#ARPAsing

[utau-bowl]

AIKO UPDATE THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!

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So, since getting rid of Twitter Circles is apparently going to be among the Muskrat's poor decisions, I'm going to start releasing some of my more complete experimental reclists that I've kept exclusively to Twitter Circles.

Starting with this one:

This is a simple phoneme-based ARPAsing list I've made. It's a 3-mora list, and contains only standard ARPAsing phonemes ( + an optional "dx" addon list ) with full diphone coverage.

It has "index" and "no index" variants ( the "index" list is recommended if using moresampler to generate a base, due to sample priority ). While is has no extra phonemes, it is meant to be friendly for non-rhotic accents as well, as there should be enough instances of r-colored vowels to act as contextual duplicates.

In addition, it also comes with comment files that transcribe ARPAsing phonemes to SAMPA(DELTA-style), VOCALOID SAMPA, and VCCV, for those more familiar with other formats.

There is also an IPA Transcript, primarily meant to act as an alternate script for more experienced singers, who may be familiar with IPA, but none of its' adjacent phoneme formats, or SVS in general.

The default list ( without the dx addon ) is 516 samples. However, there is an even shorter ( optional ) reclist for additional pitches as well, that cuts out a lot of sounds that don't change much recorded at other pitches. The idea being the base pitch layer of a voicebank uses the "default" list, and the "additional pitches" list is used for the rest of them. The "additional pitches" list is 345 samples. That said, you can use the default list for all pitches too.

This list is untested, so there may be mistakes. However, it's a fairly simple list, so I don't anticipate any huge errors. That said, please do let me know if you find any.

[dailyenglishvoca]

Today's song is a string of coincidences by Du Du Danyon featuring the UTAU voicebank Hexia

[gretahaffandhawf]

I'm finally starting to get the hang of this. Kudos to cosmicdorito for developing CVVCymraeg!!

[bmpmp3]

english in synthv2 is about turning everything into a diphthong.

[cosmindart]

I just wanted to shill WavSEED's 4 VBs again because I finally made him a wixsite

(I still prefer his Toyhouse page tho XD)

Ecume

Tide

Tsunami

Ripple

[digicherub]

Workin on a new utau... she'll release... idk sometime soon

[novathesillylittleguy]

So like, I’m making an Utau voice bank (I have been obsessed with music making and vocal synths) and I wanted to show their design early because I’m sick af and would die if attempting to make a vb soooo

[rudy-redd]

tuned most of a cover in tunelab then realized no vocal has the power for it, but the .ufdata export is busted so i have to remake the tuning by hand in OpenUTAU to turn this big al cover into an adachi rei cover..

[shiweimigi]

Shoutout - Yours To Devour

Original Song Shoutout featuring a JAE VOCAL PROJECT vocalist!

"Yours To Devour" by frutigerangel featuring Canary, Milk, and Akihana

[skelevision]

mm i wanna keep working on that jinriki bank slash string theocracy cover but ive started making usts by makign a midi first and i just got a plugin that can split notes so thats probably a better method than what i Was doing. but that means redoing all that hard work...... ive only done like 6 lines so far though so i shouldnt be so hung up on overhauling LMAO. there is Much More of the song i should be worried about

actually wait i do have like a few more lines than i did last time i showed this

[vexilanimous]

sorry to add smth in reblogs like a weirdo but

you should check out kikyuune aiko, the accent may not be as pronounced as you're looking for but the voice provider is from tennessee, you can probably make it More South with careful tuning and phoneme use but im not experienced enough with utau english yet to be 100% sure on that

just recording a vb with a thick accent also works, but keep in mind that doing this will send you to the oto trenches, and that place sucks ass

EDIT: ok i also found a vb named "daryl "'murica" jones FREEDOM" but it might not be deep south enough either. somehow

i need to start making music bc im full of so many great ideas. like "donkey kong country breakcore"

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Sooo... some of you might not be aware, but Mine Laru received a new voicebank like a week or two ago ( a whooping 8 pitches, jesus, not even a lot of native voicebanks are that big ), and I have a lot of ( mostly positive ) thoughts on it, along with the new ARPAsing reclist made with it. I wanted to compare it with an older Mine Laru bank in my possession, thus the audio clip above. You can find the new bank here:

Now, some of you might know of the new AgO voicebank, but not know of the 2020 voicebank. Let me explain that one. There’s a bit of a story here.

A couple of years ago, Minato ( Mine Laru’s VP ) set up a website called the “Mine Laru Lab”, and it was to help test out and give feedback for a lot of new voicebanks that were made for various languages that weren’t Japanese. Among them, was a dipitch English ARPAsing voicebank based on the 0.2.0 list.

I offered to configure it in a Twitter comment, and Minato seemed to welcome my help, so I did that as soon as the site went up. After I finished, I DM’d Minato, letting him know I’d finished, and that I had suggestions. I never received a response, and in retrospect, I’m thinking he probably didn’t have his DMs open and I simply never realized. I never followed up though, because I didn’t want to bother him.

Sometime around then, the Mine Laru Lab was shut down, and access to the various voicebanks was seemingly discontinued.

I could be wrong about this, but I think this might be the voicebank that was once called “Mine Laru PRIMITIVE”. I don’t know that for certain, so that’s merely a guess.

So… I’ve basically just had this obscure completed English voicebank sitting around on my computer for the past couple of years. I’m not going to distribute it or anything, unless I get explicit permission to do so. I figure showing it off is probably okay based on what I remember of the Lab TOS, but I will delete this post if Minato asks me to, on the off chance that happens.

Anyways, the AgO voicebank came out recently, and it sounds pretty different from this older bank, so I wanted to make a more direct comparison. The 2020 voicebank is a lot more similar to Mine Laru’s more powerful voicebanks, such as his 14-scales or his “query” voicebank. The AgO voicebank sounds more like his “parse” voicebank, with a more neutral tone becoming softer in higher ranges.

I also want to talk about the reclist, because in my opinion… the AgO reclist is kind of a stroke of genius. It’s such a simple idea that I’m embarrassed I didn’t think of it first. An easy word-based list based mostly on singular words, most of which being easy to pronounce for non-native English speakers. That’s just… sort of brilliant.

And this might be controversial to say, but… it’s leagues better than the 0.2.0 list. The AgO list has just about every CV, VC, and VV diphone you could need for English. There are some exceptions, it’s not 100% complete, and it is missing a lot of CC diphones, but it’s so much more useable than 0.2.0. Reading the blog post on the process of making the list is extremely fascinating too.

I also made an experimental dictionary for AgO to hopefully rectify some of the diphones that are missing. Again, mostly CCs. This dictionary isn’t anywhere near as chaotic as my 0.2.0 dictionary thankfully. Though, there are still some rather obtuse transcriptions I had to use to get around the list’s limitations.

As for the voicebank itself - Mine Laru has always had good English. Even his old “multilingual normal and weak” voicebanks were really good. Mine Laru in English is the kind of voice where he has a notable accent, but in a good way, like how Megurine Luka and Tsurumaki Maki do, where the accent adds charm and personality to the voice instead of making it more difficult to use. The AgO voicebank is no different.

In contrast to the 2020 bank in particular though, having gone through a lot of those old samples, it’s clear that the VP struggled with the 0.2.0 list. Most people do after all, even native speakers. For all its simplicity and compactness, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve gotten a commission to configure a 0.2.0 voicebank, and the voice provider audibly has trouble in the samples - and to be clear, that’s not the voice provider's fault, 0.2.0 is just a bad list ( I’m looking at you “yamk”; that’s not even a word ).

In the AgO voicebank however, the pronunciation is so good. Like, his pronunciation is good to begin with, but with the AgO voicebank, his pronunciation sounds a lot more relaxed and comfortable. And even better, the AgO voicebank actually distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated plosives via alternates. By default, most plosives are unaspirated, but if you cycle through its first alternate ( by typing "1" at the end of the diphone ), you get an aspirated consonant. This is the kind of weirdly specific English voicebank construction that makes me absolutely giddy. Clearly a lot of thought and care was put into this voicebank.

My only real criticism is… the oto.ini. It’s got some problems that can lead to the voicebank being rather choppy. A lot of start-phrase consonants and CC diphones have problems too.

I kinda… want to stick the voicebank in vLabeler and try to refine the oto.ini some. I might do that.

Anyways, I just wanted to dump my thoughts, in case anyone wanted to listen.

[katzenklavierr]

Looking For English Voicebanks For Bad Apple!! Chorus

I'm looking for dedicated English language UTAUs for use in a chorus for an English cover of Bad Apple!! from Touhou Project and potentially future choruses as well. I will be tuning, rendering, and mixing the cover myself. It will be uploaded to my Youtube channel (@ FelineWasteland) and shared on my social media (Tumblr, Bluesky, etc.)

You may submit your own voicebank(s) or any others that you recommend; I'm looking for as many voicebanks as possible. You may also offer me suggestions informally, but I would prefer you to use the form: https://forms.gle/KeGVSCAJuHsNeL7h6

Please submit separate suggestions in separate forms -- this helps me stay organized and know what information goes with what voicebank!

Voicebanks made for specific accents or dialects, voiced by non-native speakers, created by less experienced users, etc. are all fair game. I am not screening for subjective "quality"; as long as I can download and use the voicebank and it matches the criteria below, it will most likely be included.

Criteria:

Must be an UTAU voicebank -- there's nothing wrong with DiffSinger, it's just not what I'm looking for.

Must have English as its primary language -- voicebanks made for other languages with English extras are excluded. Multilingual voicebanks with English as one of the primary languages will be examined on a case-by-case basis, but I might not use them if they don't have adequate phoneme support.

Must be CVVC -- any method is fine, such as Salem CVVC, Delta CVVC, ARPAsing, VCCV, etc. CV and VCV are excluded because of lack of codas (and most English VCVs have inadequate phoneme support). C+V is excluded because it's a gimmick reclist and not really what I'm looking for. VCVVC will be examined on a case-by-case basis.

Must be available for free public download or have a private download you have permission to share and would be willing to share with me.

Must have transparent character art available for use in the video.

No jinriki or other unauthorized derivatives -- voicebanks must not violate UTAU or OpenUTAU TOU.

No RVC voicebanks -- I am not interested in English voicebanks which were created using RVC models even if they were made with permission. It's against the spirit of what I'm trying to show off here.

[shrimplemelody]

and i had the same dream again and i had the same dream again and i had the same dream again

i covered 'trust me' with adachi rei arpasing!

[bmpmp3]

sorry i keep letterpeopleposting but im trying out recording a c+v english voicebank and im going through the same thing mr r and the letter girls on that fucking alien planet hostage situation did rn