>>221408Seems sketchy to me. The 50k figure for a vocaloid is ancient (from the zunko days), 60k for an ai bank with color features being added esp especially doesn't seem unreasonable? Bank dev has always been extremely pricy and the price point quoted seems reasonable. I don't know for sure what the ai bank dev process is like, but it probably involves pricy gpu based processing and having a large dataset that's expensive to gather; I actually work with ai stuff myself, the prices have gone up recently due to equipment shortages and ai experienced devs being super valuable. The poster doesn't even say how much the older banks cost (besides one ref to "half" which I find hard to believe, you recorded over 80 hours audio and did dev time and ai processing for only 30k??? What slave wages would they have been paying everyone involved??), if the pricing difference is because of ai, and we don't even know what a v5 is nowadays. They claim "deep info" but quoting a decade old Googleable price estimate for vocaloid and guesstimating a modern bank with more features and inflation might cost more isn't exactly some esoteric secrets.
I'd believe genbu/volor might not do more if they haven't seen profit, but tons of synth companies have failed in similar ways on all popular engines. It's a big part of why vocaloid died.
Also talking about crowdfunding but not mentioned specific projects? Or MEDIUM5, which is the company that seems most dead set on releasing a ton of banks (a lot of which have been delayed)? Why even focus on VOLOR? The implication that solaria partially faked funding is massive but there's zero proof or mention of how this is possible. Why would solaria be exempt, she's the most recent one? This makes no sense?
Dreamtonics wanting the pro market also seems legit but another "anyone with eyes can tell" fact, and it seems reasonable. They promote character vocals on their website just the same, I don't get how this is viewed as evil. Makes sense for the engine devs to focus on some core pro level vocals and let 3rd parties do the multimedia character stuff.
Also the person is alleging mistreatment but doesn't mention what's wrong besides the price point being 60k and volor being vaguely terrible and not paying well. Sucks for people at volor, but how is that dreamtonics problem? Maybe volor is just a cluster fuck, but they're not the only bank produ
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