RUBY has three pitches of articulations thanks to the number of phonemes involved.
In October 2015, Prince Syo, created a custom dictionaries with four languages, (English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese): Official download and Announcement tweet. RUBY's voice was confirmed by Misha as being achieved via voice acting. The resulting nasally tone was put down by Misha as either a result of the English sounds turning out more nasally, or because of the Vocaloid engine. PowerFX described her as "a youthful female vocalist with a smooth, joyful sound with the power and soul to ”kick it out” when needed."Īccording to Misha RUBY has the same voice as her UTAU Hachi had for recording. RUBY is a young, female voice with a strong tone and general American Accent. Trial/Demo Vers?: No Starter Available?: Yes Product Information Early Production Samples Her physical version and bundle package were made available on December 12. She was officially released as a digital download on October 7. On September 23, it was noted that she was to be delayed. Boxed versions would be available afterwards. Later that day, he tweeted that the release date of the download version would be the September 23. On September 18, Syo tweeted that RUBY would be released within the month. Natasha commented that doing the art made her very happy. It took 3 days to produce the art instead of the expected 1–2 weeks. Īfter resolving miscommunication issues with PowerFX, it was confirmed that Natasha Allegri would illustrate the design for the physical copy of RUBY based on the concept Misha, the voice provider, worked on. Examples had to be sent in and he would decide if the song would be accepted as a demo. On June 10, Syo asked for original songs that he could use for RUBY demos within a week. Her English recordings were redone to sound similar to her Japanese voicebank.
It was also confirmed that RUBY originally had a Japanese voicebank, but this was scrapped. They wanted to see how well the voicebank sold before adding any additional voicebanks. In addition, PowerFX was only willing to pay for one English voicebank.
The extra workload was owed to the increase in triphonetic data. Syo expressed a desire to create at least two voicebanks for RUBY to take advantage of VOCALOID4's cross synthesis capabilities, but was unsure due to the doubled workload. It was announced that RUBY would be associated with PowerFX. However, there was no objection to them existing so long as everyone acknowledged that they were of early versions of RUBY's vocal and that they did not reflect the current status of the project. The originals had been removed and someone else re-uploaded them. Syo explained that these test audio clips were not the original uploads of these samples. At the time, it was not confirmed if the concept art would be used in RUBY's final design or whether either of the artists were to be chosen as the final illustrator.Įarly in 2015, some early production samples of RUBY were discovered. On October 30, Natasha Allegri posted concept images. It was revealed that she and another artist had been requested to submit concept art for consideration. However, Bil Bryant, the CEO of PowerFX, revealed in October that RUBY would be delayed so that she could be updated to the VOCALOID4 engine. At the time, RUBY was affiliated only with VocaTone, but not PowerFX. On September 19, 2014, Syo publicly revealed that he and Anders were working on a VOCALOID and a voice sample of RUBY was posted. Anders later remarked that at no point was anyone promised any control over the final design and that it was his decision to choose PowerFX.
The two chose PowerFX because they would allow more control over the design. Anders thought that Zero-g and PowerFX would be better candidates because he had worked with and trusted them. It became clear that Crypton would not allow much creative freedom at all. Īt some point, Syo searched for companies that could support RUBY and PowerFX, Zero-G and Crypton expressed interest in the project. Despite Anders helping Syo, a development team did not exist, since Syo exclusively worked on RUBY for the most part. Half a year later, he was joined by Anders, who had previously worked for VocaTone. RUBY started as an independent project in December 2013 with only Prince Syo working on her.