CeVIO explained

CeVIO Creative Studio
Developer:	CeVIO Team
Released:	FREE vers: April 26, 2013 (speech)/ June 2013 (singing); Full vers.: September 26, 2013
Latest Release Version:	8.0.21.0
Latest Release Date:	^[1]
Operating System:	Windows 8.1 and later (64bit)^[2]
Language:	Japanese
Genre:	Voice synthesizer
License:	Proprietary

CeVIO is the collective name of a range of computer software projects, including Vision (digital signage) and Creative Studio (audio creation software). CeVIO was made to assist in the creation of user-generated content.^[3] It works via text-to-speech method.

Overview

It allows audio creation software for speech and voice synthesizing. Speech and Song are this program's main features. The Speech portion offers a large dictionary of words to which Sato Sasara, Suzuki Tsudumi, and Takahashi speak from and are accurate in the Japanese language, although the option to manually edit it exists as well. The Speech portion was created with help of the HTS method. This method is famous in the VOCALOID fanbase because this method created the online synthesizers Sinsy, Open J-Talk, Renoid Player, and many more. The Speech portion offers different types of voices for each character.

CeVIO Creative Studio's speech intonation can be controlled with three parameters: cheery, angry, and sad. Other things can be controlled as well, such as volume and speed of consonants and vowels.

The software was initially released as "CeVIO Creative Studio FREE" with Sato Sasara as the only voice. One was free to create tracks, insert lyrics, and add breaths to the end of notes, but even then those would get caught up in the end of her already automatically set breaths. Anything else would require external software but didn't really stop the choppiness of her vowel transitions. After the release of "CeVIO Creative Studio S" on the 14th of November 2014,^[4] the FREE version was replaced by one-month free trial of the full version. The free demo version has no longer been available since November 19, 2014.

In the full version, more options for fine-tuning became available. Fine-Tune Amplitude Timing, which allows editing of the choppiness. In addition to pitch, pitch-bends can now also be adjusted, along with vibrato, vibrato timing, volume and dynamics. Gender factor is also available, which makes the voice less or more mature. The option to import MIDI's and .xml's is still present. The file extension also has changed from the free version's ".ccs" to ".csv".

Products

CeVIO Project

• Sato Sasara (さとうささら) (Free, CCS, AI, VS), a female vocal for CeVIO Free, CeVIO Creative Studio, CeVIO AI and VoiSona capable of speech and singing.
• Suzuki Tsudumi (すずきつづみ) (CCS, AI), a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and CeVIO AI capable of speech and singing.
• Takahashi (タカハシ) (CCS), a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio capable only of speech. He has an upcoming Talk voicebank for CeVIO AI.

1st PLACE

• ONE (オネ) (CCS, AI) is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and CeVIO AI capable of speech and singing. She is the second vocal in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project, the first being the Vocaloid IA.^[5] She was released on January 27, 2015, with a speaking voicebank only. A singing voicebank was later released on May 22, 2015.^[6]
• IA (イア) (CCS, AI) is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio and CeVIO AI capable of speech and singing, originally released for VOCALOID3 in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project. A talking CeVIO vocal was received in March 2017, named "IA TALK -ARIA ON THE PLANETES".^[7] On June 29, 2018, IA English C was released, with a Power and Natural bank. It was also confirmed that a talking English IA for CeVIO was in development.^[8]

XING Inc.

• Akasaki Minato (赤咲湊) (CCS), is a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, he is the first member of the "Color Voice Series", a series of singing-only voicebanks by XING Inc. He is illustrated as a 25-year-old male representing the color red.^{[9] [10]} He was released alongside Midorizaki Kasumi on February 19, 2015. His mascot representation is the only one of the Color Voice Series to have a different version of himself represented in the official illustration. The vocal is a counterpart to Kizaki Airi.
• Midorizaki Kasumi (緑咲香澄) (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, she is the second member of the series. She is illustrated as a 27-year-old female representing the color green. She was released alongside Akasaki Minato on February 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Shirosaki Yuudai.
• Ginsaki Yamato (銀咲大和) (CCS), is a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, he is the third member of the series. He is illustrated as a 50-year-old male representing the color silver. He was released alongside Kinzaki Koharu on March 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Kinzaki Koharu.
• Kinzaki Koharu (金咲小春) (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, she is the fourth member of the series. She is illustrated as a 52-year-old female representing the color gold. She was released alongside Ginsaki Yamato on March 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Ginsaki Yamato.
• Shirosaki Yuudai (白咲優大) (CCS), is a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, he is the fifth member of the series. He is illustrated as a 20-year-old male representing the color white. He was released alongside Kizaki Airi on April 23, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Midorizaki Kasumi.
• Kizaki Airi (黄咲愛里) (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, she is the sixth member of the series. She is illustrated as an 18-year-old female representing the color yellow. She was released alongside Shirosaki Yuudai on April 23, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Akasaki Minato.

Teichiku Records

• HAL-O-ROID (ハルオロイド・ミナミ) (CCS), is a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio only capable of singing, he is a free vocal for the software with the voice of deceased Enka singer Haruo Minami.^[11]

Kamitsubaki studio

• KAFU (可不) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the first member in a series of singing voicebanks by Kamitsubaki Studio. She is a female AI voicebank described as a "musical isotope" of singer and VTuber KAF. KAFU was released on July 7, 2021.^[12]
• SEKAI (星界) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the second member of the series. She is a female AI voicebank described as a "musical isotope" of virtual singer Isekaijoucho.^[13] SEKAI was released on April 29, 2022.^[14]
• RIME (裏命) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the third member of the series. She is a female AI voicebank described as a "musical isotope" of virtual singer RIM.^[15] RIME was released on October 25, 2022.^[16]
• COKO (狐子) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the fourth member of the series. She is a female AI voicebank described as a "musical isotope" of virtual singer KOKO.^[17] COKO was released on January 25, 2023.^[18]
• HARU (羽累) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she will be the fifth member of the series. She is a female AI voicebank described as a "musical isotope" of virtual rapper/singer Harusaruhi.^[19] HARU was released on November 13, 2023.^[20]

Kizuna AI

• #kzn (AI, VS), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI and VoiSona only capable of singing, she is an AI vocal based on VTuber Kizuna AI. It was announced on February 25, 2022.^[21] It had 24-hour limited pre-sales on several dates,^[22] but the official release date is unannounced.

• POPY (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is one of the two voice-banks created as part of a collaboration between the BanG Dream! franchise and CeVIO. POPY is based on the character Kasumi Toyama, vocalist of BanG Dream! band Poppin'Party. POPY is an AI vocal, with data recorded from previous Poppin'Party songs.^[23] Her voice is provided by Kasumi's voice actress Aimi. POPY was released on December 21, 2022.^[24]
• ROSE (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the second vocal created for the BanG Dream! x CeVIO project. She is based on the character Yukina Minato, vocalist of Roselia, with AI data recorded from previous Roselia songs. Her voice is provided by Yukina's voice actress Aina Aiba. ROSE was released on December 21, 2022.

SSS

• Tohoku Kiritan (東北きりたん) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.
• Tohoku Itako (東北イタコ)(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.
• Tohoku Zunko (東北ずん子)(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.

VOCALOMAKETS

• Yuzuki Yukari(結月ゆかり) (AI, VS), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI and VoiSona only capable of singing.

Tokyo6 entertainment

• Koharu Rikka（小春六花）(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech. Her voice is provided by Yoshino Aoyama.
• Natsuki Karin（夏色花梨）(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech. Her voice is provided by Miyu Takagi.
• Hanakuma Chihuyu（花隈千冬）(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech. Her voice is provided by Kaya Okuno.

INCS toenter

• Ci flower (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.

AH-Software

• Tsurumaki Maki（弦巻マキ）(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech.

ZAN-SHIN

• ROSA (ロサ) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech (AI). Her character is the younger sister of the Vocaloid character CUL.

U-Stella

• FEE-Chan (CCD-0500, フィーちゃん) (AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of speech. She was developed by U-Stella in collaboration with Techno-Speech.
• UNI-Chan (CCD-0001, ユニちゃん) (AI), is an upcoming female vocal for CeVIO AI. She is to be developed by U-Stella in collaboration with Techno-Speech.

Gasoline Alley

• Futaba Minato(双葉湊音) (AI, VS), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is the youth girl's singing voicebanks by Gasoline Alley. Her voice is provided by Sachika Misawa. She is released on December 2, 2022.

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• Kanato Mell（奏兎める）(AI), is a female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

• ANИA (ANNA) (AI), is an upcoming vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing, she is developed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in collaboration with Techno-Speech.

Bandai Namco Entertainment

• Reml (Remuru, りむる) (AI), is an upcoming female vocal for CeVIO AI only capable of singing.

Techno Speech

• Chis-A（知声）(CP, VS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Pro and VoiSona only capable of singing.
• Kirune（機流⾳）(VS), is a male vocal for VoiSona only capable of singing.
• Aisuu (あいす) (VS), is a female vocal for VoiSona only capable of singing.
• MYK-IV(VS), is a male vocal for VoiSona only capable of singing.
• Tanaka San（田中傘）(VS), is a female vocal for VoiSona only capable of speech.

NORIPRO

• Tamaki (玉姫) (VS), is a female vocal for VoiSona capable of singing and speech. Her voice is provided by Inuyama Tamaki, who, in turn, is voice acted by Norio Tsukudani.

Unreleased

• ALYS (CCS), ALYS is developed by VoxWave. After failing to produce a VOCALOID voicebank for ALYS, VoxWave decided to try and produce a French and a Japanese vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio. Due to unknown reasons the vocals were never produced for CCS, but were rather later released for Plogue's Alter/Ego.
• Chinese Female Vocal (CCS, AI), Chinese Female Vocal is produced by Techno-Speech. In 2018 an article was published by Techno-Speech showcasing Japanese, English and Chinese samples of their at the time upcoming AI technology compared to their current technology. The Japanese voice shown was Sato Sasara, the English voice was IA, and the Chinese voice was a never seen before new vocal. There has been no updates on her ever since the article was published.
• Luo Tianyi (洛天依) (CCS), Luo Tianyi is developed by Shanghai Henian. Her name was found in CeVIO Creative Studio's files and she was listed as a female Chinese Talk bank. The details of her cancellation are unknown.
• Sara (CCS), Sara is developed by XING Inc. Her name was found in CeVIO Creative Studio's files and she was listed as a female English Song bank. The details of her cancellation are unknown.
• Carter (CCS), Carter is developed by XING Inc. His name was found in CeVIO Creative Studio's files and he was listed as a male English Song bank. The details of his cancellation are unknown.
• Yuri (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio capable only of singing used in the "Copy & Loid" game.
• Miroid (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio capable only of singing used in the "Copy & Loid" game.
• Virtual Wakataisho (CP).
• 2023 Female Talk Voice (AI), On June 2, 2023, Techno-Speech published an article talking about the development of their new Vocoder. There were various short demonstrations of the vocoder within the article, one of those demonstrations was an unknown female talk voice.
• There are many other vocals found in CeVIO Creative Studio's and CeVIO AI's files that don't have a name and/ or have little to no information known about them.

Miscellaneous

• Yoko (謡子) (CCS), is a female vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio inside a DAW called Kawai Score Maker.
• Yokun (谣君) (CCS), is a male vocal for CeVIO Creative Studio inside a DAW called Kawai Score Maker.

Reception

In 2013 it won the Microsoft Innovation Award 2013 award.^[25] It also won an award in the CEDEC Awards 2013 event, after receiving 300,000 downloads.^[26]

Notes and References

1. Web site: CeVIO Official Site . cevio.jp . 2021-03-29.
2. Web site: CeVIO AI【製品版】Download ｜ CeVIO Official Site . cevio.jp . 2021-03-29.
3. http://cevio.jp/about/ About
4. Web site: ニュース - さとうささら.com. さとうささら.com. 27 April 2016. 9 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180509151556/http://satosasara.com/news/6591. dead.
5. Web site: ONE -ARIA ON THE PLANETES-｜CeVIO｜1st PLACE. 27 April 2016.
6. http://tumblr.1stplace.co.jp/post/114741641932/one-5-22 link
7. Web site: 1st PLACE Co., Ltd. Twitter. 25 May 2017.
8. Web site: kadotanimitsuru on Twitter. 5 July 2016.
9. Web site: Color Voice Series. 27 April 2016. 7 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160407023831/http://camp.joysound.com/colorvoice/index.htm. dead.
10. Web site: ニュース - さとうささら.com. さとうささら.com. 27 April 2016. 12 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160312131807/http://satosasara.com/news/7301. dead.
11. http://www.teichiku.co.jp/teichiku/artist/hal-o-roid/ link
12. Web site: 音楽的同位体 可不(KAFU) . 2022-10-13 . 音楽的同位体 可不(KAFU) . ja.
13. Web site: STUDIO . KAMITSUBAKI . 音楽的同位体 星界 . 2022-12-28 . 音楽的同位体 星界 . ja.
14. Web site: @musicalisotope . 2023-01-30 . Twitter . en.
15. Web site: STUDIO . KAMITSUBAKI . 音楽的同位体 裏命(RIME) . 2022-12-28 . 音楽的同位体 裏命(RIME) . ja.
16. Web site: 音楽的同位体 裏命(RIME) 10月25日(火)発売 INFORMATION . 2023-01-30 . 音楽的同位体プロジェクト . ja.
17. Web site: STUDIO . KAMITSUBAKI . 音楽的同位体 狐子(COKO) . 2022-12-28 . 音楽的同位体 狐子(COKO) . ja.
18. Web site: 音楽的同位体 狐子(COKO) 1月25日(水)発売 INFORMATION . 2023-01-30 . 音楽的同位体プロジェクト . ja.
19. Web site: 音楽的同位体 羽累(HARU) . 2022-12-28 . 音楽的同位体 羽累(HARU) . ja.
20. Web site: 音楽的同位体 羽累(HARU)先行予約開始！ INFORMATION . 2023-01-30 . 音楽的同位体プロジェクト . ja.
21. Web site: 2022-02-25 . キズナアイがCeVIO AI「キズナちゃん」を発表 謎のアカウントの正体 PANORA . 2022-10-13 . ja.
22. Web site: NEWS . 2023-01-30 . Kizuna AI official website.
23. Web site: BanG Dream!×CeVIO AI プロジェクトの新情報公開！ . 2022-10-13 . BanG Dream!（バンドリ！）公式サイト . ja.
24. Web site: バンドリ！プロジェクトと「CeVIO AI」の新プロジェクトが始動！ . 2022-10-13 . BanG Dream!（バンドリ！）公式サイト . ja.
25. Web site: マイクロソフト イノベーション センター ホーム. . 24 October 2016.
26. Web site: CEDEC AWARDS 2013 最優秀賞発表！ - CEDEC 2013 - Computer Entertainment Developers Conference. 27 April 2016.