Too Long, Didn’t Read

VoxWave no longer exists as a company, ALYS lives on as an open-source project under the GPL-3.0 and the BY-CC-4.0 license. You can find it at the following address:

https://labs.phundrak.com/phundrak/ALYS

EDIT: The main repository moved to https://labs.phundrak.com/ALYS/ALYS and vocal libraries are now separated in different repositories linked from the main one.

What happened?

You might have noticed it, but VoxWave became quite silent over the last months. This is because we at the head of VoxWave chose to close the company, a decision which came in effect in early September 2021. There’s not much else to say.

However, the good news is the rest still goes on! ALYS as a project is still alive and well! As her creator, I decided to step in and continue its technical support. Since the company no longer exists, and as a free and open-source software supporter, I also decided to open-source ALYS as much as possible. As a result:

You can find the installer of ALYS for Alter/Ego on the repository linked above as well as a free licence file. Regarding its UTAU version, its prototype is already configured with oto.ini files, but the source file for its Alter/Ego version are stripped of any configuration.

What’s New?

Therefore, ALYS is now available under three different licences:

• The character is now under the free CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence
• The UTAU vocal libraries are now under the GPL-3.0license (short readable version)
• The Alter/Ego is still under a proprietary licence under my name, but it is now available free of charge

Basically, this means you can do whatever you wish with the character as long as it is non-commercial, and you credit Saphirya, ALYS’ designer. The UTAU vocal libraries can be used, modified, and redistributed as much as you wish as long as it stays under the GPL-3.0 licence. And you are free to use the Alter/Ego vocal libraries as much as you wish, but you cannot redistribute or modify them.

I also decided to release ALYS’ very first, secret, unreleased, unheard French vocal library. It was scrapped no long after recording it due to quality issues and was replaced by its French UTAU prototype people could hear through ALYS’ first songs. It is released more as a way of preserving the fact it existed rather preserving a usable vocal library. (I don’t even remember what it sounds like.)

If you have any question, you are free to email me at [email protected] or open an issue on the repository mentioned above.