How To Make An UTAU Voicebank

[@nerosekai]

for the otoing explanation red line: separates the consonant from the vowel green line: where the sample starts basically pink part: drag it to the point where the consonant finishes and the vowel starts purple/blue part: cut-off -/+ boxes: zoom out, zoom in P box: preview sample s box: spectrum, you'll be able to see the spectrum of the .wav file, it's especially useful for vcv/cvvc voice banks if you can't distinguish the separate syllables since waveform looks the same. I mainly use it for nasal consonants like n and m since they blend fairly easily with the vowels

[@V33EX]

@Kam Adrian I'd imagine that's why they described it as 'where the sample starts', most would fade right about there

[@V33EX]

@Kam Adrian ah, that makes sense. I didn't think of it that way.

[@Cupheadsadvocate]

"Nobody uses audacity anymore" Friday Night Funkin' chromatic scale makers and voice actors: and i took that shit personally

[@Lucky-xb8vr]

I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SO EASY?? just record it. put it into a folder. put that folder into the voices folder in utau, then ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!! :D

[@ayamothy4628]

It’s really great seeing a more recent UTAU tutorial! I just got a new laptop and can’t wait to get started on making my own voicebank

[@YogurtCorgi]

Hope you enjoy making it :D

[@laurs_ul]

it makes me laugh how i put my hands on utau for the first time 4 days before you made this video! the majority of tutorials are veeery old and i'm so glad that i could find a recent guide on how to create a voicebank. [that's just all i need in life tbh, it's been years that i wanted to use the software-] please, keep on making utau tutorials! you have all my support!

[@mysryuza]

It’s good that there are people like you still making Utau tutorials that are closer to today. It’s hard to stay focused sometimes when tutorials get too ramble-y and you wanna have a tutorial to be straightforward. Good luck on your Utaus! It’s gonna be time consuming but it’ll be worth it

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

why am i watching this i dont even own a laptop

[@legacyff69]

go buy a laptop igs

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@@legacyff69 im poor👁️〰️👁️

[@legacyff69]

gain money or smh

[@right662]

Idk

[@laleyendadelapuchaina]

@@Eaten_squid_cakedon’t be it’s that easy🙄🙄

[@KonakiRikou]

Nice JoJo background 🙏 also thank you for the tutorial!! ❤❤

[@YAMAIHIME]

personally using Audacity, as tedious as it is I would record each sound individually. Higher quality results, IMO. (I say this because I am also currently updating a voice bank and I have noticed the quality difference, but this is just my personal experience...)

[@lithentity889]

Another suggestion is to hear a note in the background to match your voice to, to make sure everything is in tune (that way nothing’s off-key in the long run) I suggest doing C (it’s practically the go-to note) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzMaGuIe5ypmc0si=Xfw3170lr3pHS6Wk

[@isabela6876]

Literally, one of the best Utau tutorials, thanks

[@Spaztron64]

Very very nice tutorial! Simple and to the point, and in just a few hours I was able to create my own Lain CV voicebank.

[@D3DBATZ666]

This was very useful. But I might just stick with Synth V for now till I get better . Loved watching this . Plz make more videos explaining things. Your voice is relaxing

[@al3xm3rc3r0]

simple a.need sort out bank voices after record b. record voices also like A.B.C.D c. well you can modify samples too.

[@maneelatt]

loved ur tutorial, i was looking for a more up to date one so i'm glad i came across urs since its (imo) even easier to follow compared to some of the older ones i found ! thank you so much !

[@SteamChaser96]

You are a godsend

[@kalebyoung4098]

Audacity ROCKS! It's the only interface I have ever been able to record my PC live with!

[@sectorrrrr]

4:45 you can also use markers and tell audacity to save the stuff between them as separate files

[@YogurtCorgi]

Oooh didn't know this! Thank you!

[@sectorrrrr]

@@YogurtCorgi np :D

[@skeouspace]

thanks a lot for this! i've been looking into creating an utau and this guide was really easy to follow!

[@rei1858]

saving this knowing I probs won’t do it

[@underscoredotpng]

lmao

[@-studio3614]

I wanted to thank you for the subtitles in portuguese my english is not very good, and that helped me a lot :)

[@0livision]

THIS HELPED SO MUCH TYYYY

[@thewoomy7029]

This is so useful, thank you so much!

[@alwaysyouramanda]

I taught myself hiragana in the summer of 8th grade (gosh, that was almost 19 years ago-!? I remember.. some of it. Lol it should come in handy then-?

[@summer2890]

yeah, it definitely will! of course, not without a recap, but that's useful af!

[@ina_isnt_there_]

i have a problem: i have recorded everything for my UTAU voicebank and when i try to play a note like "あ" i can't hear anything, same happens with the other characters (i recorded them and it saved them as a .wma) i have tried to oto too and when i press the "voice configuration" button, it says "Invalid voice configuration", do you know how to fix this?

[@hackiep3115]

download it idk

[@YogurtCorgi]

you'll want to convert them from .wma to .wav

[@ina_isnt_there_]

@@YogurtCorgi thanks!!

[@Olivia256189]

I already have mine set to wav but it's still not working. Would you happen to know why?

[@anui4461]

tysm

[@That_Creep_2089]

Nice and simple thanks :)

[@anti_partition4231]

now who the hell is this guy

[@jessedoes7162]

Ur a life saver thx a lot pal

[@Twiddle_things]

Thanks, man! Love your voice, clear tutorial. Defo using this when I get meself a better computer haha

[@mememachine7996]

this helped a lot!

[@ribbonskulls]

thank you i can now make craig tucker utau

[@ribbonskulls]

@F.I i ahve no idea

[@underscoredotpng]

uhhhh don't do that if it's not your own voice

[@AriPlayz08]

I need help. So I tried making the different sounds for the voicebank, but how do I make them sing? I changed the alias to each constant, but it still won't play any sound. How do I fix this? Edit: I tried a different software and was able to make the voicebank!!

[@sunfish1640]

Are you using a specific UST file? Or is it not making sound at all?

[@AriPlayz08]

@@sunfish1640 It's not working at all I think. I tried changing the alias to the sound it made (for example: I changed one to "ka") but whenever I type the word out, it doesn't play the sound. It's one I made so idk how to make it work

[@sunfish1640]

@@AriPlayz08 Could I be sent the voicebank? Maybe I could help in some way

[@AriPlayz08]

@@sunfish1640 Sure!! I'm just not sure how to export them (like what do I use to export the file to be downloaded?) but after that then of course!!

[@Qi_Yiyin]

What microphone do you use to record a voicebank?

[@YogurtCorgi]

I used a Hyper X Quadcast, but any mic should be fine, including the one on your phone! Just make sure to avoid as much background noise as possible when recording, and you can always use audacity to help make it clearer no matter the equipment!

[@_izumi_glitchy_9218]

Does this apply to openutau too?

[@failure_atlife]

i would assume! I miiiiiight try making one myself, in which case i'll let you know how it works

[@w1nterycl0uds22]

not quite the same, ive tried quite a lot of different ways but ill update you if i can figure it out

[@_izumi_glitchy_9218]

@@w1nterycl0uds22 thanks a lottt, I couldn't find any that's about openutau

[@toiletP]

Any utau voicebanks works in openutau so i don't think it rly matter. The only difference between openutau voicebanks is they usually gave voice colors and portraits set up i belive.

[@niasoulheart2917]

I’m trying to find the vowels but I can’t could you please tell me what website you used

[@YogurtCorgi]

The vowels are あ(a, pronounced like ahh), い(i, pronounced like ee), う(u, pronounced like oo), え(e, pronounced like ehh), and お (o, pronounced like oh). The website shown in the video is just the wilipedia page for hirigana (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana ), but I suggest looking at other lists (they're called reclists) because they often include some extra sounds that can come in useful! The reclists that I usually reccomend were taken down by the author yesterday :( BUT! here's one by GrayOblivion that looks good! www.deviantart.com/grayoblivion/art/UTAU-CV-Japanese-Reclist-381067704 Hope this helps :)

[@yovin.t]

hi!! so. there's a little problem here,,, well, i converted sounds from my phone because i don't have any mic on my pc. i did everything - folder, hiragana, .wav and utau still don't want to recognize anything,, (i mean play any notes) am i dumb? :D

[@YogurtCorgi]

hi! if you open your voicebank in UTAU, click tools and then voicebank settings. double click any of the sounds on the list and if it plays back to you there then dont worry, you've done all the recoring and saving right. If its not playing there, then it might be an issue with the samples themselves and you might need to save them again in a new folder. sometimes programs get fussy about how many folders they have to go through too, so try saving it directly into doccuments or onto your desktop to test if thats the issue. If the samples are playing in the settings but not when you highlight them and press play in the project/ust area, a common cause for this is not changing your PC's locale to Japanese (this just allows your computer to understand Japanese, it doesn't change everything into Japanese). to do this search control panel on your computer, open it, find the "Clock and Region" section and underneath that should be a setting that says "Change date, time or number formats". click that, then go to the administrative tab and the option to change locale is there. choose Japanese, restart your PC and hopefully it should now work! You might need to reinstall the voicebank into UTAU though, just in case. Hope this helps! Let me know if you get it working or not or need anymore help with it! And don't worry, you're not dumb at all!

[@DiaMonD_KUROI]

@@YogurtCorgi hey, i have the same issue, it's not reading in the settings either, but when i open the fils in audacity they're just fine... what should i do ?

[@seraph1el_]

tysm for this tutorial! it was super helpful :)

[@benjithefox1278]

Would you still need to follow the Japanese alphabet in order to do the English types of lyrics with it?

[@YogurtCorgi]

You can sort of make it sing in English, especially if you record a few extra samples (sorry I don't have them off the top of my head right now) and put in the effort to tune it buuuuut i'd suggest searching up English UTAUs and looking into the different types of methods for those for a better sounding English voicebank!

[@benjithefox1278]

@@YogurtCorgi Thank you so much! :)

[@secret_-_channel]

How do you do this with english? I cant find any tutorials online

[@TsovoaLevone]

You can try to play with Japanese phonetics.

[@RoyaleMI152]

the only problem i have after i do like the last part otoing , i leave or it kickes me out or something and my process is lost and i have to restart

[@bunbunskull]

for some reason some of the notes just sound like 8 bits how do i fix that

[@TouchTheUniverse]

THIS IS helpfull

[@zlyn4re]

wait… it’s not pronounced you towe

[@yuzuririn]

@F.I its oo-tao

[@carimeslockdownedtree2654]

@IllegalsInMyYard it's actually not pronounced oo-tao, but oo-ta-oo! it comes from the japanese word meaning 'to sing'. 歌う = uta-u. you could put it on google translate if it'd help you! but either way, it's not like everyone does it, and that pronunciation isn't exactly the most comfortable for native english speakers. i have the upper hand of having spanish as my native tongue here. (sorry if there's any double notification, op. forgot to select the particular comment i wanted to reply to)

[@TsovoaLevone]

I want to make one for Yiddish

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Can you make a tutorial for CVVC, VCCV, and ARPAsing, please?

[@autumowo5081]

The reason why oremo wont show the english letters is because you don't have the comment file or oremo cant find it.

[@zeinette_]

lucky me im learning Japanese so I don't have to look them up haha

[@YudaMudaCorp]

Terimakasiih

[@Olivia256189]

When recording, do I have to have a monotonous voice so that when I insert it into UTAU it'll work. There have been times when I recorded it just fine but it ends up sounding weird Edit: I have made my voicebank and it didn't need to be monotonous. What was happening is I forgot to set my mic in audacity to blue yeti, so it was just doing the default laptop mic which is why it was messing up

[@aveevaevaa]

how do u change romanji to hiragana?

[@blessedbyminos]

it's a plugin

[@jasxyx]

how do you conver,t romanji to kana is that a plugin

[@YogurtCorgi]

Yes, its a plugin from here: ux.getuploader.com/yuuboku/download/7/romantokana_2009092601.zip

[@fukasesanwabakadesu]

oh hi jas

[@jasxyx]

@@fukasesanwabakadesu hi

[@bk-entertainz7081]

Or just go to language settings on your computer and get the Japanese IME keyboard

[@jimmypoopasin]

@@bk-entertainz7081 Yes that's easier

[@MakoChan3939]

can you make an utau with your voice ?

[@taliafuller8427]

Yes you can.

[@Lvv3nd3r]

I have a Windows 11, would making an Utau be compatible with a Windows 11 or no?

[@YogurtCorgi]

It works on Windows 11 :D

[@ruikasa1212]

@@YogurtCorgi oh thank god

[@hashtag935]

I exported my audio from audacity for each vowel but there's no sound for any of the lyrics I write.

[@YogurtCorgi]

Have you done the oto on your samples yet? It could be playing silence from the beginning of your samples if it hasn’t been oto’d. Also make sure the lyrics are matching how you have saved the samples, e.g. if you want to say “ichi, ni, san” and your sample names are saved as hiragana, you would want to put い　ちぃ　に　さ　ん but if you saved it as romaji you would want to put i chi ni sa n Hope this helps!

[@starry.sk13s]

are you able to make a tutorial for an english voicebank?

[@taliafuller8427]

How did you open Oremo? I keep getting errors on mine, is there any way to fix this?

[@dandyrion5779]

i sometimes have issues with oremo so you can always use akorin instead

[@YogurtCorgi]

Try completly uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Oremo doesn't like to work for the randomest of reasons sometimes, at least in my experiences with it.

[@dandyrion5779]

@@YogurtCorgi Basically a super unstable program which is wuite outdated but we make do

[@rainey.dayyYT]

So I had this probalem and I found a fix: Go to your Control Pannel> Go to Clock and Region> Click on Region> Click over to Administrative> Click on change system local> And change it to Japan Restart your computer and unintall the program and then reinstall it Hope this helps!!!

[@mikkoo937]

You need to change your system region to Japan in control panel. And if it's already about Japan, then turn off "UFT 8 for support for languages from around the world"

[@M3ntally_S1lly]

thanks for the tutorial! i needed this -w- but i have a problem every time i open oremo the thing is literally pure black plz help-

[@YogurtCorgi]

try a complete uninstall of oremo and then reinstall it.

[@KingCharlieS07]

When I try to import my A sound, it just says Invalid Tool 1 setting.

[@YogurtCorgi]

Hmm. I can’t seem to find much online about that, my best guess is there’s an issue with your wavtool. Make sure the tool 1 (append) box in your project properties says wavtool.exe Otherwise, the best suggestion I can give is to reinstall the program

[@otsav009]

omg thank you1!11111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@boredazu4471]

ok so basically i imported the stuff, but it sounds horribly glitched/broken, and i have no idea why

[@risstastic]

how would you go about making an english VB?

[@niicespiice]

maybe you could, instead of naming them あいうえお kinds of things, name them "aiueo" and see what happens. if it works, you could try writing down other english sounds and recording all of them. this will take longer than japanese because there are a lot more english vowels than japanese ones

[@lawrencewei3583]

same process but you would need a more complex syllable structure, but it would take a lot longer since english phonology is waaaaayyyy more complicated

[@underscoredotpng]

uhhhh if it's your first time, *_DON'T DO IT_* . English in UTAU is pretty hard to nake and use.

[@jessiemineimations]

Anyone know where I can download the Utau software?

[@YogurtCorgi]

This is where to download it from: utau2008.xrea.jp/ and just in case heres a tutorial on installing it properly :) yoggoutau.wixsite.com/yoggosutaus/how-to-install-utau

[@jessiemineimations]

@@YogurtCorgi is it safe to get?

[@YogurtCorgi]

@@jessiemineimations in my experiences, yeah

[@jessiemineimations]

@@YogurtCorgi is there any type i could use without changing the system locale?

[@YogurtCorgi]

@@jessiemineimations The system locale has to be changed, otherwise things will appear in characters that look like gibberish and nothing will work properly, since the software uses Japanese in its programming. There is OpenUtau, which is an unofficial sucessor, and that might not need you to change it, but I don't know much about it so I can't be of much help with it, sorry. github.com/stakira/OpenUtau

[@zoee7908]

Hello so i need a little bit of help here so i made my voice recordings and I recorded them twice i did everything that you were supposed to do i went to project and pressed the three dots and blah blah blah you know the rest and i inserted a ust i wanted my uatu to sing and when i played it it played the notes but I couldn’t hear anything and i checked my hertz and my volume but i still couldn’t hear anything I’ve searched all over the Internet to find a fix for this and found nothing so yeah can you maybe find a fix for this😅

[@YogurtCorgi]

Hi! :) If you double click any of the recordings in the voicebank settings menu, do they play there? Have you OTO'd them? It could be playing silence from the beginning of the sample if you haven't yet. Is the ust compatible with the type of voicebank you've made? E.g. a CV voicebank (lyrics look like "あ" with just the hiragana ) like in the tutorial won't work with a VCV ust (lyrics look like this "- あ" with symbols or letters before). The other thing to check is if your system local is changed to Japanese (this just allows your computer to understand Japanese programs). Let me know if any of these help or not :)

[@mdr9180]

K have a problem. Whenever I go to oremo it's not in japanese, and it's just gibberish symbols. How to I fix this? :(

[@torikaeko]

You need to uninstall it and then change your system locale to Japanese before reinstalling. Beware that it may mess up other areas of your computer though (e.g. decimal points and currency), but it is the only way of getting both OREMO and UTAU to work. I would look up a tutorial so you know how to do it on your device :) Hope this helps and all goes well!

[@HashtagBucketLife]

@@torikaeko i changed my locale to japanese but it still showed up as gibberish, wtf did i do wrong

[@underscoredotpng]

Uninstall, change locale, reinstall

[@Mau-P]

But a problem is, idk how to make a website. And idk how to draw on pc…

[@utsade]

You can draw on your phone and then import it to your pc,to make your own website you can use carrd thingy to make that

[@Mau-P]

@@utsade a card??? What card are you talking about?

[@maple_f0xx]

@@Mau-P pretty sure they meant the Carrd website

[@Mau-P]

@@maple_f0xx oh, i don’t know whats a website card

[@hopefulaski]

@@Mau-P the website is called "carrd".

[@jessiemineimations]

I followed the steps on your guide for changing the language but for some reason everything is gibberish, is there a way to fix it?

[@YogurtCorgi]

follow where the instructions point to again, but change which language selected to whatever it was originally. gibberish is usually a system locale issue?

[@shinuthestar]

I'm very late to comment this but, why can't my otemo start up? it gives me an error.

[@YukiZLostWolfKid]

You need to trick the software into thinking something else so it opens, very complicated I recommend a tutorial..

[@justgoy0]

you have to change your location to japan locale so it works properly, that might be the issue.

[@chebbytv]

@@justgoy0 well i did but it isnt working either

[@shopppingcart]

@@chebbytv besides changing the non unicode locale to japanese, you also need to change the decimal symbol from , to . (a dot). to do this you need to go to the control panel and then on the first tab it should say more settings. click on it and then you should see a thing called decimal symbol. change it to a dot. and maybe also delete and reinstall oremo just in case

[@V33EX]

400th like :D

[@DesireeEagle]

*me thinking this is how they created FN Meka*

[@estahbear]

What is FN Meka?

[@woofwoofbarkbark1798]

i recorded all of my letters and stuff but when i first tried to import it to utau, it had no voice, and then the 2nd time i tried, it only came out as an A sound, what am i doing wrong?

[@midorimeans]

Did you oto it?

[@austinwillmurderyoutonight]

would this work with another language or no??

[@YogurtCorgi]

It mostly depends on the language, and you will need to find a CV reclist for that language so you can record all the right sounds

[@Ashchan_]

Where do I download oremo?

[@vibesinboxes]

how do i download utau?

[@YogurtCorgi]

I have a written guide on that here, hope it helps! :) yoggoutau.wixsite.com/yoggosutaus/how-to-install-utau

[@ItzShinePlayz]

Hmm I wanted to find for other languages phonemes but I can't seem to know what their called in this part of section 💀 I think I need to rewatch cuzz I'm pretty new to SVS 😭

[@YogurtCorgi]

This might be what you're looking for? They're called reclists, this link has a list with a bunch of differnt languages, but its a bit of an old resource now, so some of the links might not work anymore. Also note what voicebank type the lists are. My tutorial shows how to make a CV voicebank, and some reclists will be either CV, VCV or CVVC or other types that have different ways of reccording. utaureclists.blogspot.com/ Sorry for late reply, hope this helps!

[@ItzShinePlayz]

@@YogurtCorgi arigato guzaimashita 😸 I will look on it. Hopefully, I'm able to create my vert first voicebank. I appreciate your time for explaining abit of information there. I had no idea between reclist and voice type. (I think it's what they we're called?(?)) Onces again, Arigato guzaimashita

[@Ventea69]

where can i download oremo?(

[@Ventea69]

@@Aether-azurr thank you!!:)))

[@agustinalvaradocamacho1733]

I recoded the aeiou and exported them in wav file, but i cant hear any sound

[@ithegasmr]

I had the same pronlem. I uninstalled and installed again and it worked for some reason? lmao maybe it helps you too

[@agustinalvaradocamacho1733]

@@ithegasmr Thank you, I'm going to check if it works