AH-Software

AHS Co., Ltd.
株式会社 AHS

Type	Public KK (unlisted)
Industry	Software, hardware, digital content, IT solutions
Founded	August 22, 2005 [1]
Headquarters	Waseda Bldg. 6F, 7-7-7 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0005 Japan [1]
Area served	Japan
Key people	Tomohide Ogata, President & CEO [1]
Products	List
Services	Online shopping
Number of employees	13 (as of March 2010) [1]
Website	Official website

AH-Software is the software brand of AHS Co., Ltd., an importer of digital audio workstations and encoders in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known as the developer of Voiceroid and a number of Vocaloid voicebanks.

Products and services

Vocaloid products

AHS released their first Vocaloids on December 4, 2009, named SF-A2 Miki, Kaai Yuki, and Hiyama Kiyoteru. Kaai Yuki became the first Vocaloid to use a child's voice. AHS also published a Hello Kitty-based Vocaloid, "Nekomura Iroha", based on the Kittyler featured in the game Hello Kitty to Issho! Block Crash 123!! in cooperation with Sanrio. AHS are also heading the first project led by producers working with the software.^[2]

Vocaloid2 products

Product	Language	Sex	Voice sampled	Release date
SF-A2 Miki[3]	Japanese	Female	Furukawa, MikiMiki Furukawa	December 4, 2009
Kaai Yuki[4]	Japanese	Female	Unknown	December 4, 2009
Hiyama Kiyoteru	Japanese	Male	Kiyoshi Hiyama	December 4, 2009
Nekomura Iroha[5][6][7]	Japanese	Female	Unknown	October 22, 2010

Vocaloid3 products

Product	Language	Sex	Voice sampled	Release date
Yuzuki Yukari[2]	Japanese	Female	Chihiro Ishiguro	December 22, 2011
Tohoko Zunko[8][9]	Japanese	Female	Satomi Satō	June 5, 2014

Vocaloid4 products

Product	Language	Sex	Voice sampled	Release date
Yuzuki Yukari V4	Japanese	Female	Chihiro Ishiguro	March 18, 2015
Nekomura Iroha V4	Japanese	Female	Kyounosuke Yoshitate	June 18, 2015
SF-A2 miki V4	Japanese	Female	Miki Furukawa	June 18, 2015
Kaai Yuki V4	Japanese	Female	Unknown	October 29, 2015
Hiyama Kiyoteru V4	Japanese	Male	Kiyoshi Hiyama	October 29, 2015

Speech synthesis

• Voiceroid
  • Tsukuyomi Shouta; based on a seven-year-old male.
  • Tsukuyomi Ai; based on a five-year-old female.
  • Yoshida-Kun; based on the character from Eagle Talon.^[10]
  • Tsurumaki Maki; a teenage female musician voiced by Tomoe Tamiyasu.^[11][12]
  • Tohoku Zunko; a teenage female created to promote the recovery of the Tohoku region. She was released as a Vocaloid on June 5, 2014.^[13]
  • Kotonoha Akane・Aoi; two females that are a pair of sisters.

Sound editing and recording

• Crazy Talk SE.^[14]
• Jam Band

References

1. "Corporate Profile". AHS Co., Ltd. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
2. "出た!「ボカロPによるボカロPのためのボカロ制作」プロジェクトが始動!" [It's Appeared! The Start of the "Vocaloid Work for Vocaloid P Due to Vocaloid P" Project] (in Japanese). Hatsune Miku Miku. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
3. "SF-A2 開発コード miki" [SF-A2 Development Code miki]. AH-Software. Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
4. "ボカロ小学生 歌愛ユキ" [Vocaloid Elementary School Student Kaai Yuki]. AH-Software. Archived from the original on 8 July 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2010.
5. "Yamaha's Twitter page" (in Japanese). Twitter. August 12, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
6. "AH Software's Twitter page" (in Japanese). Twitter. August 13, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
7. "VOCALOID2 猫村いろは" [Vocaloid 2 Nekomura Iroha] (in Japanese). AH Software. Archived from the original on 20 September 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
8. "Yamaha's Twitter page" (in Japanese). Twitter. June 5, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
9. "VOCALOID™3 東北ずん子" [Vocaloid 3 Tohoko Zunko] (in Japanese).
10. Product page
11. link to Maki
12. links
13. "Tohoku Zunko VOICEROID+ Software Gets Release Date". Vocaloidism. August 30, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
14. Gigazine

External links

• Official website
• AHS Store (Japanese)
• AH-Software's channel on YouTube (Japanese)
• AH-Software on Twitter (Japanese)