After getting in the car, Quan Baoya first called her good sister Matsuura Ami, saying that she didn't need her to accompany her for her birthday tonight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Quan Baoya finished calling, Gu Cheng took out a box and shook it in front of the girl. The box is just wrapped in black velvet and is not beautiful.

"Guess what's this?"

"How do people know, just say no. Things don't matter, even if they're gemstones. Quan Baoya pouted, still playing petty, "By the way, why did you come to Tokyo all of a sudden, you didn't come here to celebrate my birthday." ”

Although it wasn't Gu Cheng who made her unhappy, she was used to finding Gu Cheng to vent no matter who made her unhappy.

If she is wronged and has a debtor, Quan Baoya doesn't plan to reason with Gu Cheng.

Girls are unreasonable, especially when they are with a particular man.

"If you don't want to guess, forget it. I really didn't fly here to celebrate your birthday, but to inspect some technical teams in online broadcasting, and to see you along the way. Gu Cheng is also not sentimental.

"Hmph~ I knew you couldn't be so good to me. People have been worried to death these days, and they all want to breach the contract and pay some money back, but they forget it. ”

"Really, what's so serious? Tell me about it. Gu Cheng gently held Quan Baoya's hand, and the girl trembled, as if the hairs on the back of her hand were a little erect, but she didn't break free.

Quan Baoya 1510 carefully explained the company's desire for her to change her image design and music style, and only concealed her motives for not wanting to change.

"Then what's there to hesitate about? Isn't it just a little money? If you don't like something, then don't do it, why should you listen to the planner's persecution to cater to please the audience?" After Gu Cheng heard this, he naturally supported Quan Baoya's idea without hesitation.

Quan Baoya's heart was sweet, and her mouth was still very hard: "Hmph~ I don't have a backache when I stand and talk." If it's too angry, you can support me!"

"The conscience of heaven and earth, if it was as simple as money to send it away, I would have raised you a long time ago. Gu Cheng sighed, stared at Quan Baoya, and confided in a very serious tone, "Aren't you afraid that you will feel bored in life when you are too angry, and you don't have anything else to do that you want to do, so you keep singing-you can't afford to pay this liquidated damages?"

"Bad guys! Quan Baoya stretched out her pink fist and hammered Gu Cheng, arrogantly snatched the small box, and stopped the topic of career.

She carefully opened it, and inside it was just a cartoon-style box.

The picture shows the image of a strong royal sister with chestnut capable short hair, a fiery red corset and a mini skirt, holding a retro-style stainless steel microphone in her right hand, and a vigorous singing and dancing pose.

Quan Baoya was strange for a while, and shook the box, which was not heavy, it seemed to be just a few DVDs.

What is this? Could it be another girl's record? Kwon Bo-ah's face suddenly fell a little.

She doesn't have any material desires, everyone is so rich, and the monetary value of the gift is not important. But as Hikaru Utada, the best-selling singer in Asia, was given a set of other girls' records by her distant cousin, isn't this a slap in the face in public?

"What the hell is this? Whose record?"

"I don't know, this is not a record, this is the result of a commercial production of Yamaha's latest audio synthesis software called "Vocaloid". It's called MEIKO.,Originally, this software was scheduled to be released today.,But the day before yesterday, I couldn't think of any creative birthday gifts for you.,So I bought out the MEIKO software and the license to use Vocaloid.,For you to play.。 ”

Quan Baoya heard it in a fog, she didn't know what Gu Cheng was talking about, she was not yet 18 years old, even if she was a singer and had her own homework as a high school student, she couldn't understand such technical topics.

Gu Cheng could only explain in the long run.

November 5, 2004 was a very memorable day.

This day is not only Kwon's 18th birthday, but also the official release of the first non-English Vocaloid onomatopoeia software in parallel time and space, ushering in a new era in music history.

Historically, Yamaha Company found Crypton as an agent in Fuso to complete the follow-up landing of the first generation of Vocaloid, and on November 5, 2004, it launched the first non-English virtual female singer named "MEIKO" ("MEIKO" is the romanization pronunciation of the Fuso language "Mei Yizi/メイコ", because the voice actor named Mei Aiko, the music source material used in this software in history, is named Maiko Baixiang.) ）

Later generations have seen the scum house of AB station,Basically know what Vocaloid is,To put it simply,It's a person who records and extracts someone's voice material,Vocaloid software user input the composition、Lyrics,And then the software automatically generates the sound source to sing the song。

For example, there are many people on station B who use the voice of the head of state/Zhuge Liang in "The Fuhrer's Wrath" or "The Prime Minister Scolds Wang Lang to Death" as the initial material, and then sing "Compendium of Materia Medica"/"The Seventh Chapter of the Night"/"Thousand Sakura", which is the representative of the Vocaloid application.

It's just that most of the later generations used Vocaloid after 2011 or the fourth generation after 2014, and the Vocaloid technology of that era has reached the effect of "you can sing all the pronunciations and words without the source person, and you can extract all the pronunciations as long as you sing most of the sounds". Therefore, the Führer did not say all the syllable pronunciations in the Chinese dictionary in "The Fuhrer's Wrath", but the "human Vocaloid" work made can still reach the level of "Chinese Level 10".

Now in 2004, Vocaloid is just the first generation that has just been born, the technology is very simple, the software application and audio source recording are very complicated, and it can only be done by professional recording studios and professional record companies. The cooperation model between the R&D company Yamaha and the agency Crypton for the project is actually as follows:

The development software was provided by Yamaha, which was then licensed to Crypton. Crypton recorded the voice of the voice actor Mei Aizi, and then operated the software to synthesize the voice into a new song - in other words, if it is put aside in 10 years, the operation and use of the software is greatly simplified, and the era of much more powerful functions, the work of the Crypton company can be done by just finding a ghost animal area UP master of station B.

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"All in all, I spent $5 million to buy the rights to Crypton's MEIKO work and threw it in the trash and wasn't ready to be released. This one you have in hand is a nostalgic work of 'technical archaeology', so you can keep it for yourself and give you a guide on what Vocaloid is all about and how to apply it.

On Yamaha's side, I paid $40 million to buy out the rights to Vocaloid's Hanriyi trilingual app. If you want to sing, you can record all the singing pronunciation materials of Chinese, Yi and Fusang according to the rules of Vocaloid, and I will find a technical team to synthesize and compose the music to make an album of virtual singers. For example, if you say that you don't want to sing the "Girls-on-top" album, you can leave it to this virtual singer who uses your voice to complete it, so that you don't destroy your image.

Next year, after the Nicole Nicole video I am preparing is launched, I will open a special area of 'human Vocaloid', and make the Vocaloid arrangement and use rights public, any UP owner only needs to upload their original tunes and lyrics and upload them to the website, and the website confirms that it is indeed original and has no vulgar content, it will help them generate Vocaloid songs and publish them, and help songwriters register copyrights and protect their interests and reputation.

In this way, when the time comes, those creators who are 'talented in lyrics and composition, but can't afford to invite well-known singers to sing, and can't find professional record companies to arrange, perform, and record', can form a win-win cooperation with Nicole Nicole Video Network. ”

The nanny car drove to Quan Baoya's residence, and after going upstairs, Gu Cheng finally made his layout clear.

Quan Baoya seemed to understand or not, thoughtful, and finally confirmed: "Are you saying that after I recorded this Vocaloid, on the video website you said in the future, any creator can sing with my voice, but I don't need a real person to sing that song?

That's pretty much what it means. ”

"What about the MV? You put these things on the video site, but the MV can't be composited, right?"

"Uh...... You're right, then I'll think about it again, maybe it can be put on Dingdang.com or Sponify for everyone to use as open source. Gu Cheng was embarrassed, and found that he really wanted to intervene in a hurry.

With decades of experience, he felt that Vocaloid works should naturally be placed on video sites like Station B open source, but he forgot that the Vocaloid he got now is the first generation of software, only the automatic synthesis of music sources, and there is no automatic synthesis of dance, so it can't be made MV.

It wasn't until 3 years later, in 2007, when Yamaha developed the second generation of Vocaloid, that there was a technology for dual synthesis of sound and video, and the video could be motion captured through real dancing movements, formed into data files, and then fed into the virtual characters to be modeled - the original product of the second generation of Vocaloid, I believe that everyone who has seen the AB station is no stranger, it is "Hatsune Miku", and later the sound patrol, weak sound.

At the moment, MEIKO only has automatic singing and no animated image.

But these are technical details, and they don't really matter. Gu Cheng only came to inspect Nicole's construction team a few days ago, and happened to hear that Quan Baoya has been having a hard time recently, so he just prepared a birthday gift for her in a flash of inspiration - use her voice to be the world's first virtual singer.

As for whether this thing can make money, Gu Cheng doesn't care at all. He's just looking for a meaningful job for the confused girl to do.

Quan Baoya understood the cause and effect, and was very moved in her heart.

"This is the best birthday present I have received in 18 years. She couldn't help but throw herself into Gu Cheng's arms and sobbed.

"Are you happy?"

"Hmm. ”

"That's good, I'm afraid you'll misunderstand, thinking I'm going to use you as a cash cow to open a new money-making copy. ”

"You guy! You are obviously hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, but you are handsome and angry with me again in three seconds!"