#otoing

[generalnuisance0]

bro bro you need to cool it with the overlap man you're going to ruin the oto bro fuck

[alilrainboo2030]

Character.txt/Readme.txt file for UTAU🎵

This is a suggestion for a character.txt file that should be created in the voicebank folder. The name in the file will appear on the UTAU main screen, below the icon. The author's name will appear in the spec box. 🎶

For my Reclist or Phonic Type, I called or the Japanese "Robotic" is CV, "Natural" is VCV or CVVC, but English VCCV or Arpasing is already there.🎙🎼

(This right below is my file ideas for you guys to do UTAU.) Here you go! ⤵️ "Copy"&"Paste"

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UTAU PROGRAM

OTO/Voice by:

Software:

Language:

Reclist/Phonic Type:

Vocal/Pitch Range:

Illustrated by:

Android Term:

Voice Type/Style:

Model Code:

Tempo:

Formats:

VB Release Date:

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[dralineee]

UTAU Otoing Tutorial

So this will probably never be read by anyone ever, but I thought, while I still understand this concept I might as well create a post so that when i do forget, I’ve got it written down somewhere.

Note: When referring to the program, UTAU is in capitals, when referring to the voice bank utau, is in lowercase.

What’s an OTO?

For lots of people, an oto is the bane of making an utau, it’s confusing and there doesn’t appear to be any clear idea of what it actually does. But no one wants to read the UTAU user manual. 

But from what I understand, an oto is used by an utau to tell it where for each recording it should start, stop and preserve the sound. 

This is especially important when creating either a VCV or CVVC voice bank as the smoothing effect is achieved by cutting off parts of your recording. This can be done by having a single recording for each syllable (this is how a CV is recorded) however, with more complex voice banks it’s much easier to compress a set of syllables into a single recording. This gives the utau not only a smoother and more consistent sound, but it’s also much easier to record and makes your the number of files in your utau’s folder much smaller.

Do I need an OTO? Hint: probably.

Often in CV utau’s there is no need for an oto as by having a recording for each syllable is enough information for UTAU to create the note for your utau to sing. However, if you’ve recording has a long silence at the beginning, you wobble off key at the end of your recording or you find that your utau, when singing shorter notes, cuts off part of your recording you may want to consider otoing. 

Even if you don’t have any of those problems, I would highly recommend otoing anyway. It will give you slightly more control when your utau is singing.

If you’re making a VCV or CVVC voice bank you will definitely need it. 

Beginning the otoing process

I’ll only be showing how to oto CV and VCV voice banks as they are the only ones I work with.

To begin otoing we will need to go to voice bank settings which is under tools:

This will open a display which will look similar to this:

The recordings you’ve put in your utau’s folder should appear in the Name column. In my case, I’ve just got a,i,u,e,o at two different pitches. 

The next column, Alias, is used to encode your utau and is a fairly straight forward process for CV voice banks. For VCV voice banks aliasing isn’t as easy and I’ll explain my process a little later on.

To begin otoing click on the syllable you want to oto and press ‘Launch editor’.

In the top left corner we can see the name of the file and the alias in speech marks. This is helpful when when otoing VCV when you have multiple syllables in a single recording. 

The blue lines are the SOUND WAVE, you’ll be able to see this if you’re in sound editing software like audacity. 

The orange line is your TUNING. The line in the middle is where your orange line should be approximately. If you find that in your recording the orange line is hugely off the mark or dips really far at random points in the recording, it’s probably a good idea to re-record as it will noticeably affect how your utau will sound. 

The red line is the PREUTTERANCE. This is used to identify where the beginning of the vowel begins or, for VCV, where the beginning of the syllable is. 

The green line is the OVERLAP. This is the area in which will be used to blend the two sounds together.

For now just drag preutterance and overlap lines over into the open, if you continue dragging from the side you will get a pink shaded area and blue shaded area.

The pink shaded area is the CONSONANT. To prevent confusion, I will call this the CLIP. This is the part of the recording that UTAU will not stretch or as I said before, preserve the sound.  

The blue shaded area is the CUT OFF. This is the part of the recording that will be completely ignored by UTAU.

Once you’ve dragged out everything, It should have all these parts.

CV Otoing process

It’s best to start with the CUT OFF as all your values will move with once they’ve been moved out. This should be placed where the sound wave begins, I find it’s nice to just give it a tiny little bit of silence at the beginning.  If you go to the end of the recording you can also drag a cut off area to cut off the end of your recording. If you had the problem where you go off key at the end of your recording, this is where you can fix it. Just cut off the recording just before you orange line starts bending weirdly. But make sure that it’s not too close to the Clip shaded area otherwise UTAU will have noting to stretch! 

Next is the CLIP (pink shaded area), this should cover the consonant and vowel as this is the bit you want to be able to hear clearly. Drag it all the way over till there is a semi consistent thickness in the sound wave in the vowel. 

The RED LINE/PREUTTERNACE should be where the beginning of your vowel is. With vowel recordings like a, i, u, e and o, you’ll want to place it right at the beginning of the sound wave. With syllables like ‘ka’, you’ll want to drag it to where the vowel begins. To identify this, usually there’ll be a bit of a bump in the sound wave where the consonant and usually where then next raise is where the Vowel is. 

 The GREEN LINE/OVERLAP should be placed about half way between the CUT OFF and the PREUTTERANCE.  

Once you’re done it should look something like this:

A good way to test if your oto is working is to get your Utau to sing in progressively shorter intervals for each line of the hirigana alphabet. e.g. ka, ki, ku, ke, ko. e.g.2. ta, chi, tsu, te, to. etc...

Example:

If you’ve correctly oto’ed you should be able to clearly hear each syllable at each interval without it sounding like the end has been chopped off.

CV Aliasing

Aliases are used to encode your utau in hirigana and romaji.

For example: ka.wav = か

At the moment, there is no way to automatically alias all your recordings and it can only be done manually. This can be done quicker if you use the oto.ini file in your utau’s folder.

In this file you should see something along the lines of:

a.wav=,,,,,                          From this you should change it to the following: e.wav=,,,,,                          a.wav=あ,,,,, i.wav,,,,,                             i.wav=い,,,,, o.wav,,,,　　　　　　　　o.wav=お,,,,, u.wav,,,,,                            etc...

If you’ve already oto’d your recordings before aliasing, just put the hirigana character before the commas. e.g. a.wav=あ, 37, 1254, 90, 564, 0.

If your computer won’t let you save in your utau folder (it should but if not) save it somewhere else, but Make sure to save your oto as a .txt file in UTF-8 encoding or else the hirigana will end up as strange symbols. You can change the .txt encoding here when saving:

Once you’ve done that with the syllables, open your new oto in UTAU by going to files.

Find the oto.ini file and your alias should appear like so:

If you had to save your oto elsewhere, make sure you’re searching with files with .txt and not .ini.

VCV Otoing process

With VCV or Vowel-Consonant-Vowel voice banks we want to use the otoing to chop up our recording to get the clips we need. Because there are multiple clips to one recording we’ll need to duplicate it in the oto table. Unlike CV aliasing, UTAU will not recognise the duplicates if you do it directly in the oto.ini file.  Do NOT make duplicates of your recording (.wav) in your utau’s folder. 

To do duplicate, select the .wav file you want and press duplicate.

It is possible to alias in both romaji and hiragana, however it would double your work load so until you’ve aliased fully in one or the other. I wouldn’t recommend aliasing in both.

If you’ve never oto’ed VCV before it can be a bit confusing to understand. But, what we do is use the Vowel from the previous syllable and stick it onto the current syllable. Thus why there’s in the alias it’s [o ヴぉ]. 

I like to duplicate the non-oto’ed version of the recording and Alias it before I actually start the oto. I find if I put each syllable in first and then add the vowel of the previous one it’s a little faster. Make sure to press set every time you put an alias.

When you open up your editor it should look along the lines of this (If you zoom out):

If you don’t know how to read sound waves, we can see how each part breaks up.

So when we oto, we oto it like this:

let’s work with [u va] or [u ヴぁ]! (the second section of this recording)

For the CUT OFF we want to bring it to the beginning “u” sound from the previous “Vu” sound. This is usually around the middle of the “Vu” sound, Or, much like finding the Vowel for CV, where the shape of the Sound wave changes. You can shift the cut off area around and double click on the ‘P’ button in the top left corner next to the + and - buttons, this will playback the current oto of your recording (excluding the Cut off areas).

With the END CUT OFF, you want to Bring it to the end of the “Va” syllable.

With the RED LINE/PREUTTERANCE you want place it at the beginning of your syllable. This will make sure that the syllable “Va” is sung in time rather that being playing “u va” and the “va” sound being heard at the wrong time.

With the GREEN LINE/OVERLAP, again, you want to place it in between the Preutterance and Cut off, however, more often than not you will want to place it closer to the cut off than you would with a CV as it will give more Vowel for UTAU to blend with. 

With the CLIP/PINK SHADED AREA you want to have it cover the previous Vowel and the entire syllable. This will make sure UTAU will use “u va” instead of  “u v-”. As you can see from the example above, this does not mean you need to cover the entire section, where the thickness of the sound wave is consistent is approximately where the vowel is extended. 

Continue this process with the rest of the recording. With the beginning segment of the recording, oto it like you would with a CV recording making sure to cut off the following syllable. An easy way to just go down the list is to use the arrows at the bottom of the editor, this will go up and down the list for you to oto each syllable with out having to exit the editor. 

To check if you’ve oto’ed correctly, you can line up the syllables you’ve just oto’ed. e.g. - vu, u va, a va, a vi etc...

Here I’ve got the recording’s syllables repeated 3 times.

1) 1/4 notes to see if the sound sounds smooth. Make sure you cross fade

2) alternating notes progressively getting higher to test smoothness between notes.

3) 1/8 notes to see if you can clearly hear each syllable. 

Don’t be afraid of the envelope going over the end of the note’s area. This is how the syllables blend together, if the Vowel is cut off for a syllable it will be replaced by the overlap for the one following after. 

If you find that when you add new files to your utau folder while you oto other files, you may find that the new files don’t show up. Don’t panic! Simply refresh by going to File Refresh.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me! 

[generalnuisance0]

Opening commissions

Hi everyone - my job hasn't scheduled me with a shift yet despite having been hired a month ago due to a paperwork error.

As such, I have opened 3 slots for my otoing and tuning commissions. I would GREATLY appreciate any commissions or boosts to this post. Thank you so so much.

[joongneojis]

× otoing requests ×

× Current status: OPEN (Expect late replies)

Hello! This is a master post for the free otoing requests I’m taking!

I already have a still valid post on this on DeviantArt right here, but since it's a major service I'm offering, I figured I should make a post here too!

× × × CONDITIONS × × ×

× I can oto CV, VCV and CV VC (experienced with Japanese, Korean, and Chinese), as well as combinations of these.

× You can send your request to me via Tumblr, DeviantArt or DMs on Twitter (connections way down on this blog).

× CV voicebanks will usually be worked on before VCV voicebanks because I take a lot less time to do the former.

× You may ask for an estimated time how long it will take me to finish your request.

× Please do NOT rush me and set any impossible time limits like “I want you to have it finished tomorrow!” for a VCV voicebank.

× If you find someone who can finish your request earlier or faster than I can, tell me BEFORE I have started! It saves my time!

× I have the right to refuse your request if the voicebank/s contain/s too many errors; if there are just a few, I will tell you to fix them.

× You can reserve a slot in case you haven't finished your voicebank yet, so I will work on it as soon as your voicebank is finished, even before requests which were made later. (Hope it's understandable.)

× I do NOT oto UTAU-Synth voicebanks unless they are compatible with UTAU!

× Please credit me as either “Kitasato” or “otasatic”!

× If you’d prefer talking via IM devices, you can ask me for my LINE or Discord IDs.

That would be it! In case of any other questions not answered above, please do not hesitate to ask me!

× × × Voicebanks currently oto'ing (first on list is first to oto) × × ×

× none! × 3 reserved slots on DeviantArt

last update: Aug 27 2017

[unknownlinguist]

i swear to god whenever i’m OTOing or recording STORM it’s starts to pour and thunder outside

[expresidentbidengetspegged]

Ah yes otoing. Consonant, overlap, preutterance and

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