Overview
Speech synthesis (音声合成, onnseigousei) is a term for technologies to artificially create human voices. In particular, those that synthesize singing voices are also called singing voice synthesis.
Such artificially synthesized voices are also called synthetic voices.
Today, this technology is widely used as software for personal computers, etc. Vocaloid and Voiceroid are well known among those distributed to the general public.
The above-mentioned software for the general public in particular became popular along with the spread of video distribution sites such as Nico Nico Douga and YouTube, where users can easily post their creations, because even amateurs can create songs and talk pieces using voice synthesis to some extent easily.
