Kasane Ted
Fan site for the red-drilled older brother. Songs, history, and everything Ted.
Who is Ted?
Kasane Ted is the masculine counterpart of the UTAU character Kasane Teto. His voice was made by pitching Teto's original voicebank down, and the community treats him as his own character rather than a simple recolor.
Depending on who you ask, Ted is Teto's older brother, her twin, or her genderswap. Most fan works land on the brother reading, with Ted as the steady one next to Teto's chaos.
Quick facts
- Debut
- 5 October 2008
- Created by
- Sakururi
- Derived from
- Kasane Teto, voiced by Oyamano Mayo, released by Twindrill
- Software
- UTAU (and OpenUtau, which loads the same voicebanks)
- Voice type
- Pitched-down Teto, so a lower male range
- Relation to Teto
- Older brother, twin, or genderswap, depending on the fan work
Where Ted comes from
Teto started as an April Fools' joke on the Japanese textboard 2channel in 2008, a parody of the commercial voice-synth characters of the time. Her traits were picked from board suggestions, she got a real voicebank on 6 April 2008, and the first song using her voice went up that June.
Ted arrived six months later, on 5 October 2008. Because UTAU lets anyone shift a voicebank's pitch, a male Teto was an obvious experiment, and the character stuck around long after the joke did.