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It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week.

God bless anime.

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The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

I really hope these folks get some AI / video masking / voice masking tech that isn't horrible soon.

Dang that video... I think of myself as pretty open to whatever folks want to do and all, but it is really hard to watch that video.

It sounds like something from Interdimensional Cable. Like it's Justin Roiland trying to do an anime girl voice but it comes out as a sort of Mr. Meeseeks screech.

This is the future of our profession. We've gone from long-term, long-form documentation, to blog posts, to talks... in the next ten years it'll just be anime pfps squeaking at each other.

OMG I just saw it for the first time. That's a nightmare. I didn't expect it to be like this when I read your comment.

Yeah the voice changer is crazy. Like the work and sometimes I peak the stream. Wish I could watch it with sound but it's unbearable after a couple of minutes.

What we need is a highly technical VTuber that's good with audio to work on this problem for us!

he's actually very competent at audio, just he really clings to this hardly intelligible voice filter for some reason.

I've seen this channel before. I don't care what the content is, I can't listen to it.

For me, it isn't annoying, I basically cannot understand it most of the time. Which of course kills the whole thing for me.

It’s weird to me that she’s using such a high-pitched voice, because there are many successful VTubers with lower-pitched voices.

Really needs subtitles/closed captions to be enabled!

yea, I tried to watch her livestreams but I can't deal with the voice. Still though, very cool stuff

I'd agree, but the voice chosen annoys the heck out of me.

It would kind of make sense for people who just don't want to show their face even if they don't want to be particularly vtuber-y

I was wondering if this would be more common as the technology developed but it seems like it hasn't and instead there are specific ideas about what vtubers are supposed to be that have become entrenched.

There are some people like Hikalium who are using vtuber avatars for live programming videos but not particularly doing a character though

It's perfectly normal to stream and not show your face at all. Preferring to present as an anime character will always be niche.

Is it? I feel there's a much bigger tendency for westerners to show their mug and speak while Japanese prefer to hide (both mug and voice) if at all possible.

Yeah, definitely. There's a self selection bias where a person who wants to stream is going to tend to be a person who wants to show their face. But it is not weird / frowned upon if there is no face and the content itself (gaming, coding, whatever) is the entire screen. I think most normies would much prefer no face to an anime character.

I do think it would be weird to hide your voice, though.

For once, I'd like to see a VTuber presented as classic Warner Brothers characters. Let's see Porky Pig present this stuff.

(Anyway, the work itself is great!)

More likely it'll be a character like Dot. Or Bugs Bunny in a dress.

I would love to do a tech vtube as Slappy Squirrel.

With deep learning you'll eventually be able to just have a very realistic avatar that looks and sounds like a real person. Might eventually be hard to tell if people are using something like this or not.

It's worth noting that Asahi Lina and Alyssa Rosenzweig are two separate people though their work does overlap [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1533624133929553922

I thought it was Japanese to begin with. I had to listen carefully to parse the English. It seems to be a stylistic choice and I’m sure you get used to it after a while.

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