Help:Linux UTAU Conversion Tool (LUCT)

Linux Essential UTAU Tools
There are a number of programs that are useful (and often neccesary) to be able to use UTAU in an effective manner. I am gathering a list here, both tools I have written and those written by others. I am only listing free programs here. It is assumed you have a basic familiarity with Linux and the command line, there are many tutorials on how to use it and a quick google will get you answers you need.

1. Wine and/or Playonlinux
An absolute must to use UTAU on Linux. It allows for installation of Windows .exe programs within Linux. You can easily install it on Ubuntu with: sudo apt-get install playonlinux Playonlinux is a graphical front-end for wine, and can be used to manage multiple wine versions of wine for testing and/or compatablity reasons; sometimes a windows program will only work on a certain version of wine. UTAU 2.77 works fine (with a few hitches) on wine 1.4.1, and 1.5 also. I personaly never have used playonlinux with UTAU, but some find it usefull.

2. UTAU 2.77
This is the only version that is known to work well within wine. If a better version should come out that plays well with wine I will definitly update this page. The only hitch is if you play the sample in the oto.ini editor it hangs the program and you need to restart to regain functionality

3. 7-zip
Needed to unzip Japanese voicebanks properly, as far as I can tell you must install it into wine and run it in Japanese in order for it to work. Also, using 7-zip to compress your voicebanks in a .7z or .rar format preserves the character encoding, allowing others to unzip your bank without hassle. An excellent compression tool for both Linux and Windows.

4. Linux UTAU Conversion Tool
A tool of my own design, analogous to ... on Windows, allows you to convert .ust between hiragana and romaji, add romaji aliases to a hiragana bank, and add hiragana aliases to a romaji bank. Its usage is explained in detail in the included readme, but it runs via the command line using numeric options to choose what action to perform. It is currently undergoing updates, but once it is done (30 min or so) I will upload the link ^_^