Voice & identity / Guide
Comp the vocal before you transform it
Why the performance edit should settle breath, consonant, and timing decisions before any pitch, voice, or style conversion.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftVoice & identity
The voice belongs to someone
Performance, language and permission are different problems. Prepare the vocal thoughtfully and keep the person behind it visible.
Voice & identity / Guide
Run a multilingual lyric session with meaning and mouth-shape in view
A practical planning method for pronunciation, scansion, backtranslation, and human singer verification—without pretending a literal translation is a performance.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftHistory / Archive
Hatsune Miku launched as a commercial voice bank with a licence
Crypton Future Media's own materials date Hatsune Miku's release and show the character and voice rights were licensed in separate stages.
3 min read 31 August 2007 event · prepared 16 September 2026Artists & releases / Archive
Grimes offered her voice as a licensed model with a royalty split
Elf.tech's own 2023 terms set an equal royalty share and an approval step for releasing music with Grimes's AI voiceprint.
3 min read April 2023 event · prepared 16 September 2026Tools / Archive
Two voice-conversion services now publish artist consent as a feature
Kits AI and Voice-Swap market artist-approved voice libraries, but their own terms put the consent burden for uploaded voices on the user.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Tools / Archive
An open-source voice cloner ships with no consent gate at all
The RVC voice-conversion project is MIT-licensed, and its own disclaimer puts all legal responsibility for cloned voices on the user.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Artists & releases / Archive
Randy Travis used AI to sing again with his own consent
Warner Music Nashville used a reference vocal and AI modelling to let Randy Travis release new vocals after aphasia silenced him.
3 min read 3 May 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Artists & releases / Archive
A character licence, not a contract, built Miku's fan economy
Crypton's own licence and concert pages describe a dual-licence system that has let fans write Hatsune Miku's catalogue since 2007.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
A voice clone’s consent has to satisfy a statute and a platform
Tennessee’s ELVIS Act and two platforms’ own terms show what a written consent for a cloned voice needs to state.
3 min read Practice record — prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
A union and the major labels wrote AI consent into a contract
SAG-AFTRA and the major labels reached a 2024 sound-recordings agreement requiring consent and minimum pay before an AI voice replica ships.
3 min read 12 April 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026