Josephine Cobra

Josephine Cobra (Japanese:ジョゼフィン·コブラ)
NAME INTERPRETATION: Josephine comes from the voicer's middle name (Giuseppina), Cobra is simply the overall theme of her character design.
TYPE: AGA-loid MODEL: AGA-κ (kappa)
GENDER	Female	VOICE RANGE	F3-E5 (might go much lower or higher depending on flags or engine)	RELATED CHARACTERS	Arianna Leone (Fellow AGA-loid)
AGE	unknown	GENRE	Anything that fits	HOMEPAGE	Blog
WEIGHT	unknown	CHARACTER ITEM	N/A	CREATOR	Catgirl/nekomukuro
HEIGHT	175 cm	VOICE SOURCE	Catgirl/nekomukuro	PICTURE LINK LIST	N/A
BIRTHDAY	unknown	LIKES	Snakes, especially cobras, embarrassing people, being complimented	MEDIA LIST	Author's SoundCloud
RELEASE DATE	Yet to be decided	DISLIKES	Cigarettes and people who smoke in her presence	SIGNATURE SONG	N/A
PERSONALITY: [Personality is optional and can be disregarded for her usage] Josephine can be described as a chaotic neutral person, with some troll-ish streaks. She's astute, manipulative and a skilled liar, and uses all those abilities to get what she wants, not caring about putting people into trouble. However, she's not really bad, and will usually try not to put anyone in more trouble than they can handle (just enough for her to have fun about it). She flirts with anyone regardless of gender but she's usually not serious about it. She loves snakes and she keeps many as pets, calling them her "babies". She can talk to them, and apparently they understand her and she seems to be able to summon them wherever she is.

Supplemental Information

Hair: long and green
Eye color: golden, with reddish vertical pupil.
Earphones: she wears a golden headset. Her long ears prevent her to wear regular earphones as they would be uncomfortable.
Dress: she uses an elegant dress with green, white and gold as main colors. She uses shoes with high heels. See Design section.
Nationality/Race: Unknown, and given her ears and eyes, it is clearly not human.
Other traits: She usually wears purple or dark pink lipstick and eye shade.

Character Design

The character design is work in progress. An unfinished version can be seen here.

Voice Configuration

Josephine has a full VCV-only voicebank, recorded on Namine Ritsu's reclist. She has a mature, strong and aggressive voice.

The voicebank is hiragana encoded.

Currently the voicebank hasn't been released, but you can listen to several demos on the author's SoundCloud page.

Development

Josephine currently supports only Japanese and there are no immediate plans of adding more languages, although the idea of adding support for the Italian language in the future is being considered.

Usage Clause

Josephine’s voicebank is available free of charge under the following conditions

1. You comply with UTAU Usage Policy (duh).
2. Commercial usage without prior permission is forbidden
3. Redistribution of the voicebank is allowed in case the official distribution link is down. Custom oto.inis can be shared and redistributed with no restrictions
4. Religious expression is allowed as long as the product doesn’t contain offense to other faiths (which should be already included in 1, anyway)
5. Political expression is forbidden
6. Sexual expression is allowed up to a point: explicit sexual content is forbidden, innuendos or slightly risque lyrics are ok. If in doubt, ask the author for permission
7. Violence is discouraged, but not strictly forbidden. Don’t go too much overboard and be sure to put appropriate warnings. Regarding this, asking the author for permission is appreciated
8. Don’t use it for any illegal or harmful purpose, and you’re ok. :)
9. You are allowed to depict the character as long as it doesn’t contain explicit sexual content (hentai), political views, or anything offensive.
10. You are free to use any illustration of Josephine available on the website only for videoclips of songs/hanasu where her voicebank is used, as long as you credit the source and/or the author (by the name Catgirl or nekomukuro).

For any other usage, requesting permission is appreciated. Contact info on the blog or in the readme file inside the voice bank zip.

Technical Information

JOSEPHINE COBRA V1.0alpha
ARCHIVE FILENAME	not yet available	ARCHIVE FILESIZE	not yet available	DATE RELEASED	not yet available
NO. OF VOICE PHONEMES	211	TOTAL UNCOMPRESSED SIZE	82,272,218 bytes	PHONEME ENCODING	Hiragana
AVERAGE FREQUENCY	262,7Hz (C4)	FRQ FILE PRESENCE	YES	LANGUAGES SUPPORTED	Japanese
UNOFFICIAL SUPPORTED LANGUAGES	UNKNOWN	OTO.INI PRESENCE	YES	TUNED OTO.INI	YES
LANGUAGE PARSED VIA OTO.INI	?	VOICEBANK AUTHOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)
RECORDING SOFTWARE USED	OREMO
DOWNLOAD LINK: not yet available
SPECIAL NOTES: She works generally better with tempo rates higher than 120 and using fresamp with a F1 flag or TIPS. Her volume isn't very stable so she requires good compression during mixing.

This article is written and certified true and correct by the author of the character. The details seen here may be subject to change without prior notice.