Talk:Utau

Take note of the Vocaloid page

Don't let this end up where the Vocaloid page was orginally, with huge amounts of information on the voicebanks... And nothing on the software. I just had to heavily edit this page myself like I did with Vocaloid to correct this problem, also note that previously, it was very "unencyclopedic" and didn't fit in with the wikipedia standards anyway. I know everyone wants to talk about relationships within the voicebanks and Vocaloid and all... But those sorts of things don't belong here and as there is no "canon" storyline for this or Vocaloid, it does nothing for the page but fill it with fanfluff.

So yeah... Please can everyone control the fanfluff on these pages. 94.168.119.106 (talk) 22:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Full list of Utauloids

You can find a full list of Utauloids here. http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/UTAUloids

Speech synthesis

I understand it can be used for things like HANASU, but speech synthesis is not the purpose of UTAU - it's meant as a "virtual instrument", as in use for music. To elaborate, it's like saying Internet Explorer is a gaming software; you could use it for that, but that's not what it's for. Add that to the fact speech synthesis works in a completely different manner. Only dead fish go with the flow. 00:38, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Vocal is part of speech, a particular route of speaking, but part of it no less. 94.168.119.106 (talk) 11:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Gaming is part of Internet usage. Doesn't make IE a gaming software. 76.91.75.78 (talk) 23:53, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Vocaloid and UTAU are "vocal resynthesis engines." They are basically autotune-on-steroids, using existing voice recordings strung together and edited to sound musical, nothing more, nothing less. They aren't speech synthesizers since they are a) not true synthesizers and b) for singing rather than speech. 216.96.245.104 (talk) 00:02, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Just dropping a note, there is a difference between how auto tune works and these two software, they work basically in opposite directions. They are not "auto-tune on steroids". One takes a sample of a real voice (or otherwise) and programs it to be "perfect" by removing all the natural faults produced in a human voice. The other two take fragments of a real voice supplied as samples given by real voice actors and signers, then tries to recreate that voice completely from scratch. 86.162.156.72 (talk) 11:18, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, vocal is part of speech. UTAU is a specialized software, used for VOCAL synthesis, not speech synthesis, and definitely not voice synthesis. It's very difficult to synthesize speech with Utau, and it just plain doesn't synthesize voices. You have to input the voice yourself, and then you can use it to synthesize song vocals. UTAU is a vocal synthesis software.

EDIT: Okay, the VOCALOID page describes VOCALOID as a "singing synthesizer application" so let's go with that. 173.30.154.171 (talk) 18:20, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

UTAU voicebanks

Can we avoid listing the UTAUloids? The reason being is there are literally thousands of voicebanks, why list just the 7 most common ones? Really, its more fanfluff then anything. Also, even though Vocaloid lists a lot of its products, it doesn't bother with details and the only Vocaloid with a lot of detail is Hatsune Miku; for cultural impact reasons. 81.157.194.122 (talk) 09:59, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

I concur that a long list is not what we need here; additionally, some cleanup of this article would be useful. --RichardMills65 (talk) 23:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Ayame or Ameya?

We can't have 2 different uncomfirmed names of the same person in this Article. Anybody knows any source? --Bumblezellio (talk) 20:24, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

This is two years late but it's actually written this way (Ameya/Ayame) by the developer him(?)self. —suzukaze (t・c) 05:19, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Website

The website for UTAU seems a bit sketchy can someone fix it98.109.191.90 (talk) 03:27, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

UTAU and Vocaloid license not compatible

The page states: "Due to the software's own copyright agreement, non-open license software such as VOCALOID is not permitted to be imported into the UTAU software.[citation needed]" I think it is the other way around. Reference: VOCALOID2 Hatsune Miku End User License Agreement -> http://www.crypton.co.jp/download/pdf/eula_cv01.pdf. 第 4 条（禁止事項） ... (3) 本製品の全部又は一部をお客様又は第三者のソフトウエアのコンポーネントとして使用する こと。 Google translates this as: Article 4 (prohibition) ... (3) Be used as a component of software or third-party customers in whole or in part. I found this information on http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/UTAU_User_Manual_-_1: "Warning: Never use VOCALOID's voice output as UTAU's voice bank. (Article 4 of the VOCALOID End User License Agreement applies: (Prohibitions)(3) "Using all or part of this product as a component of your or a third party software.")" GruffiGummi (talk) 09:51, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Explain phrases?

Like, I mean, what exactly is 'Jinriki Vocaloid'? We should be more accurate, people. nyansama02 (talk) 13:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

No need for notable voices

The article conntains most of these in "cultural impact". Plus, this issiply a way of creeping back in the old list we had originally for UTAU which just listed the voices in a clumsy manner. Also, bare in mind that you have to explain what makes these voices "notable" over the thousands of others out there. Yes, Teto is popular, but again... The cultural references section is listing why. To wrrant this section, you must mke it stand out as its own otherwise there is simply no need for it, and the rest of the rticle is already handling things. This isn't lke Voaloid, CeVio and all were there re just a select few voices and their all official, with most UTAU they are unofficial and there are thousands of them... We can't list nor keep track of them all. So these vocals MUST havenotable reasons listed with citations as to why. 2.102.219.135 (talk) 09:20, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Questions

Konnichiwa! I got some burning questions 1. Do you have to ask before using Utauloids for commercial use? I know with Teto you do. 2. I'm thinking of making one myself (like y'all haven't heard that before) and I'm wanting them to be multilingual. How do I do that? That's all for now

2605:A601:AFCA:DC00:A9CB:E692:624F:F7BB (talk) 15:49, 2 November 2020 (UTC) (or Dreamy)

this isnt a forum for utau discussion.

go to utaforum or something STIK2009 (talk) 00:37, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Utau to UTAU

can we rename the article from "Utau" to "UTAU"? from what ive seen its like always all capitalized STIK2009 (talk) 00:39, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

It was changed back and forth several times in 2010. The reason cited for the current title is MOS:TM. [1][2][3][4] small jars tc 12:31, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Preferred styling?

Was looking at link mentions in the article, and noticed that the Twitter/X account under the handle @ameyaP_, has not been mentioned. I'm not too sure on the full post history, but could it not provide some context for anything related to UTAU, if not even minor? ~RCLZN (talk) 13:56, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

-- Forgot the reason I wrote the title the way I did, which is consistency and for was of reading. I do understand why the reason the name is written as Ameya/Ayame in the current state of this article, but for simplicity, would it not be better to use the version seemingly used most? ~RCLZN (talk) 14:05, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

OpenUTAU or OpenUtau?

The source that was given for describing OpenUtau called it OpenUTAU; the official GitHub page clearly calls it OpenUtau. Which one should this article go with? (Personally, I suspect the source given for this is wrong in this aspect.) If OpenUtau is more appropriate, could someone deal with the source in some way or another? Thanks in advance. (I'm new to editing Wikipedia in general, and came to a conclusion that this is something I shouldn't decide myself.) Faiiwastaken (talk) 09:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)