Reclist Directory

This is an article with various reclists for different languages. Most reclists can be found on this compilation.

Japanese[]

Japanese is the most popular UTAU language, since the original program was developed to produce synthesis in this language.

Pronunciation Guide[]

(YouTube) "Japanese pronunciation" by daiquirikiss

UTAU Language Resources for Japanese

Wasteland UTAU Japanese Overview

CV[]

CV is the easiest recording method for Japanese. It consists of recording every Japanese syllable individually (or the most frequent ones). It was the first method used for UTAU, due to Uta Utane being made in CV. The Voicebank size ends up being small, but sounds choppy.

"ありがと" (arigato) is aliased in CV as [a] [ri] [ga] [to].

Reclists[]

CV Japanese Reclist by GrayOblivion : Reclist with most sounds and extras.

UTAU Language Resources for Japanese : Has a reclist made by MimiroboP with a Romaji transliteration by HaloHeroine.

Wasteland UTAU Japanese CV : Has four CV reclists: Minimum, Standard, Extras and Rentan.

VCV[]

VCV allows a more smooth transition between notes than CV, as every sample takes into account the vowel of the previous note. It also takes into account if the previous or next note is a silence. VCV reclists are measured by mora, which is the amount of syllables or notes there are per line.

"おはよ" (ohayo) is aliased in VCV as [- o] [o ha] [a yo] [o -].

Reclists[]

UTAU Language Resources for Japanese : Has a 5-mora VCV reclist by Loke (in hiragana), and an 8 mora and 6 mora reclist by an unknown user. Also has the dead link of Ameya's 7-mora VCV reclist.

Wasteland UTAU Japanese VCV : Has four VCV reclists: Efficiency VCV, Extras, 5-mora and 7-mora. The Efficiency VCV was especially built to "maximize efficiency and minimize redundancy".

CVVC[]

CVVC has a smooth transition between notes differently from VCV. CVVC works like a CV but makes transitions with the ending of a previous note to the beginning of another one. Some Voicebanks record the silence of a CV syllable (ending up as [- CV]) but others only record the beginning of the consonant (ending up as [- C][CV]).

"やさい" (yasai) is aliased in CV as [ya] [sa] [i].

"やさい" (yasai) is aliased in CVVC as [- y] [ya] [a s] [sa] [a i] [i] [i -].

"やさい" (yasai) can also be aliased in CVVC as [- ya] [a s] [sa] [a i] [i] [i -].

Reclists[]

Wasteland UTAU Japanese CVVC : Has four CVVC reclists: 8-Mora, 8-Mora Extras, 2-Mora and 2-Mora Extras.

English[]

VCCV English[]

VCCV English is a method created by PaintedCz in 2015. It is the successor to their previous English method. The method was made for American English. Voicebank creation have been fully explained by its creator in their tutorials since the release of the first VCCV English Voicebank, CZLoid. The aliasing method is sometimes refered to as C-ZAMPA (a blend between CZ and X-SAMPA). A transcribed version by Yin-P of the tutorial also exists.

"Melody" may be aliased in VCCV English as [-me] [e l] [lu] [u d] [dE] [E-].

"Strengths" may be aliased in VCCV English as [-str] [_re] [eng-] [ng k] [kx] [ths-].

Tutorial Series : YouTube Link

Transcribed Version: DeviantArt Link

CVVC English[]

CVVC English is an obsolete method predecessor to VCCV English created by PaintedCz (formerly known as ChezzieChan) which came in two versions: full and lite. The full version covered enough to make the bank sing English with more ease. While the lite list only covered the basic consonants, vowels, and vowel-consonants. Due to the creation of VCCV English, only archives of the reclist remain. The full (stringed) reclist, full (unstringed) reclist and lite reclist.

ARPAsing[]

ARPAsing is a "systematic method for English-language vocals in UTAU" made by Kanru Hua. It is based of ARPABET and the CMU Dictionary.^[1] ARPAsing otoing is based on diphones, which means that each oto line contains only two phonemes and therefore, every lyric is made with the transition of 2 phonemes (as shown in the aliasing example). It is used more often due to Moresampler having auto OTOer compatibility with ARPAsing.

"Melody" (m_eh_l_ah_d_iy) may be aliased in ARPAsing as [- m] [m eh] [eh l] [l ah] [ah d] [d iy] [iy -].

"Strengths" (s_t_r_eh_ng_k_th_s) may be aliased in ARPAsing as [- s] [s t] [t r] [r eh] [eh ng] [ng k] [k th] [th s] [s -].

ARPAsing Home Page

Moresampler Auto OTOer[]

Moresampler otoes voicebanks based off given phonemes. These are inputted in Arpabet (lower case, separated by an underscore) and then are used to approximate the oto with the corresponding wav file, separating the phonemes by the transitions between them (for example: k_ah_m gets otoed as [- k], [k ah], [ah m], [m -]). If a file is named differently to its Arpabet transcription, it can be given with an index.csv file, which links the wav files to their Arpabet phonemes. Due to this, premade recordings can also be used for a voicebank.

Reclist Writing[]

ARPAsing is not a single, static reclist, but a method of English UTAU. Similar to how VCV isn't a single reclist, but a method of Japanese UTAU.^[2] ARPAsing reclists can be composed by just phonemes, words, or both. Optimal reclists try to aim towards minimum redundancy, trying to make as many unique diphone combinations per line as possible.

ARPAsing Reclist Directory

DELTA English[]

DELTA English is one of the older English reclists encoded in X-SAMPA, most notable for being the reclist Teto Kasane's English voicebank used. Since it was created for Japanese speakers it's missing some phonemes and has very little resources available in English, but it remains one of the most popular ways to create an English voicebank, especially overseas. There are seven DELTA reclists, with 1 being the longest and 7 being the shortest. It's somewhat similar to S-CVVC. An English translation and guide of the reclist made by KLAD exists.

"Melody" may be aliased in DELTA English as [- mE] [E l] [lV] [V d] [di] [i -].

"Strengths" may be aliased in DELTA English as [-str] [rE] [E N] [N] [k] [T] [s].

Sango312 CVVC English[]

Sango312's CVVC English is a reclist that was made in 2014 created by Sango312. The reclist is designed as recording CV samples and singular VC samples.

Sango312's CVVC MediaFire Download

VCV-E[]

VCV-E is a reclist that was made by Yin-P. It's a VCV Multilingual Reclist that supports Japanese, English, Tagalog, and Spanish. It's the VCV version of the existing CV-C reclist. It contains over 1800 samples and 11000 oto lines.

CVC English[]

CVC English is a method which was popular in the early 2010s. Syo's CVC method uses X-SAMPA and is recorded similar to CV, with VC endings recorded separately. The reclist and its beta are fully available.

CV English[]

CV English is an English method where reclists are made according to what users think they might need, making it time-consuming. This was a method of English before CVVC was invented in the middle of 2010. The reclist is Japanese reclist with a few new vowels like "ih", "ah", "uh" and "er".

C+V English[]

C+V English is a recording method where the consonants and vowels are recorded separately. This method got a resurgence of usage with Biggity Boy's ARPAsing C+V reclist. The guide and resource hub is also available.

GrayGlish[]

GrayGlish is a CVVC English Reclist which uses X-SAMPA encoding. It has been shared in a download package.

Spanish[]

Spanish is another popular language in UTAU. The oldest videos that used Spanish date back to mid 2009. The most updated reclist is nJokis VCCV, which was made in collaboration in 2019 for an easy to record sentence-based reclist.

Pronunciation Guide[]

UTAU Language Resources for Spanish

(YouTube) nJokis Tutorial by The Soda Wave (in Spanish)

nJokis VCCV[]

nJokis (ñoquis) is a VCCV Spanish reclist made by text_to_death in 2019, with a corresponding plugin (AutoVCCV_nJokis) developed by Teren000 in 2020. It's composed mostly of phrases and words in Spanish, which allows for a more organic pronunciation, faster creation and overall better recording efficiency.^[3] It allows for some dialectal variation since the reclist has a special "jj" phoneme that corresponds to the sound of a "ll", which may be a /ʝ/, a /ʎ/ or a /ʃ/. nJokis also has another version for Castilian Spanish, "nJokis con pez", which differenciates for "s" from "z/c". It's the combination of various Spanish reclists into one final sentence-based reclist. Full documentation is available with an English translation too.

nJokis Reclist Page

nJokis Reclist Page in English

text_to_death VCCV[]

Text_to_death's VCCV is the direct predecessor of nJokis, being made in 2017. It also shares a lot of sound aliasing with nJokis.

Text_to_death's VCCV reclist release video

Teren000 CVVC[]

Teren000's CVVC is a reclist made by Teren000 in 2014. It's an older predecessor to nJokis.

Teren000's CVVC + VCV Mega Download

Teren's CVVC Spanish Tutorial

Teren000 VCV + VC[]

Teren000's VCV + VC is a reclist made by Teren000 at around the same time that Teren's CVVC was released.

Teren000's CVVC + VCV Mega Download

nJoki-S VCCV (in Syllables)[]

nJoki-S VCCV (in Syllables) is a modification of nJokis created by Felix.v.u, designed to be as short as possible without losing anything necessary (taking into account that it is made up of syllables). It has a base oto adapted to the list. Both dialects of Spanish are included, Castilian and Latin American. Note: permission has been granted by Text_to_death to distribute this reclist.