Teto & Rei

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, there were attempts in 2012 to release Teto for VOCALOID in collaboration with AH-Software Co. Ltd., and she later had a private beta voicebank with Crypton Future Media, Inc. in 2017. She later released as a speech voicebank for the TALQu text-to-speech synthesizer in January 2022, an AI singing voice database developed by AH-Software for Synthesizer V Studio in April 2023, and an AI text-to-speech voice library also by AH-Software for VOICEPEAK in April 2025.

Her voice provider is Mayo Oyamano.

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History

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.

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VOCALOID-related productions

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.

In February 2017, Wataru Sasaki (also known as simply "wat"), from Crypton Future Media, Inc., tweeted that Teto was tested as a beta in the VOCALOID engine. At the time, wat was researching the differences in how VOCALOID and UTAU connected phonemes, with UTAU having very distinctive characteristics. He had obtained permission from Teto's creators and attempted to insert fifteen UTAU phonemes into VOCALOID, but the individuality of the voicebank was not present, which disappointed him. Unless GMM or morphing was used to directly inherit the UTAU engine's quirks in a well-balanced way, the characteristic points unique to the original voice synthesizer could not be preserved. He noted that the result did not come close to the individuality that made UTAU what it was. He would be continuing the research until early April. On March 8, wat tweeted about his research again, where the task of "considering the charm of UTAU and the differences in voices" led to inspiration, allowing him to calmly and assess the strengths and weaknesses of VOCALOID, hoping to use this research in future updates for Hatsune Miku and others. On March 17, wat tweeted that he had intentions of sending Teto's sample to TWINDRILL. On April 1, he reported that he was drawing each overtone of Teto one by one. On April 28, after consulting with TWINDRILL, Rena Maeda's participation was offered because he was a fan of her singing voice. The next day, wat tweeted that before he went to Makuhari, he needed to finalize the planning arrangements with Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. or else the next project for Teto would not come to fruition. wat contacted TWINDRILL and other related individuals on April 30.

On July 13, wat tweeted that a collaborative album featuring Hatsune Miku, Kasane Teto, and Maeda Rena was in production. Teto was planned to sing around two or three songs, and according to wat, it was a "race against time". However, on July 15, wat noted that during the album's information release, some media outlets referred to Teto as a VOCALOID. Information had been shared internally to be more cautious about the topic in the future and he apologized for the oversight. On July 14, he tweeted that the rough draft data for Teto's singing was completed and sent to TWINDRILL. The robotic voice had more emotion than expected.

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Other voice library productions

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 then as a voice database for VOICEPEAK on April 24, 2025.

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Impact on VOCALOID

The first cover song using Teto was created as early as April 6, 2008, and her signature song "耳のあるロボットの唄 (Mimi no Aru Robot no Uta)" was published on June 10 by Mimirobo-P. Since then several creators including Lamaze-P, Telmin and Death Ohagi started to create Teto songs. Some of these early works include "Fake Diva", "Triple Baka", "Kasane Territory", and "Popipo Mk-II".

This trend changed on August 1, 2009, when UTAU was updated and VCV voicebanks became available. Teto's VCV voicebank was released on October 20, 2009 and her singing became more natural than before. This evolution made more DAW users turn their eyes towards Teto. Many Teto songs were posted to Niconico, and Teto and UTAU established a place among VOCALOID.

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Appearances

Utauloid outfit: Top: A sleeveless, dark slate-grey button-up vest with hot-pink trim running down the center zipper. It features small chest pockets adorned with pink buttons.The Skirt: A matching dark grey pleated miniskirt. On her left side, a metallic chain is fastened and hangs loosely down, often playfully referred to by fans as her "chimera tail".Sleeves & Footwear: Detachable, floating arm-warmer sleeves with pink buttoned straps. On her legs, she sports thigh-high black stocking boots finished with bright pink soles.Headset: Large purple-pink headphones that light up with a red and blue neon glow.

Synthesizer-V outfit: The Jacket: A highly structured, light grey long-sleeved jacket with flared shoulders, black cuffs, and a double-breasted row of gold buttons across the chest. The high collar features a small nameplate displaying her original meme release date, "0401".The Skirt: A light grey high-waisted skirt layered over a prominent, black fringed petticoat. The fabric is printed with wavy lines shaped like a musical staff. Her signature side-belt wraps diagonally over the top.Hair Ribbon: A crisp white ribbon is tied into her left drill-tail, breaking up her solid pink hair.Footwear: Mid-calf length, black leather heeled boots that lace up intricately in the back

Voice peak outfit: The Top and VestThe Crop Top: Instead of a full jacket, she wears a white cropped tank top under-layer that shows a peek of her midriff.The Vest: Over the top, she wears a dark slate-grey, sleeveless tactical vest (bringing back the classic color scheme of her original UTAU design). It includes a brown utility belt strap wrapped vertically over her right shoulder.The Bottoms and Belt TheLayered Culottes: She does not wear a standard pleated skirt here. Instead, she wears structured, layered culottes (wide-legged shorts that look like a skirt). The base layer is dark grey, paired with a bright red draped cloth overlay.The Waist Belts: She wears two distinct waist belts—a thick brown leather belt and a thin accent red belt wrapped loosely over her hips. Accessories and FootwearThe Walkie-Talkie: A unique piece for this version, she carries a bright red walkie-talkie transceiver clipped to her waist or held in her hand.Socks & Boots: She wears asymmetrical black socks paired with sturdy, mid-calf black combat boots that have red soles and red laces.

Height: 5’3

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Race

Kasane teto is a chimera, She will have Bat wings

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Adachi Rei

Adachi Rei (足立レイ) is an upcoming Japanese VOCALOID and vocal synthesizer character created by missile39, originally released for the UTAU vocal synthesizer program in October 2019. In October 2021, she received a Japanese text-to-speech library developed in collaboration with AI, Inc.'s A.I.VOICE software under the name REPLIVOICE Adachi Rei. She has also received numerous fan-made conversions of her original CV UTAU voicebank such as a VCV voicebank developed by Near, a DeepVocal port developed by ematares, and a DiffSinger port by tigermeat, in addition to numerous other ports and conversions, all of which have been released with permission granted from missile39. Through an official collaboration with missile39 and Yamaha Corporation's VOCALOID FAN-ding initiative following a successful crowdfunding campaign hosted by the Japanese platform CAMPFIRE, Adachi Rei is expected to release for both the VOCALOID5 editor, as a standard concatenative voicebank, currently showcased as a prototype, as well as an AI voicebank expected to be released for VOCALOID6. She was formerly expected to release for both engines following the campaign in April 2026. Crowdfund supporters received Early Access access editions to both voicebanks in July 2026. Her voice was artificially generated in Audacity specifically to create a choppy and robotic sound.

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Concept

Adachi Rei is conceptualized to be a life-size character humanoid bishoujo robot. Rei began as a fully computer-generated UTAU. The process was done by adding sine waves together in the Audacity audio software (also known as additive synthesis), creating consonants from a synthesized xylophone sample, running the samples through the VST plug-in Vocalizer, and finally editing it all once again in Audacity. She has a choppy and robotic sound.

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Etymology

Her code name "HCI3-P0", stands for Humanoid Character Interface 3 Prototype. The "A" (足) in Adachi may mean 'foot', 'sufficient' or 'satisfy' while "Dachi" (立) means 'stand' or 'exist'. While a meaning can be derived from the name, such as "to stand on one's feet" or "to satisfy existence", Adachi is simply a common Japanese surname. "Rei" (レイ) is a common Japanese given name. It is also one of the pronunciations of the numeral 0 (zero) in Japanese, which could reference "Prototype 0".

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Appearance

Adachi Rei has orange, shoulder length hair styled into a side-ponytail on the left side of her head. Her headgear consists of a black, router-like device with antennas, a white ribbon, and a microchip hair clip. Her headset is black with power switches, various computer ports, and a headlamp. She has orange eyes with a camera lens in the pupil of each eye. Her outfit consists of a black turtleneck, baggy white jacket with "00 ADACHI REI" on the left side with black pockets, loose AUX/USB wires in red and black, plaid-patterned grey pleated culottes (often depicted as simple grey shorts), orange belt, black leggings, and a pair of orange and white sneakers. According to missile39, her clothes are based on a firefighter's uniform: the orange stripes resemble reflective safety stripes on a turnout coat, to make arm and leg movement easily visible.

Her VOCALOID6 main visual is illustrated by Kitsune, who published a rough concept on December 26, 2025. missile39 is credited as designer, and is also the illustrator of the VOCALOID5 main visual

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History

Pre-VOCALOID: In 2017, production was started on creating Adachi Rei. After successfully building a life-sized Hatsune Miku robot, missile39 went on to create their own original character robot. On February 15, a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding campaign was launched to help fund the construction of the robot. The goal was set for 3 million yen and surpassed that goal hitting a total of ¥3,596,499 from 184 backers. The rewards for backing were set to be sent out in December 2021. To go with the robot, a singing voicebank was to be created for UTAU. Rei's voice would be modified from various digital synthesized samples to create a voicebank capable of singing in Japanese. The samples were modified in Audacity to create a more genuine robotic, choppy, and low-quality artificial sound.[11] The parts for her robot were digitally modeled and 3D printed. Her UTAU voicebank was finally completed and released on October 12, 2019. On March 9, 2021, a new CAMPFIRE campaign went up, this time for a REPLIVOICE software powered by A.I.VOICE. Unlike the previous UTAU voicebank which is capable of singing, this voicebank would be capable of speech. The goal this time was set to 3.5 million yen and once again surpassed it at ¥4,547,039 form 256 backers. On July 30, Mechanical Girl released a press release revealing the final boxart and release date for Rei. She was set to be released on October 23. A trial version was also released on her BOOTH product page alongside the ability to buy her voicebank both physically and digitally. On May 3, 2025, tigermeat posted that he had a surprise in regards to Adachi Rei to show soon. This was revealed to be a port of Rei for DiffSinger, which was mainly a Japanese voice library. But through Cross-Language Synthesis, she was able to sing in English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, French (noted to be trained with "Millefeuille"), Spanish, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, German, Italian, and Polish, with more planned in the future. She was released on the same day with permission from missile39, and the library would be managed and updated by tigermeat. According to her page on tigermeat's website, the audio used to create her DiffSinger library was sourced from her UTAU 3.1.2 voicebank. On May 7, tigermeat had thrown together more data for Rei to assist with her range issues. Another round of training was planned within the next few weeks after labelling. He noted that he had Rei "record" a CVVC reclist, and after labelling, he manually shifted the pitch a little. Using extra samples, he added consonants to create non-Japanese sounds, such as "fr/en", "fr/un", and "en/ax". This set her to fifteen minutes of data as opposed to her initial eight minutes in the version he had released. This would help her sound more stable in languages other than Japanese. On September 1, tigermeat accidentally deleted all of the DiffSinger voicebanks under his management while attempting to clean his Google Drive account. While reuploading them, he decided to upload a slightly upgraded version of Rei's DiffSinger voicebank rather than wait for a larger collective update

VOCALOID

2025: On November 25, 2025, Yamaha Corporation launched the VOCALOID FAN-ding initiative, a collaboration with CAMPFIRE where Yamaha plays a support role in crowdfunding projects for future VOCALOID voicebanks. The first project to be announced under the program was a campaign to bring Adachi Rei to the VOCALOID software; in the intro video, a test VOCALOID5 voicebank built from samples of the purely-artificial voice was showcased singing a very short snippet of "Pond Rain" (池の雨), a cover of a German folk song. The crowdfund campaign was scheduled to open on December 1 and run for a total of 61 days; among its stretch goals was an attempt to derive an AI voicebank for VOCALOID6 to allow her to sing not just in Japanese but also in English and Mandarin Chinese. Less than 24 hours after the crowdfund started on December 1 (as expected), both the main goal (the concatenative VOCALOID voicebank) and the second stretch goal (the VOCALOID:AI voicebank attempt) were met. Two other prospective vocals were also announced to be applying to VOCALOID FAN-ding: Akatsuki Luci, an AI voicebank based on the voice of the homonymous virtual YouTuber, and a singing AI voicebank for Tsunose Kotone, a web-radio personality who originally debuted as a text-to-speech voicebank for A.I.VOICE in May 2023. No start dates were revealed for these two as they were still making preparations. On December 26, a rough concept illustration by Kitsune of the expected VOCALOID6 design for Adachi Rei, was published by Yamaha. Ideas were brainstormed together with Kitsune, missile39, and Takemoto of Yamaha Corporation the day prior with many variations of the character design line art designed by Kitsune attempting to finalize the colors. missile39 commended Kitsune's illustration work for their clean, crisp, and smooth "beautiful girl" style.

2026: In celebration of the New Year on January 1st, 2026, Yamaha uploaded the third demo showcasing the prototype VOCALOID5 voicebank, 春の海 (Haru no Umi). Two styles were showcased including a "piano" style (#pf) and a "trumpet" style (#tp).[35] missile39 noted it was interesting how the two styles sounded similar to voices due to the use of Rei's original vocals. On January 12, 500% of the original crowdfunds goal was achieved.[37] Upon reaching ¥30 million yen in support on January 14, Yamaha announced the next stretch goal for the production of an original 3D model for VOCALOID Adachi Rei. missile39 plans for the 3D model to be created by a "serious professional". On January 20, the stretch goal was achieved prompting the production of the 3D model. On January 22, 2026, Yamaha announced the 6th and final stretch goal upon reaching ¥35 million yen which would include the production of an original demo song produced by VOCALOID producer, Satsuki (also known as 32ki). This goal was achieved on January 27, with 4 days left of the campaign, reaching 700% of the initial goal. On January 28, with over ¥38 million yen raised, with three days left of the campaign, production began on the VOCALOID:AI version, and was noted that it was beginning to sound like it could actually sing. Yamaha stated they were still experimenting and planned to show the the results to everyone as soon as possible, asking fans to wait a little longer. On January 29, with only two days left of the campaign, Yamaha and missile39 announced a commemorative livestream to be held on misslile39's channel following the end of the campaign on Saturday, January 31 at 23:59.[49] The same day, missile39 released additional concepts of both the VOCALOID5 and VOCALOID6 editions of Adachi Rei's designs, highlighting details of each one.[50] For the VOCALOID6 design, the illustration is based on the VOCALOID6 editor in addition to piano elements. The robot-like elements of Adachi Rei's design were reduced and music was described as being the central theme. A symbol or mark based on the Perceptron was shown and is only expected to appear on the VOCALOID6 (AI version). The jacket was drawn in such a way featuring faint patterns reminiscent of the VOCALOID6 editor interface, but from a distance appears solid black. Despite this, missile39 wanted to include VOCALOID editor elements. missile39 deliberately illustrated the design with this amount of black so that it would be fine to just draw it solid black. In addition, rather than having it look too much like a checkered pattern, this amount of black in the design made it so that one could just barely make out something if they look closely. On her forehead, placed atop her hair, features a Yamaha-branded integrated circuit (IC) chip, referencing the NSX-1 chip used in the eVocaloid and Pocket Miku products, and was rendered as "YAMAHA YMW820-S 1347VF-BC". missile39 noted that the concept designs, as well as all designs of Adachi Rei, were influenced by the style of Yū Yabūchi, a manga illustrator. missile39 in particular was inspired by a manga that they had read in the 4th grade. Yū Yabūchi later replied that their daughter has been obsessed with Adachi Rei for a few years and was also a supporter of the Adachi Rei crowdfund, even writing an essay on Adachi Rei. For the VOCALOID5 design, respective black-and-white outfits for both the conventional and AI versions were designed, the VOCALOID5 design having an overall white-theme. The crowdfunding-exclusive package was announced to include both the conventional and AI designs.[56] Originally, the VOCALOID5 design was expected to be a sketch intended for Kitsune to create the official V6 package illustration, however, due to design constraints, it required a significant amount of detail to convey the intended expression. Consequently, it ended up being heavily detailed while maintaining a pose reminiscent of a concept sketch.[57] This design was illustrated in a similar vein to Adachi Rei's UTAU illustration and is solely expected to be illustrated by missile39. Upon the final day of the crowdfund, on January 30, needing only 5 more backers to reach 2000 supporters, the Premium Application Plan SSS reward tier was reduced to only a single slot left. To commemorate this achievement, a special reward tier was added presenting Adachi Rei-themed handwritten autographs and an exclusive talk event. This was achieved soon after, reaching over ¥40 million yen in support, exceeding 800% of the initial goal. The same day a prototype demonstration of her VOCALOID6 voicebank was uploaded featuring a second version of 池の雨 (Ike no Ame). missile39 remarked it as being "quite good", giving it an overall score of 92.5 points. It was also remarked as having the kind of voice one would expect from a machine with implemented vocal cords singing. A sample of Adachi Rei's VOCALOID boxart was released with 12 hours remaining of the crowdfund, surpassing ¥42 million yen. On January 31, nearing the end of the crowdfund, the aforementioned livestream was announced to be held at 23:00 JST. Takemoto from Yamaha was expected to make a guest appearance[66][67] The crowdfund concluded with 955% of the funds sourced, reaching 2,482 supporters and a total of ¥47,765,001 yen raised. On July 22, Yamaha announced that they were going to distribute early access versions to the backers of the crowdfunding campaign that same day

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(Yes sex allowed.)