We have already had something to try in English (native in the software), Italian (because YES), Neapolitan (also), then we ventured into the “Czech” language (thanks to the idea developed with a native speaker friend).
We recently tried a song in German (with fair success among other German-speaking Users) and today…
Un petit peu de français, s’il vous plaît…
“Porque tu m’aimes encore…”
Cela rappelle plus l’espagnol ce titre ! lol
Je crois voir la voix “Cong Zheng” (non cité dans ce post).
A part quelques mots, c’est assez bien reproduit malgré l’accent et bon choix pour Celine (et son accent canadien natif). Vivement le français dans les voicebanks!
Mais ce résultat est pas mal du tout!
Merci @jfa
I don’t speak french at all
But I love to reproduce all the language I can caught the phonetics and try to make SynthesizerV sing whatever language technically possible
By the way @jfa , “Cong Zheng” is mentioned in the description of the YouTube video.
It sounds nice to me, and I don’t know anything in French except for a few words.
Lol , finally I noticed…
“Purquoi tu m’aimes encore”
The exact word is in fact “Pourquoi tu m’aimes…”
I noticed again …
But actually it’s “Pour que tu m’aimes encore”. She is not asking “Why” effectively, but is urging “so that” he still loves her.
Yes It’s better to follow the real lyrics.
Hello,
As someone who is also trying to make Synthesizer V sing in french (with Felicia), I must say that this is an amazing job—congratulations!
But… we’re not quite there yet. Once again, the work on the voice is incredible. However, for someone who is natively francophone, it sounds really strange. At first, one might think, “Okay, it’s an English speaker singing, so of course, she sings French with an English accent.” But the issues go beyond that—it’s almost as if the synthetic voice isn’t even capable of singing (or pronouncing) French as well as an actual English singer would. Do you see what I mean? There’s a limitation that goes beyond just singing in another language.
Between English and French, there are differences, but it’s not like the gap between English and Arabic. A native English-speaking singer technically has, through her mouth, lips, vocal cords, and brain, the ability to pronounce any French word. The synthetic voice simply cannot do it, technically speaking.
On my end, I work as follows:
Record a real voice
Process the vocal track in Cubase to extract a MIDI track based on the analog recording
Use GPT-4o, specially trained with phoneme dictionaries, to analyze and produce the closest possible phonetic transcription for each word (including using multiple languages if necessary)
So far, so good.
Inject the MIDI track into SV
Apply phonemes and tweak the parameters.
And yet, no matter what, it just doesn’t sound right! Lol.
My biggest dream for 2025: the release of French voices! I’m actually waiting for them to arrive before upgrading SV.
PS: In the example you produced (a Céline Dion cover), I also noticed that vocal range seems to have an impact. The higher the pitch, the less accurate the pronunciation sounds—in French, at least. It’s as if the pronunciation issues become even more noticeable one octave higher than they are one octave lower.
But once again, hats off! Great work.
@Scimation Thank you for your clarifications in your long and well-appreciated examination.
This would have been my first and perhaps only work in French.
I do not speak French.
I simply reconstructed the phrases as heard from the original, perhaps with Celine’s Canadian accent, solely to motivate the community to believe more in the own possibilities working with SynthesizerV.
Just as I also did a German cover previously, where however the language is a little more familiar to me.
We would all like our own languages implemented in the software, but that might happen as well as never come true.
However, I want to show that with good will and practice the unthinkable can be done.
Even having all the languages available, it must be admitted that everyone would object to the accents because they would differ from listener to listener, depending on the geographical point of origin.
I don’t even write in English with SynthesizerV, but being an Italian songwriter, I have found a way to employ the software, in my recording studio where I prepare all my productions in Italian, also a language not (yet) present in SynthesizerV, with all the necessary workarounds to make it sound the best in my native language.
By the way… It’s not Felicia, it’s Cong Zheng actually.
mmm awesome achievement. I m a french native and quite impressed by your work. i realize that there are some very specific french sounds hard to reproduce like nasal sounds (an, in, on) i confess i can hear a strong accent, however i can easily understand all the lyrics. Bravo !!! it s really encouraging
Hi all,
I’d like to send an example (wave files) of what I’m trying to do, but how do I send this type of file to the forum?
Thanks
I gave you this information here: French vocal/voices for synthesizer v - #5 by Bobox
Dropbox is free and easy to register an account.
Your attempt is very good indeed except the ‘r’ is too strong and quite Spanish in character in places - but I can understand what’s being sung so it grrrreat !
But it’s not very different from Celine’s accent