A question about voicebank making

[Poppie]

So I've been wondering if I would be able to make a voice and out of the MacOS voice Albert. Would that be against the rules for being a jinriki? I've been thinking of making an Utau based on Albert just because he's the voice used for some of the songs in Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and an utau with that voice would be cool. I know Defoko uses a TTS program but I'd still like to make sure

 

[lucarr3y]

i mean theres a jinrinki utau based on google translate voice, i think as long as you dont distribute it, its alright since its a jinriki

 

[FelineWasteland]

If you're making one out of an existing synth, it just depends on the source's terms of use. If it's a part of MacOS by default there's probably a section for it in the user license agreement. A quick search on my end pulled up some posts saying that they're okay to use for non-commercial purposes (which would include use in UTAU so long as you're not profiting from it), but you'll probably want to verify that before going through with it rather than just taking random internet users' word for it.

This said, I don't know your experience level in UTAU, but you should know that working with artificial voice sources for voicebank development can be a little more difficult than working with natural singing data just because you have to play around the quirks of it (though its not as difficult as jinriki since you still have control over the TTS).

 

[heynotloid]

if you want to do something like defoko, You can create synthetic voices from almost any sample. If you need a tutorial, Denkiv4x knows a lot about the subject. You just need to be very patient.