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Voctro Labs, S.L. is a Barcelona-based audio technology company founded in 2011 that builds AI-based voice, music, and audio technologies for creative companies and individuals. It is best known for two product lines: Voiceful, a toolkit for adding speech and singing voice to digital and mobile experiences, and Vocaloid virtual singers (Bruno, Clara, and MAIKA) for Yamaha's VOCALOID singing synthesizer. If you are a developer, creative agency, content producer, or musician looking for voice interaction, voice personalization, or singing synthesis technology, this company is relevant to you.
What Voctro Labs offers
The company organizes its work into products and services.
Products
Voiceful — a toolkit for designing digital and mobile experiences with speech and singing voice. According to the company, it is aimed at creative agencies, app developers, and content production companies that want voice interaction and personalization in their products. It is delivered as a cloud-based API plus SDK libraries for mobile, tablet, and desktop applications, and is positioned for:
- Games, mobile apps, and IoT devices
- iOS, Android, Unity, Windows, OSX, and Linux
Vocaloid Singers — Bruno, Clara, and MAIKA are virtual singers for Yamaha's VOCALOID software, a singing voice synthesizer commercialized by Yamaha since 2003. The company notes that VOCALOID resulted from joint research between Yamaha's R&D division in Japan and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, carried out by Voctro Labs' co-founders. These singers target end users as well as amateur and professional musicians, on Windows and OSX.
Services
- Personalized voices — custom synthesis voices created for celebrities and artists
- Algorithms — voice and audio algorithms customized for specific project needs
- Research and innovation — collaboration with industrial and academic partners
Who it is for
| If you are… | Relevant offering |
|---|---|
| An app, game, or IoT developer | Voiceful API and SDKs |
| A creative agency or content producer | Voiceful for voice interaction and personalization |
| A musician or vocalist (amateur or professional) | Vocaloid virtual singers |
| A brand or artist wanting a custom voice | Personalized voice service |
| A research group or company with a specialized audio need | Custom algorithm development and R&D collaboration |
Background and track record
Voctro Labs was founded in 2011 by four audio experts and licenses its technology worldwide from Barcelona. Its clients are creative media companies in music, videogames, apps, advertising, and film. The team cites 15+ years of applied research experience at MTG-UPF and collaboration with companies such as Yamaha Corp. (Japan), with public funding from the European Commission's FP7 and H2020 programs. The co-founders are inventors on more than fifty patents and co-authors of over a hundred scientific publications.
Named success stories listed by the company include work across advertising, apps, events, music, games, and services — for example Ballantine's Plan B (2012–2013), Chantr (2015), Take7 (2014), the Vocaloid Virtual Singers (2011–2014), Ona Virtual Live (2013), Hyundai Brilliant (2013), DJ Voxchanger (2015), Ditty for Messenger (2015), Mursion VR (2017), Soundtrap (2017), and Beeping (2015–2017).
What to check before contacting them
- Pricing and licensing terms are not published on the page reviewed here, so treat cost and access conditions as something to confirm directly with the company rather than assuming free or open availability.
- Platform fit — confirm that Voiceful's supported targets (iOS, Android, Unity, Windows, OSX, Linux) match your project before planning integration.
- Use case fit — decide whether you need a general voice toolkit (Voiceful), a ready-made virtual singer (Vocaloid Singers), or a bespoke voice/algorithm engagement (services), since these are distinct offerings with different audiences.