Audine

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Audine
Character information
Gender	Feminine
Pronouns	She/Her/They/Them
Technical information
Type	VOCALOID4, Maghni AI
Language	English, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese
Concept	Necronatural
Illustrator	Necronatural (Debut) Crossy (Maghni AI)
Company	VocaTone
Affiliation	Misbah Studios

Audine is an upcoming vocal synthesizer character to be developed by VocaTone Studio in collaboration with Misbah Studios for the upcoming singing synthesis engine Maghni AI. She is expected to be released as a Maghnite for Maghni AI in December 2024, following a successful crowdfunding campaign launched in December 2023. She was formerly developed as an unreleased, private beta voicebank for VOCALOID4.

Concept

Audine was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and a video star. Silver was chosen for her in contrast to Aurum's gold to create chemistry between the two.

As part of the IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign, Audine was given a slightly updated profile and description of her vocal. Audine is described as an adorable, energetic, and bright feminine voice, that was noted to "sound amazing in pretty much any genre" with a specialty in techno and future bass music.

Etymology

The name Audine is a combination of the word “audio" and "ne”.

Appearance

• Debut
• Maghni AI

In December 2020, with the announcement of VocaTone's official vocal synthesizer Maghni AI, Audine, made her official debut accompanied by an illustration created by Necronatural. Audine is depicted with tan skin, magenta eyes, and silver hair that gradates to a light shade of purple, styled in a high ponytail. Two strands of hair split from her bangs towards the back of her head. She wears a dark lavender, floral-printed sweater atop a dark magenta, black lace-trimmed skirt underneath a black and grey-trimmed poncho. Around her neck she wears a black choker with a pink round light and a grey scarf with brown stripes. As seen in official concept artwork, also illustrated by Necronatural, she wears a dark lavender Obi-styled belt or sash on her waist, with a matching ribbon trailing down from the back, obscured by the poncho. Her black and neon-pink mechanical arms and legs feature defined ball-point joints, alluding to her android nature that reach up to her collarbone. She wears a pair of sheep-horn styled headphones, covering a pink LED light in the center. She carries a silver and black microphone in her right hand attached to a pink cord.

In 2023, with the production of Maghni AI entering the crowdfunding phase, Audine's design was updated, featuring a new illustration by Crossy, the project's lead illustrator, featuring updated elements to her design. Audine's color scheme features more magenta elements rather than the previous darker grey and lavender color scheme. Her magenta and pink flower-trimmed capelet is shorter and more open, revealing more of the outfit underneath. She wears a two-tone magenta high-waisted skirt with black lace underneath a darker magenta and pink-trimmed half-skirt, decorated by for diamond-shaped jewels and a magenta floral-printed turtleneck sweater. Her curly and full ponytail, now a light shade of purple with a silver interior is tied up using a beige scrunchie. Her signature sheep-horn styled headphones are now black and clip over her LED ears. Around her neck she wears a long light pink gradient muffler-styled scarf, extending below her knees. Her mechanical joints now feature gray vents on the underside.

Relations

• Aurum - Counterpart

History

2016

On December 10, 2016, VocaTone announced that they were working on a new vocal. When asked about it, they confirmed that it was a separate vocal from the previously revealed ausgris.

2017

In July 2017, VocaTone stated that they were making steady progress with 3 potential English vocals.

2020

On December 14, 2020, VocaTone posted a teaser image featuring two toy figures, with a quote stating that "our strategy is in motion". On December 18, VocaTone posted teaser images of the eyes of two new characters in production, with artwork illustrated by Necronatural and encouraged fans to "keep two eyes open" for an announcement the following week. On December 22, VocaTone posted two images of the silhouettes of the two previously teased characters, offering a "sneak peek" of what would be coming in the next few days.

On December 25, 2020, VocaTone revealed they were working in collaboration with Misbah Studios to create a new vocal synthesizer, Maghni AI, which needed to be funded via Kickstarter. The first two vocalists were revealed to be Audine and Aurum, the latter being the final version of ausgris. Both were expected to be made trilingual in English, Japanese, and Spanish according to their reveal video. The announcement of their new software suggests that VocaTone departed from VOCALOID. In a Christmas Q&A with Natalia Shmueli, the owner of Misbah Studios on the VocaVerse Discord, she mentioned that Audine's voice was "absolutely adorable" and "Super bright and cute".

2021

On June 4, 2021, VocaTone noted that due to the rush of meeting the previous deadline for the Kickstarter fundraiser, the team finalized designs for the characters earlier than intended. With a new deadline in mind, Aurum and Audine's designs would have have a bit more time to be developed.

Aurum and Audine received new designs following the VocaTone Studio rebrand and the launch of the newly refreshed official website.

2022

On January 16, 2022, following the renewal of their official Blog on the VocaTone website, VocaTone announced that they would be providing monthly updates on the development of Maghni AI. They noted that development had been in progress for nearly a year at this point and were very excited to announce the near completion of the beta version of Maghni AI. It was noted that the beta engine itself was complete, the final mission would be to complete the GUI and wrap up the development of the demonstration voice libraries.

On February 11, 2022, VocaTone released their February update on their official blog, noting the significant progress on the software's GUI, including the completion of the piano roll and the section for parameter manipulation being nearly finished. It was also noted that the voice library development for Aurum and Audine was steadily progressing. Two additional voice library developers joined the project as members of VocaTone Studio, and would help to speed up the development process. At this time, the linguistics president noted that Maghni AI could support up to 71 languages including:

• Akkadian
• Albanian
• Amharic
• Arabic
• Armenian
• Basque
• Belarusian
• Bengali
• Bulgarian
• Cantonese
• Carolinian
• Catalan
• Chamorro
• Cherokee
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Esperanto
• Finnish
• French
• Georgian
• German
• Greek
• Hausa
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew
• Hindustani
• Hokkien
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Italian
• Jamaican Patois
• Japanese
• Kazakh
• Khmer
• Kinyarwanda
• Kiowa
• Korean
• Kurdish
• Laotian
• Latin
• Malay
• Mandarin
• Mongolian
• Nahuatl
• Norweigian
• Odia
• Ojibwe
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Scottish
• Serbo-Croatian
• Somali
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Thai
• Toki Pona
• Turkish
• Ukranian
• Vietnamese
• Welsh
• Wu
• Zulu

It was noted that Aurum and Audine may or may not support these language models. On March 7, 2022 the next monthly update revealed that the beta version of Maghni AI was at 90% completion, and would soon be distributed to the designated beta testers.

The May 22, 2022 update included the development of multithreading - connecting the back-end of Maghni AI to the GUI that the user would utilize to make the vocal instruments sing.

On June 7, 2022, VocaTone updated their licensing to include terms of use for their characters including Oliver, Aurum, and Audine.

2023

On September 20, 2023, VocaTone announced their continued research into the the use artificial intelligence. It was noted that while the engine had previously used artificial intelligence features on top of a concatenative base, the team announced the complete transition to AI generation. Updates were noted to be limited and VocaTone presented a brief update on the work with funding groups that was "paying off" and were seeing significant progress in that pursuit. VocaTone noted that all of their libraries and other features for launch were being prepared and had hoped to share them soon.

On December 20, 2023, VocaTone announced the completion of the Maghni AI engine through a comic featuring Aurum and Audine with the crowdfunding campaign announced to be held through IndieGoGo beginning on December 26. An early first look at the GUI, highly-requested features and backer-exclusive merchandise would be announced and fans were encouraged to stayed tuned. On December 24, a promotional image of Audine was posted at the two-day mark for the crowdfund.

The Maghni AI IndeGoGo was officially launched on December 26, 2023. A promotional teaser was uploaded featuring Oliver and producer CircusP showcasing a teaser of Oliver's Maghni AI database, aiming for a winter 2024 release. The crowdfund featured various tier rewards offering a selection of merchandise featuring the three VocaTone characters, including Aurum, Audine and Oliver. A Audine-themed tier, the "Audine Aficionado" tier, includes a downloadable PDF file including the concept art for all the VocaTone characters, and a Aurum-themed tier, the "Aurum Advocate" tier, includes a selection of specially illustrated wallpapers including the VocaTone characters. Other tiers included merchandise such as a set of thank you cards, bookmarks, and stickers featuring the three VocaTone characters. They were also included in a button set featuring Aurum, Audine, and Oliver as well as an exclusive keychain, prints of the VocaTone character concept arts and wallpaper illustrations. As part of the campaign, an exclusive IndieGoGo campaign only physical box was in development. Two tiers: the Digital Voice Pick-One tier or the Physical Voice Pick-One tier, offers supporters the option to pick either a digital or physical copy of Aurum, Audine, or Oliver to receive on the launch of Maghni AI, also receiving an exclusive associated keychain as well as all previous rewards. A Completionist Bundle tier was also offered offering supporters the chance to receive every previous reward including all three libraries with a special box cover for each, a fundraiser-exclusive pillow, each of the character keychains, and early access to the Maghni AI editor before it's public release. The final Maghni Maker Deluxe tier allowed supporters who were interested in developing a voice library the exclusive early access slot to develop a voice library for Maghni AI, scheduled to be fulfilled shortly after the end of the year one development cycle. Additional add-on tiers were also included such as a custom additional voice sample to the preorder-exclusive voice material bundle, a digital album containing all of the Maghni AI launch demo songs, a "Olirondo" full comic print, featuring Aurum, Audine, and Oliver as well as the Digital Library Standalone tier, allowing supporters who did not wish to receive the merchandise to receive the three launch libraries and secure a digital download code for one of the libraries early. Additional stretch goals were announced for additional demo songs for each launch library, alternate box art inserts for each launch library, additional voice colors for each launch library, additional supported language for each launch library, art-accurate 3D models for Oliver, Aurum, and Audine, as well as Consumer-led projects based on polling. Audine was announced as a Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano vocalist with a optimal range of A3~D6. Her voice was described as an adorable, energetic, and bright feminine voice, that was noted to "sound amazing in pretty much any genre" with a specialty in techno and future bass music.

A special celebratory Q&A livestream, marking the halfway point of the crowdfund, was held by VocaTone staff on January 28, answering questions about Maghni AI's development and the IndieGoGo crowdfund.

On December 29, 2023 VocaTone announced the official Maghni AI rollout schedule timeline, with Audine's re-recording stage announced to begin in February 2024, her first English demo to release in April 2024,, Audine's Mandarin Chinese demo to be released in July 2024, beta testing to begin in November 2024 and the final Maghni AI release in December 2024.

The IndieGoGo $20,000.00 goal was reached on December 31, 2023, shifting a focus to the stretch goals.

2024

A sneak peak of the crowdfunding exclusive storybook box covers and keychains were revealed on Jaunary 6, 2024. The first stretch goal was reached two days later on January 8, prompting the development of additional demo songs for each library.

The third stretch goal was met on January 25, 2024 on the eve of the crowdfunding's end date prompting for the development of additional voice colors for Oliver, Aurum, and Audine allowing for an even wider range of expression. The same day, concept draft illustrations for Aurum's Spanish, Oliver's French, and Audine's Mandarin Chinese potential designs were released. Following the reveal, prior to the conclusion of the Maghni AI IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign, VocaTone posted a sample of Audine and Aurum's voice providers singing, giving users a sample of what the vocalists are intended to sound like.

The crowdfund ended on January 26, 2024, garnering a total of $38,430 USD raised by 287 backers.

Marketing

Audine has been featured in various pieces of merchandise created by VocaTone as rewards for the IndieGoGo campaign, including illustrated wallpapers, concept artwork, a set of thank you cards, bookmarks, and stickers. She was also included in a button set featuring Aurum, Audine, and Oliver as well as an exclusive keychain, and prints of the VocaTone character concept arts and wallpaper illustrations. As part of the campaign, an exclusive IndieGoGo campaign only physical storybook box is in development.

Voicebanks

• Audine (Maghni AI), In development, expected for December 2024.

External links

Official

• Official VocaTone Studio Website
• Official VocaTone Studio Twitter
• Official VocaTone Studio YouTube Channel
• Official VocaTone Facebook
• Official VocaTone Studio Online Store
• Official Maghni AI Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign