

While many people change the pitch of songs to either higher or lower to achieve this effect, the correct way to genderbend a Vocaloid or UTAU is to change g flags (gender settings) in the software itself. Genderbent/genderbent - The term for a voice that has been edited to sound like a different gender.


Click here for a list of flags and their functions. Flags include Y and H (clarity of sound), BRE (breathiness), an g (gender: + for lower, - for higher). For example, "ai" is not pronounced as a separate "ah-ee" but as a flowing "I".įanloid/Fanmade - Any Vocaloid-like or UTAU-like fanmade character that either has a voice derived from an existing voicebank, or no actual synth voice at all.įlags - Flags are an editing feature in UTAU that helps change the tonal quality of notes. Diphonics refers to the style itself, where as diphones refers to the specific sounds.ĭipthong - A dipthong is a 2-vowel combination that is pronounced as a single unit. Examples would be consonant-vowel combinations such as "ka" or vowel-vowel diphongs such as "ai". The most popular kind of CVVC is English.ĭefoko/Utane Uta - The default voice of UTAU, created from a text-to-speech voice from Aquestalk.ĭiphones/diphonics - A diphone is a unit of sound consisting of 2 phonemes (units of pronunciation). This is a very popular method for creating reclists in other languages (besides Japanese). Sounds consist of either a single V, "vowel," sound (a, i, e, o, u and n included) or "consonant-vowel" (ka, ji, no, etc).ĬVVC - CVVC or CV VC uses CV's (Consonant-Vowels) such as "ka" and "ke" V's and VV's (Vowels and Vowel-Vowels) such as "a" and "ai" and VC's (Vowel-Consonants) such as "ak" and "ek". It is the traditional recording system of UTAU, being designed for the Japanese language. It can be downloaded at the Audacity homepage here.ĬV - CV stands for "Consonant-Vowel". It is usable on both PC and Mac computers. Developed by Kanru Hua, creator of Moresampler.Īudacity - A freeware recording software that might be used to record wav samples for a voicebank or mix UTAU vocals with an instrumental track. However, AppLocale does not allow hiragana usage in the UTAU software without crashing, so only romaji may be used.Īrpasing - A style of English recording that uses the ARPAbet phonetic system. To find a term, you can use ctrl+f on PC or cmd+f on Mac to search the list.Īiff- An uncompressed sound file extension type used in Mac UTAU-Synth to build voicebanks.Īmeya/Ayame - The programmer of UTAU and the maintainer of the UTAU website/blog.ĪppLocale - An alternative way of using Japanese software (eg, UTAU) in an English machine if the East Asian Language packs are not installed. Below is a list of words commonly mentioned when talking about the UTAU/Vocaloid software and fandom.
