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Hi i remember you talked about VY project from AI voice on tumblr? it just got terminated because Nancy's voice actress said she had no idea yamaha was using her voice for such purpose, kind of crazy. Would have never expected yamaha to pull something like this. RIP VY project
i heard, it's SOOO crazy!! i was really hoping it'd lead into them getting proper v6 updates, but... this kind of situation... it's really no good HAHAHA i assume vy1/2 seiyuu probably had an idea of what was going on (gut feeling) but the entire thing with nancy's is 100 layers of ridiculousness. my jaw was on the ground reading "yeah they made me read lines in an exaggerated gaijin accent [even though i can do otherwise]". like WHAT...
i don't know if it's a stigma that english speaking voice talent won't like providing for TTS or what... they could have tried being honest about it. no one was really begging for these products especially not nancy, but the fact that they existed as a novelty is pretty cool to me. you know, since i'm a weirdo who thinks most mascots should get speech synth banks in some form
kinda insane the other two went down as collateral but i hope nancy's voice actress at least got some kind of settlement money or something~~~ 😭
kinda fucked how products can just up and vanish like this
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