UTAU wiki

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

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What's new on UTAU wiki

November 1, 2009

UPDATES:

1. Propped up page of Ted Kasane, to be the model page for all Fanmade UTAUloid profile page.
2. Siena Kotone has been updated with official support for English and Spanish! This reclassifies her as a Multilingual UTAUloid! Check her out!
3. Amagaku also has been updated and is now at version 2.0

To those who are adding their Fanmade UTAUloids, make sure to follow the reminders on top of the page. Any entries that do not meet the criteria will be removed.

GUI translation of UTAU is being tested before a release can be made. Please note that not all of the GUI aspect of UTAU were translated because some strings were not included in the resource files.

October 26, 2009

Many people have asked for it. Hell even attempts to hack UTAU to give it an English GUI was attempted. Ameya has been abreast about the overseas UTAU scene, and has released UTAU v.0.2.49 with separated language strings!

UTAU wiki is immediately on the case. However, some translations to technical English counterparts are rather troublesome. For this reason, you are invited to help out in the translation of the GUI strings. Some of the strings are already translated, but others are still unverified.

Click here for the resource files. You may edit them and help!

October 25, 2009

UPDATE: Starting with Ritsu, there is an additional technical specification for the voicebank that has been created. To aid users in choosing voicebanks, it is highly recommended to provide this information per character. This table must be generated per voicebank release; deprecated ones (old versions) may be left out, though it is preferable that technical specs for these be created as well.

Onaneko has released the ACT2 version of Wakana Ayane. Go check her out!

October 23, 2009

I've been attempting to fix the weird bug where the WYSIWYG editor adds spaces to profile pages, resulting in unneeded page length expansion. I'm happy to say I have succeeded. The fix is now in effect for some of the pages, and will be propagated over the days. This also resolves the large font clipping bug that happens in IE browsers, and restores the layout as it should appear, with a large name, to emphasize the profile article name. The same fix is now being applied to VOCALOID wiki.

October 19, 2009

UPDATE: I am happy to announce that UTAUloids profile pages have been 100% converted. From now on, all voicebank additions in UTAUloids will now involve the creation of a profile page, a mandatory 100x100 character icon, and download link to the voicebank. Any entries that do not follow the standards will be reverted and removed. The old style character profiles will be allowed for now in Fanmade UTAUloids, Fail UTAUloids and UTAUloid Subspecies.

You probably saw the placeholders below this. We are looking for content authors who are willing to make writeups to serve as a guide in regards to UTAU. Also, the UTAUloids page fixing has progressed with two voicebanks converted to the new format; there is also a new addition in the Bilingual UTAUloids. There will be new additions and categories, as well as a new way of alerting problematic profiles, including those that lack information.

October 18, 2009

UPDATE: Check out Ritsu's profile here for those of you that wants to check out her (or his, for those of you that believe the vippers) voicebank.

UTAU wiki is focusing on the pending voicebank release of Ritsu Namine, the latest character from the vippers, or the mainstays of vip@2ch BBS. As per custom, Ritsu is riddled with ludicrous profile information, like Teto and Ruko has. She's been featured in DTM Magazine in Japan complete with a copy of her voicebank. It is expected that the voicebank will be publicly released as well very soon.

For those who want to know Ritsu, her profile page is already created and filled with information based on those given from her so-called official page.

Old news archives can be viewed here.

Contents   (view all pages)

Section title 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! ... ... ... ...

Special Features, Guides, Walkthroughs and Troubleshooting

UTAU Operation Tutorial Introduction to UTAU UTAU orientation for western and English users. A quick orientation to the Japanese language and culture. 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.

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. The actual recording. Post-recording tweaking. Kana and Romaji parsing-- what should be the main encoding? oto.ini tweaking. Testdriving your own created voicebank. Finalization, publication and promotion.

Advanced and expert UTAU usage topics. Forced multilinguality. Promotions of western voicebanks to Nico Nico Douga. Making an existing voicebank understand both Romaji and Kana. 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.

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