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vocaloid.

An artificial singer (a voicebank, usually with an avatar) based on the Vocaloid engine.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. An artificial singer (a voicebank, usually with an avatar) based on the Vocaloid engine.

    countable
    Vocaloid producers often own multiple vocaloids and use them together in a single song.
  2. An artificial singer (a voicebank, usually with an avatar) based on the Vocaloid engine. Any such artificial singer based on other singing voice synthesis software.

    countable · proscribed · sometimes · uncountable
    Kasane Teto is my favourite vocaloid!
  3. Music that uses singing voice synthesizers (particularly those based on Vocaloid).

    uncountable
    I love listening to vocaloid.
  4. A voice synthesis software voicebank, regardless of musicality and presentation.

    countable · proscribed · sometimes
    It was too expensive to hire voice actors for every employee training video, so now we use a vocaloid for the voiceover instead.
Where this word comes from

From Vocaloid, from Japanese VOCALOID(ボーカロイド) (bōkaroido), from English vocal + -oid.

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