They’re mascots for voice banks used in various voice synthesizers. (Not really AI and have been around a lot longer than the current trend of slapping that label on everything)
Miku is kind of the OG for a program called vocaloid, which is a proprietary piece of software.
Teto started off as a voice bank in UTUA a free software, but since she’s gotten a release with synth V which is another proprietary voice synthesizer program.
Anyone can use them to voice a song and use them to say anything, but they’ve sort of developed personalities by association with what songs using them have gotten popular.
The joke here being that a lot of (recent) popular songs using Teto are fairly existential, self deprecating, or otherwise speaking to internal misery. Where as a lot of notable Miku songs tend to be a bit more silly and light hearted. specifically, the comic is referencing the song “Miku” by Anamanaguchi. The teto here would be more in references to things like “ MINIMUM RAGE”, “ ライアーダンサー” (liar dance), or “ROT FOR CLOUT”.
afaik synthV does use AI (machine learning), but i think most people are ok with it since it was ethically sourced, everyone involved knew what was going on, and it’s only actually used to make the voice sound a bit more natural, not for actually creating anything
Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.
Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.
They’re mascots for voice banks used in various voice synthesizers. (Not really AI and have been around a lot longer than the current trend of slapping that label on everything)
Miku is kind of the OG for a program called vocaloid, which is a proprietary piece of software.
Teto started off as a voice bank in UTUA a free software, but since she’s gotten a release with synth V which is another proprietary voice synthesizer program.
Anyone can use them to voice a song and use them to say anything, but they’ve sort of developed personalities by association with what songs using them have gotten popular.
The joke here being that a lot of (recent) popular songs using Teto are fairly existential, self deprecating, or otherwise speaking to internal misery. Where as a lot of notable Miku songs tend to be a bit more silly and light hearted. specifically, the comic is referencing the song “Miku” by Anamanaguchi. The teto here would be more in references to things like “ MINIMUM RAGE”, “ ライアーダンサー” (liar dance), or “ROT FOR CLOUT”.
afaik synthV does use AI (machine learning), but i think most people are ok with it since it was ethically sourced, everyone involved knew what was going on, and it’s only actually used to make the voice sound a bit more natural, not for actually creating anything
Yah they used machine learning but that’s not really AI, or at least not “generative” AI which is what people associate the term with at this point.
Saying it’s AI gives the impression that it’s just a prompt and output system, as supposed to… well closer to the virtual instruments that get used in DAWs.
Back in the 50s AI meant a binary classification perceptron, but kids these days think AI is a new term.
all ML gets sold as AI nowadays. unfortunately that fight is long lost to marketing people.
by “long”, i assume you mean decades
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