'IA' is taken from her voice provider's name: 'Lia'. IA had no official age up until March 4, 2022, where she was confirmed to be 16 years old. HIPPI was regarded as a strict teacher to her. Planet ARIA is described as a world similar to Earth with various life forms that resonate and co-exist together, several of whom raised IA and ONE.Īccording to a livestream in June 2021, HIPPI taught IA how to play guitar before she came to earth. In a series of YouTube videos dubbed ARIA STATION, IA and ONE introduced their home-world known as Planet ARIA. IA has little background information, however she and ONE were given some through the ARIA - IA Musical & Live Show – performances. The design philosophy 1st PLACE worked toward was to make the voice simple and straightforward but easy to adjust and customize, letting creators create their own version of IA. This voicebank would have allowed users to create better English results than using either the Japanese voicebanks for the same purpose.IA is the first vocal of the -ARIA ON THE PLANETES- project. IA's English V4 voicebank was presumed to have been abandoned in favor of IA ENGLISH C on CeVIO. IA ENGLISH C was released for CeVIO Creative Studio on June 29, 2018. On March 28, it was found in the song credits for 'Conqueror' that IA English was programmed for CeVIO. On March 12, Lia later retracted her previous tweet regarding what voice synthesizer IA English was running on, noting that she was unable to announce any further information. On March 11, Lia, IA's voice provider, acknowledged the new voicebank and tagged her post with '#englishvocaloid' which implied that this voicebank was to be developed for VOCALOID. However, it was not clarified what voice synthesizer this voicebank was developed for. Some of the songs featured IA singing in English, confirming the new bank in production. On March 10, 2018, 1st Place revealed a crossfade for an upcoming album called IA/04. They stated that they would only release the speaking voicebank if it was deemed high enough quality and that the engine was not confirmed. However, 1st Place later denied the claims of a CeVIO talk bank. A tweet also mentioned that IA English and a talking CeVIO voicebank were being developed. On July 1, the English voicebank was revealed to be in development through a Weibo comment stack. This was then followed by a question asking if they would try her if there was an English version. And Japanese Anime & Character culture' featured a question asking if the participant had used IA. In late June, a questionnaire titled 'This is a questionnaire about virtual artist, IA. However, they wouldn't release it if they didn't think they were able to deliver high enough quality. During an interview, 1st Place's CEO stated that an English voicebank for IA was something they wanted to try.

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