• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for making me look-up how old she’s “supposed to” be. 16 at debut +16 since … anyways, You made me wonder why this portrayal struck me as wrong, and “validate” other portrayals I like better.

    Big a fan of Baja Blast as I am, I didn’t realize I was getting such a deal.

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      1 month ago

      she’s a synthesizer…

      i’m inside my car almost daily and it’s only 14 years old.

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        14 days ago

        Are you trying to portray your car as a naughty-but-shy tricycle and sell its urine to the masses too?

        I couldn’t tell Miku’s voice from any pop-star’s - sound just isn’t the medium I encounter her in. Neither are normie advertising or SFW images normally in my realm either, but anyways, “synthesizer” is just incomplete.

        By all means, take a dig at me; I’m here to roll around in the mud, bearing-grease, and leaky capacitors, but “I’m more cultured than you” or “pedo-phillia is funny” just bore me.

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          1 month ago

          i mean the character is just the logo for the product, which is a software synth for producing vocalisations.

          and i leave that part to a guy, i don’t know what he does with the fluids.

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            1 month ago

            The character is also a holographic projection. There are concerts. There are cameos in shows and advertizements, iirc. The character may not be more well-known than the voice, but the voice is not so popular as to render the avatar nothing more than an accessory to a voice-changer.

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              1 month ago

              they’re usually accompanied, at least.

              also, fun fact, it’s not a voice changer, it’s a waveform generator. you give it a syllable and an envelope and it outputs a note. using miku as a voice changer involves a speech-to-text step.

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                The steps between that and a voice-changer are choices that could be changed on a whim with the tech that existed at Miku’s conception, let-alone today, but you’ve also made my point that synthesizer alone is an incomplete description even on the strictly-audio level. I was not aware that Miku sings gibberish, if that’s what you are asserting.

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                  1 month ago

                  well it can do that, but it’s made for japanese syllables which is why it sounds weird in english.