ISCA Archive Interspeech 2007
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2007

VOCALOID - commercial singing synthesizer based on sample concatenation

Hideki Kenmochi, Hayato Ohshita

The song submitted here to the "Synthesis of Singing Challenge" is synthesized by the latest version of the singing synthesizer "Vocaloid", which is commercially available now. In this paper, we would like to present the overview of Vocaloid, its product lineups, description of each component, and the synthesis technique used in Vocaloid.