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INTEREST: Animegaphone Turns Heads With Voice-Changing Tech




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Juno016



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:48 pm Reply with quote
Will this fix the problem or cause more problems when all the fans start complaining about the old men using it in the public? Anime hyper
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Lemonchest



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 5:17 am Reply with quote
Hundreds died at Comiket today when the use of an anime voice megaphone by stewards caused a stampede of otaku who thought their favourite VA was in the crowd.
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kotomikun



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:45 am Reply with quote
The concept of this is kind of weird, since anime characters are voiced by humans, and this thing seems to be a voice synthesizer that makes you sound like a Vocaloid. It's hard to tell, though, because that melodramatic video only had like one second of audio from the device.

I can't see this being used in place of an actual megaphone, but maybe the whole "practical uses" theme is part of the joke?
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TG72



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:16 am Reply with quote
I could sound like Kotori Koiwai? I'd probably be arrested for running through malls yelling "Nyanpasu"!
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Usagi-kun



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:09 pm Reply with quote
That PV was...intense. I agree that I would also use this for pranks rather than practical crowd control.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:25 am Reply with quote
Juno016 wrote:
Will this fix the problem or cause more problems when all the fans start complaining about the old men using it in the public? Anime hyper

Don't give those old men any ideas.
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