<<You can be a voice actor? Karaoke JOYSOUND to start new service of voice over experience>>
Tadashi Sudo [Anime! Anime!]
December 1, 2008
All the anime fans might have dreamt of becoming a voice actor once. JOYSOUND will start new Karaoke service “Af-Reco!” on December 9. With this service, the fans can experience the voice over by recording their own voices with the scenes from favorite animation shown on the Karaoke monitor. It is the new content for Karaoke that allows consumers experience voice over for anime easily.
The new service consists of three different parts: first the Karaoke machine shows selected popular scenes from Japanese animation titles on the Karaoke monitor. Then, consumers do voice over the words that are shown, synchronizing with the move of the animation character’s mouth on the monitor.
Right after recording, the voice gets rendered with the animation so that consumers can enjoy the service as if they become voice actors.
The lineup of the animation at first will be a series of six old and new Japanese animation titles, such as MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: Encounters in Space, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED: Owaranai Asu E, FROM THE APENNINES TO THE ANDES, CONAN THE BOY IN FUTURE, TAILS OF THE ABIS, and TAILS OF DESTINY. So, now anyone can be Amuro or Marco!
-Related site
Af-Reco!
http://joysound.com/ex/st/karaoke/afrec/index.htm