Arianna Leone

ARIANNA LEONE (Japanese:アリアンナ・レオネ)
NAME INTERPRETATION: Arianna is a wordplay on the author's real name and the word "aria" Leone means "lion" in Italian and has been chosen due to her hair and as a wordplay on the typical -ne endings of UTAU names Disclaimer: As both first and last name are quite common in Italy, it must be remarked that there's no connection to any person who shares this name or a similar one and any case of homonymy is completely coincidental.
TYPE: AGA-loid - (AGA comes from the voicer's surname) MODEL: AGA-α (alpha, sometimes appears on the display on her belt)
GENDER	Female	VOICE RANGE	C4-B5 (Might need a bit of work under C4, as her A's sometimes distort)	RELATED CHARACTERS	Rosario Leone (Genderbend/younger brother) Josephine Cobra (Fellow AGA-loid, belligerant friendship)
AGE	23	GENRE	UNKNOWN	HOMEPAGE	Blog
WEIGHT	It's a secret	CHARACTER ITEM	UNKNOWN	CREATOR	Catgirl (aka nekomukuro)
HEIGHT	5'5" feet (165 cm)	VOICE SOURCE	Catgirl (aka nekomukuro)	PICTURE LINK LIST	PIXIV, DEVIANT ART,GOOGLE IMAGE
BIRTHDAY	Aug. 10th (It's when her author thought her first name up)	LIKES	Speck ham, slacking, silly humor, UFOs, Linux	MEDIA LIST	NICO NICO DOUGA, YOUTUBE, SOUNDCLOUD
RELEASE DATE	February 17, 2011	DISLIKES	Haste, being under pressure, Windows virtual machines (She hates Windows VMs because she has been oto'd and tested on one, and its slowness is really unpleasant)	SIGNATURE SONG	NONE
PERSONALITY: [Personality is optional and can be disregarded for her usage] Arianna is mostly a laid back person, with her head often in the clouds. Usually, she is friendly and helpful, likes funny things and laughs pretty easily at jokes. She is actually a tsundere, though, but her “tsun-tsun” side is hard to trigger due to her being lazy. Most times, she'll express her disappointment with sighs and looks of disapproval, but she can have scary outbursts if you’re persistent enough to cross her patience limits. She also tends to flip and go berserk when people put too much pressure on her. Despite that, she's unable to hold grudges, and after her brief outbursts, she'll swing back to normal like nothing happened. She’s geeky and likes conspiracy theories and UFOs. Since she has been recorded on an Arch Linux system, she regards Linux as her true home.

Supplemental Information

Hair color: orange

Eye color: blue
Earphones: black with pink lights
Dress/Outfit: her color scheme is lightblue and white, with square-wave patterns. Has a pink waveform display and some controls on her belt.
Nationality/Race: Italian
Quote: “I should really be mad, but it’s tiring, so I forgive you.”

Genderbending

The genderbent version of Arianna is named Rosario (ローザリオ) and is obtained through g+10 or g+15 flag in the C3 octave. For some reason UTAU hates some of the samples when they're used in the lower range, and sometimes even Rosario is affected, regardless of the genderfactor, and might require some tweaking (such as equalizing). M4 engine is the one that works better in that regard. Fresamp11 can also help him sounding better using of a F0 or negative flag and increasing high frequencies through equalizing during mixing. This last approach has the best results, usually.

Development

Additional sounds for Italian support have been released in beta. The additional sounds will be romaji encoded. You can hear demos on http://goo.gl/fOmmT. This voicebank probably won't go past beta stage.

Japanese VCVs have been recorded and are currently being oto'ed. They have Japanese filenames and japanese aliases. You can hear a demo here goo.gl/ybFKb.

Soft Append has been canceled and completely replaced by the VCV (which has softer quality than the CV bank).

More demos can be found on the author's Soundcloud page.

A V2.0 bank has been recorded and is currently being tested and configured. The new bank has more uniform recordings, albeit a bit less bright. It is romaji-encoded and will support officially Italian, Latin and Japanese languages, although Japanese will be heavily Italian accented (probably more than V1.2 already is, as the strength of trilled r's has been increased a little in order to improve comprehensibility of Italian). The new bank will be bi-pitch, with one main bank in E4 (Same tone as V1.x) and a lower pitch bank in C4 to make up for the distortion that always affects Arianna in the lower range. The bank will also include VC samples, and on the other hand it will contain less CCV than V1.2beta and no CCCVs at all. This will grant more flexibility and smoother singing of both Latin and Italian.

Usage Clause

Arianna’s voicebank is available free of charge under the following conditions

1. You comply with UTAU Usage Policy (duh).
2. Commercial usage without prior permission is forbidden
3. Redistribution of the voicebank is allowed in case the official distribution link is down. Custom oto.inis can be shared and redistributed with no restrictions
4. Religious expression is allowed as long as the product doesn’t contain offense to other faiths (which should be already included in 1, anyway)
5. Political expression is forbidden
6. Sexual expression is allowed up to a point: explicit sexual content expressed in a vulgar and tasteless fashion is forbidden, innuendos or risque lyrics are ok. If in doubt, ask the author for permission
7. Violence is discouraged, but not strictly forbidden. Don’t go too much overboard and be sure to put appropriate warnings. Regarding this, asking the author for permission is appreciated
8. Don’t use it for any illegal or harmful purpose, and you’re ok. :)
9. You are allowed to depict the characters of Arianna and Rosario in fanart, as long as it doesn’t contain explicit sexual content (hentai), political views, or anything offensive.
10. You are free to use any illustration of Arianna (and Rosario) available on her website only for videoclips of songs/hanasu where her voicebank is used, as long as you credit the source and/or the author (by the name Catgirl or nekomukuro).

For any other usage, requesting permission is appreciated. Contact info on the blog or in the readme file inside the voice bank zip.

Technical Information

ARIANNA LEONE V1.0
ARCHIVE FILENAME	Arianna-V1.0.zip	ARCHIVE FILESIZE	23MB	DATE RELEASED	not yet available
NO. OF VOICE PHONEMES	211	TOTAL UNCOMPRESSED SIZE	24,5MiB	PHONEME ENCODING	Hiragana
AVERAGE FREQUENCY	326 Hz (E4)	FRQ FILE PRESENCE	YES	LANGUAGES SUPPORTED	Japanese
UNOFFICIAL SUPPORTED LANGUAGES	UNKNOWN	OTO.INI PRESENCE	YES	TUNED OTO.INI	YES
LANGUAGE PARSED VIA OTO.INI	?	VOICEBANK AUTHOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)
RECORDING SOFTWARE USED	OREMO
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32321210/Arianna-V1.0.zip
SPECIAL NOTES: I would advise you to use the 1.2beta instead.

ARIANNA LEONE V1.2beta
ARCHIVE FILENAME	Arianna-1.2-b3.rar	ARCHIVE FILESIZE	46,7MB	DATE RELEASED	December 16, 2011
NO. OF VOICE PHONEMES	474	TOTAL UNCOMPRESSED SIZE	67,9MiB	PHONEME ENCODING	Mixed Hiragana/Romaji
AVERAGE FREQUENCY	326 Hz (E4)	FRQ FILE PRESENCE	YES	LANGUAGES SUPPORTED	Japanese and Italian
UNOFFICIAL SUPPORTED LANGUAGES	Latin (needs tweaking)	OTO.INI PRESENCE	YES	TUNED OTO.INI	YES
LANGUAGE PARSED VIA OTO.INI	?	VOICEBANK AUTHOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)
RECORDING SOFTWARE USED	OREMO
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://goo.gl/SLSpP
SPECIAL NOTES: This voicebank is a prototype for Italian support and adds additional phonemes to the V1.0 bank. There is also a phoneme and frq fixes and improvements in the oto compared to the V1.0. In regards of Italian support, the current prototype lacks some useful phonemes and uses a pretty inefficient approach by using CCCVs instead of VCs, but it's enough to produce a pretty clear Italian. This beta might never be released as stable, and will be replaced by 2.0 version.

ARIANNA LEONE Soft VCV 1.0beta
ARCHIVE FILENAME	not yet available	ARCHIVE FILESIZE	not yet available	DATE RELEASED	not yet available
NO. OF VOICE PHONEMES	192	TOTAL UNCOMPRESSED SIZE	87,209,448 bytes	PHONEME ENCODING	Hiragana
AVERAGE FREQUENCY	324.8 Hz (E4)	FRQ FILE PRESENCE	YES	LANGUAGES SUPPORTED	Japanese
UNOFFICIAL SUPPORTED LANGUAGES	UNKNOWN	OTO.INI PRESENCE	YES	TUNED OTO.INI	YES
LANGUAGE PARSED VIA OTO.INI	Japanese	VOICEBANK AUTHOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)
RECORDING SOFTWARE USED	OREMO
DOWNLOAD LINK: not yet available
SPECIAL NOTES: The triphonic voicebank is currently being configured. It is a standalone VCV voicebank recorded on Sorane Rana's reclist (but lacks the hanamogera strings). Has a softer tone in comparison to the CVs.

ARIANNA LEONE V2.0alpha
ARCHIVE FILENAME	N/A yet	ARCHIVE FILESIZE	To be determined	DATE RELEASED	not yet available
NO. OF VOICE PHONEMES	currently about 1000	TOTAL UNCOMPRESSED SIZE	To be determined	PHONEME ENCODING	Romaji
AVERAGE FREQUENCY	(no suffix) E4 (↓) C4	FRQ FILE PRESENCE	YES	LANGUAGES SUPPORTED	Italian, Latin, Japanese
UNOFFICIAL SUPPORTED LANGUAGES	UNKNOWN	OTO.INI PRESENCE	YES	TUNED OTO.INI	YES
LANGUAGE PARSED VIA OTO.INI	Japanese (romaji+hiragana) Italian/Latin (phonetically encoded in romaji-like fashion)	PREFIX.MAP PRESENCE	YES	NUMBER OF PITCH SHIFTS	2
VOICEBANK AUTHOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	TECHNICAL DIRECTOR	Catgirl (nekomukuro)	RECORDING SOFTWARE USED	OREMO
DOWNLOAD LINK: not yet available
SPECIAL NOTES:

Additional Notes

If you ever upload something with her on YouTube, PLEASE use the tag "UTAUArianna". Arianna and Leone are too common names and words and will bring up a lot of unrelated videos so don't use them in the tags. Thanks.

This article is written and certified true and correct by the author of the character. The details seen here may be subject to change without prior notice.