CeVIO Creative Studio

CeVIO is the collective name of a range of projects, Vision (digital signage) and Creative Studio (audio creation software). CeVIO was made to assist in the creation of user-generated content.^[1] 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, though you have the option to manually edit it yourself if need be. 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.

It also offers a version called "CeVIO Creative Studio FREE". This is a free demo version of CeVIO available for download from CeVIO's website. Sato Sasara is the only voice available for use in this version. In the Free version, 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.

In the commercial version, more options for fine-tuning became available. Fine-Tune Amplitude Timing, which allows editing of the choppiness. Pitch can be adjusted like before, but now pitch-bends are also able to be edited, along with vibrato and vibrato timing are also able to be edited. Most importantly, volume and dynamics can be edited. 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".

On the 14th of November 2014, an upgrade "CeVIO Creative Studio S" was announced.^[2]

Products

CeVIO

• Sato Sasara (さとうささら), a female vocal, this vocal is capable of singing and speech.
• Suzuki Tsudumi (すずきつづみ) a female vocal, this vocal is only capable of speech.
• Takahashi (タカハシ) a male vocal, this vocal is only capable of speech.

First Place

• ONE (オネ) is a female vocal, this vocal is capable of speech, she is the second vocal in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project, the first being the Vocaloid IA.^[3] On March 27th, 2015 she was announced to be receiving a singing vocal, for release on May 22nd, 2015.^[4]

XING Inc.

• Akasaki Minato (赤咲湊) is a 25 year old male vocal, this is the first of a series called "Color Voice Series" by company XING Inc. He has singing capabilities only and represents the color Red.^[5][6] The vocal is a counterpart to Kizaki Airi.
• Midorizaki Kasumi (緑咲香澄) a 27 year old female vocal and the second of "Color Voice Series". She has singing capabilities only and represents the color Green. She was released alongside Akasaki Minato on February 19th, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Shirosaki Yuudai.
• Ginsaki Yamato (銀咲大和) is the third member of the series and is a 52 year old male vocal representing the color Silver. He has singing capabilities only. He was released alongside Kinzaki Koharu on March 19th, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Kinzaki Koharu.
• Kinzaki Koharu (金咲小春) is the fourth member of the "Color Voice Series". She is a 52 year old female voice representing Gold. She has only singing capabilities. She was released alongside Ginsaki Yamato on March 19th, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Ginsaki Yamato.
• Shirosaki Yuudai (白咲雄大) is the fifth member of the series and represents the color White. He has only singing capabilities only. Other details currently unknown. He will be released alongside Kizaki Airi on April 23rd, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Midorizaki Kasumi.
• Kizaki Airi (黄咲愛理) is the sixth member of the "Color Voice Series", representing the color "Yellow". She only has singing capabilities. Other details unknown. She will be released alongside Shirosaki Yuudai on April 23rd, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Akasaki Minato.

Reception

In 2013 it won the MicrosoftⓇ Innovation Award 2013 award.^[7] It also won an award in the CEDEC Awards 2013 event, after receiving 300,000 downloads.^[8]

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