconsider before registering if or when the zine becomes a reality. Newcomers will also be allowed by that time.

All questions welcome! I will be sharing this on tumblr and BlueSky, but you're encouraged to tell your friends about it. (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

PS: if you have a cool name idea for the zine, feel free to send it in the last "any note or question?" prompt.

Interest check estimated end date: August 30, 2025

I genuinely think that I might be one of only, like, five people who even knew about or remember it now because of that LMAOOO!

DnB is a fun genre. Lyrics below (BIGSNAX SPOILERS-ish).

I recently bought and started experimenting with Emvoice, an audio plugin that’s like text-to-speech, but it sings.  It also doesn’t sound robotic like other plugins.

I decided to try to create a fan-duet with Adam on his Owl City song Cinematic, this time using these alternate lyrics of the second verse of the song (sourced from the official video on Owl City’s YouTube channel):

There is another version floating out there on Reddit somewhere where my own terrible, not-warmed-up-at-all voice attempted to recreate the same thing, but I wanted to see what kind of quality I could get out of Emvoice.  A few things to note:

The Emvoice voice I’m using is Keela (default).

While I have the full song available, I’m only uploading this small section to try to appease the Tumblr copyright bots.

The “Yeah” is missing in that one part because I couldn’t get it to sound with the right rhythm, no matter how I tried to arrange it, whenever the “Yeah” was present.

The last part is down an octave because it didn’t sound natural with it up in that high register (or with the other part in a lower register).

The Cinematic instrumental was sourced from the YouTube channel Owl City Karaoke.

Uploaded under fair use rationale.

Do you have a different idea of what Mo Chen looks like? Is there another alphabet soup SynthV or silhouetteloid whose appearance you've already come up, or would like to come up with?

Interest checks for a "Fandesign Fanzine" are open! Learn more -> here <-

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Do you have a fandesign for any vocal synth? Just checking if you're interested 👀

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