UTAU wiki

Welcome to  The wiki about UTAU, UTAUloids and creating synthesized singing that anyone can edit

Currently with articles and growing!

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Should you have any questions, complaints, or need assistance, ask the administrators; Orochi Herman, and our in-house Japanese consultant, Damesukekun.

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 * Browse for UTAU voicebanks aka. UTAUloids
 * By First Name (Also single-named characters, regardless of status)
 * By Family Name (Regardless of status)
 * By Japanese Name (Regardless of status)
 * By UTAUloid character type: Regular Voicebank, Derived Voicebank, Subspecies, Fanmade.
 * By Language Capability: Single, Bilingual, Multilingual (Regardless of status)
 * By Voice Capability: Diphonic, Triphonic, IPA
 * By Brand
 * By Country of Origin
 * Upcoming UTAUloids (general page)
 * By Voice Type: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Contralto, Alto, Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Treble, Sopranino.
 * By Voicebank Encoding: Katakana or Hiragana, Romaji or English Alphabet or Both.


 * Section title
 * UTAU in English! - Click here for link and instructions!
 * UTAUloids - Now with tons of new entries for Single Language UTAUloids!
 * WIP UTAUloids - Upcoming new voicebanks! Now sorted by activity! Categorize yours now!
 * Fanmade UTAUloids - Fanmade characters from existing voicebanks!
 * Collective UTAUloids - Groups that have been making voicebanks!
 * Fail UTAUloids - Look out! Could yours be possibly a FAIL UTAUloid?!


 * Section title
 * UTAUloid Subspecies - Genderbent and alternate versions of UTAUloids created by the same voicebank author!
 * Private UTAUloids - UTAUloids kept to themselves...
 * Deceased UTAUloids - MIA, retired, dead or abandoned voicebanks...
 * Pageless UTAUloids - UTAUloids who need their own page; a must look for contributors.
 * Blacklisted UTAUloids - Do not emulate these voicebanks, they can't follow rules!


 * UTAU Operation Tutorial
 * Introduction to UTAU
 * UTAU orientation for western and English users.
 * A quick orientation to the Japanese language and culture.
 * Community and Usage Guidelines and Rules
 * Preparing your system to run UTAU.
 * Downloading and installing UTAU.
 * Making sure your UTAU installation works.
 * Choosing and downloading UTAU voicebanks.
 * Decompressing voicebanks.
 * Installing UTAU voicebanks.
 * Converting UTAU voicebanks from Kana to Romaji.
 * UTAU full User Manual, translated from Japanese
 * The Essential UTAU Toolkit


 * Tutorial for creating vocals using UTAU.
 * A guide to UTAU's GUI.
 * Making your first vocals using Defoko.
 * Tweaking and editing UST files.
 * Exporting vocals to WAV file format.
 * Importing from a VSQ file.
 * Importing from a MIDI file.
 * Exporting a UST file to VSQ or MIDI.
 * Voicebank syntax troubleshooting.


 * Creating your own UTAUloid.
 * Introduction to creating UTAU voicebanks.
 * Languages, syntaxes and language priority.
 * Naming your UTAUloid and creating character profiles.
 * A balance between aesthetics and visualization of voice.
 * Preparation for recording.
 * Recording list of syllables.
 * The actual recording.
 * Post-recording tweaking.
 * Kana vs Romaji Recording
 * oto.ini tweaking.
 * Testdriving your own created voicebank.
 * Finalization, publication and promotion.


 * Advanced and expert UTAU usage topics.
 * Forced Multilinguality
 * Automatic Language Compatibility.
 * Promotions of western voicebanks to Nico Nico Douga.
 * Making an existing voicebank understand both Romaji and Kana. Go to Alias Encoding for a tutorial.
 * Voicebank troubleshooting.
 * Voicebank optimization.
 * What to do with badly-recorded voicebanks and what can be done.
 * When re-recording badly-recorded voicebanks is not an option...
 * Protecting your voicebanks from plagiarism.
 * Voicebank Diphones.
 * Voicebank Triphones/VCV.

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 * To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below.
 * Visit these categories to find out what articles may need their pages standardized or cleaned up: Category:Profile pages requiring upgrade, Category:Profile pages needing cleanup


 * Not sure where to start?
 * Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
 * If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial, and see Help:Contents.
 * Check out Help:Starting this wiki if you're setting up the wiki.


 * Adding content
 * Every wiki has two list of articles that need help called "Stubs" and "Wanted Articles". Don't be shy, get in there.
 * Uploading images is another really easy way to help out - see the Special:Upload page!
 * You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on the templates project page.


 * Talk and more...
 * Check out the community portal to see what the community is working on, to give feedback or just to say hi.
 * Or head on over to the forums and coordinate with the community on editing, projects, and more.

