Kasane Teto (Chibi)

1. #1Kasane Teto

   Keys: Kasane Teto

   Kasane Teto (重音テト) is a Japanese (and later English) UTAU who was originally created as a troll "VOCALOID" by fans. Her surname 重音 (Kasane) literally means "heavy sound" or "overlapped sound;" while these interpretations are widely accepted among fans, TWINDRILL has not released any announcements about the meaning of the name. Her name テト (Teto) comes from Tetopettenson, a parody song of Le Beau Tambour. Although her original voicebank was only for use in UTAU, many people still mistook her for a VOCALOID (and still mistake her for one to this day). Though she had no final voicebank released for the VOCALOID engine, Teto had a private voicebank with Crypton Future Media, Inc. and there were attempts to release her for VOCALOID in collaboration with AH-Software Co. Ltd.. She later was to be released with a speech voicebank for TALQu in January 2022, an AI singing voice database for Synthesizer V Studio in April 2023, and will be receiving an AI text-to-speech voice library for VOICEPEAK in April 2025. Her voice provider is Mayo Oyamano. Sex: Chimera (female). Age: 31. Height: 159.5cm. Weight: 47kg. Voice: Mayo Oyamano. Creator: TWINDRILL. Release: April 1, 2008. Status: Active. Language: Japanese. Illustrator: Sen (線). Type: Original character and UTAU. Code: 0401. Affiliation: denizens of vip@2ch, Crypton Future Media, SEGA, AH-Software Co. Ltd. Website: https://kasaneteto.jp/. Following the rising popularity of Hatsune Miku, "Vippers" (Vip News Bulletin@2ch users) schemed a troll "new VOCALOID release" as an April Fool's joke. Sen (線) provided the rough sketch and Nobuyo Oyama, a spoof for Doraemon's former voice actress Nobuyo Oyama, provided the vocal. The Teto project continued after the troll campaign, and her vocal was recorded again for the use on UTAU, which vocal synthesis software was released two months earlier. UTAU and Teto were both unnoticed among VOCALOID composers at first, but during the last half of the year of her release several creators started composing songs for Teto, causing her fame to be established during the following year. The voice provider's name reading was then changed to Mayo Oyamano (小山乃 舞世 Oyamano Mayo) to avoid unnecessary confusion. Teto was given official acceptance to piapro on April 1, 2010, and to Project DIVA on October 10, 2011. At one point, Teto was tested in the VOCALOID engine by Wataru Sasaki, but was scrapped due to not meeting expectations.[citation needed] In 2012, Tomohide Ogata from AH-Software Co. Ltd. came into contact with Mayo Oyamano, discussing the idea of turning Teto into a VOCALOID. However, the voice could not be reproduced in a satisfactory manner. Teto was announced to have a TALQu speech voicebank in July 2021, which later released on January 8, 2022. She was also released as an AI voice database for Synthesizer V Studio on April 27, 2023, and a voice database for VOICEPEAK which will release on April 24, 2025. Kasane Teto was released as an April Fools troll on 1 April 2008, claiming to be the third VOCALOID in Crypton Future Media's Character Vocal Series by users of the message board Vip News Bulletin@2ch. After the trolling, her vocals were recorded for use in UTAU. Her voice provider was Mayo Oyamano. On 10 June 2008, Teto's signature song by nwp8861, "Mimi no Aru no Robot no Uta", came out, which turned heads towards Teto. On 2009 August 1, UTAU got updated to include the smoother more natural VCV voicebanks. When Teto got updated to VCV, more people started to use her and she is now one of the most used UTAUloids. Teto's surname, Kasane, roughly translates to "overlapped sound". Her first name is from Tetopetterson, a parody song of "Le Beau Tambour". On 3 April 2023, it was announced that Teto would be released as a commercial voicebank for Synthesizer V Studio.

2. #2Crypton Future Media, Inc.

   Keys: Kasane Teto, Crypton Future Media

   Crypton Future Media, Inc. is an importer of sound devices based in Sapporo, Japan. The company is also known as the developer and distributor of VOCALOIDs such as Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len, and Megurine Luka. It was the very first of the VOCALOID companies to produce a series. Key people: Hiroyuki Itō (president). Founded: July 21, 1995. Status: Active. Location: 11F Nihon Seimei Sapporo Bldg., 1-1 Nishi4 Kita3, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0003 Japan (060-0003 札幌市中央区北3条西4丁目1-1 日本生命札幌ビル11F). Service: Japan, USA. Type: Music software, Online shopping, Online community, Mobile content, Sound generator software, Sampling CDs and DVDs Sound effect libraries, Background music libraries. Products: MEIKO, KAITO, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len, Megurine Luka. Website: http://www.crypton.co.jp/. Crypton Future Media, Inc. was established in 1995 as an importer and seller of music software. Crypton joined the project in May 2002, Crypton's handling of the two Japanese Vocaloids were MEIKO (released in 2004) and KAITO (released in 2006), they also were the Japanese distributors for Leon, Lola and Miriam. Meiko and Kaito were developed by Yamaha with Crypton Future Media being used to get the product commercially released, similar to the role of Bplats, Inc. in regards to the releases of VY1 and VY2. They were not acknowledged as "Crypton Vocaloids" at the time since they belonged to Yamaha. According to Crypton themselves, they were also charged with recommending English studios for the English version of the software, these companies were Zero-G and PowerFX. Crypton's role in the VOCALOID era was public relations, promotion, ditributor and potential recruiter of English companies for production of English voicebanks. They did not produce their own Vocaloids at this stage and would not do until early 2007 when Yamaha announced VOCALOID2. The company was small and mostly unheard of. Crypton Future Media began production on actual voicebanks in early 2007, after the announcement of VOCALOID2, originally planning only the Character Vocal Series with 3 members,which would later produce a trend of using 'avatars' or 'mascots' to represent the VOCALOID program. The success of this commercial strategy made Crypton the leading VOCALOID developer. It was not until Hatsune Miku was released in August 2007 that Crypton, along with VOCALOID, became popular. The success of Miku lead to the Vocaloid craze in 2007 and 2008, which continued for many years afterwards. According to Crypton, because professional singers refused to provide singing data (because they feared that the software might create clones of their singing voices), Crypton changed their focus from imitating certain singers to creating characteristic vocals. This goal change led to them sampling the vocals of voice actors. Yuu Asakawa noted that each recording for an update is a new recording. Pressure from rival companies cause systems and microphones to be updated regularly.

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