Terms of Use
The Talking Pals are pretty useful - but PLEASE, read this before you go and mess with them!
First up: the things you CAN do. Make sure you read the entire terms of use.
Use them like any other UTAUloid.
- (If you do use them, there's a chance of our artist Berry asking if you'd like to contact the Webmaster. This is perfectly normal.)
Feel free to draw fanart and make covers.
Mess with their insides!!!!!!!!!! (Voicebank config edits!) (Some have really bad OTOs. Nebula can't say the S in Su.)
Grey Area Stuff!
Commercial use time! If you are a well known vocal synth producer - GO AHEAD! No permission needed! Just notify the one person running this site via email.
But, if you are a large soulless corporation, good luck trying to pay us to use the Talking Pal characters. If you do make very-high-quality plushies (bonus points if you can add sound modules!) and/or high-quality figurines, that's an exception.
Small businesses are exempt from this. As long as anyone making the products aren't problematic.
DO. NOT. I MEAN IT.
Do not redistribute the Talking Pal voicebanks. Instead, link to the Talking Pals page. (If one or all of the Talking Pals do get discontinued, go ahead and put them on archive.org!)
Do not use the voices of the Talking Pals for your own voicebank. If you see someone do this, please notify Sunny at sunny@zipzapproductions.com.
Don't make artificial intelligence (AI) voice clones of the Talking Pals, put their artwork through AI image generators, or make chatbots of the characters. This is theft!
Do NOT use the Talking Pals for negativity of any kind - such as discrimination, hate, and politics (personal or for profit - any and all politics break the terms of use!). Do not let the Talking Pals get political in any way, shape, or form. Thin ice for national anthems.
No fetish art of any of the Talking Pal characters, please. Blobs cannot do that - to learn more, wait for the "Anatomy of a Blob" reading material to come out. Which is never.
No NSFW art of Stella, Marula, Stan, Pam, or Sunny please. (Most of them are too young. The other is based on a real person.)
Blacklist of forbidden users can be found here. If there's a problematic person that needs to be added to the list, please email us.