Wiki Wednesday #331 - Cinno Kimodo

 I finally stopped feeling sick, but now I have so much anxiety.

Wiki Wednesday #331 - Cinno Kimodo

Cinno is fourteen years old and male.

Who is Kimodo Cinno?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #340 - 虎牙音おゆぽ / Kogane Oyupo

 it's the fourth of July!

Forgotten Friday #340 - 虎牙音おゆぽ / Kogane Oyupo

Oyupo is an eighteen year old tiger man who dislikes insects.

I'll outright say it - I'm going to go against my rules here. I always do my best to use every available bank. There's a CV bank on axfc... And Axfc is busted right now... And all I had to do was write down that I was going to break a rule and the Axfc gave me the download! Funny how that works.

Who is Oyupo Kogane?

Art from official site

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Wiki Wednesday #330 - VEL-P's Kimura Aimi

 as long as I didn't mess up and I have to go back and change the dates... This is the halfway point of the year!

Wiki Wednesday #330 - VEL-P's Kimura Aimi

Aimi is a seventeen year old virtual singer. She likes Pocky and cats. She hates school!

Who is Aimi Kimura?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #339 - hycuu's 唐草 / Karakusa

 I'm back on schedule to finish this project on Christmas day!

Forgotten Friday #339 - hycuu's 唐草 / Karakusa

Karakusa is a human woman. She likes ghosts.

Who Is Karakusa?

Upscaled art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #329 - Ryouko Akane / 茜龍子

Progress!

Wiki Wednesday #329 - Ryouko Akane / 茜龍子

Ryouko is a young woman who loves donuts.

Who is Akane Ryouko?

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Forgotten Friday #338 - hycuu's 伊草 / Igusa

 I actually have no idea what I should have put as the name of the person behind Igusa. The other choice was Nako.

Forgotten Friday #338 - hycuu's 伊草 / Igusa

Igusa is an old ghost who looks and sounds like a young boy. He is a NEET.

Who is Igusa?

Upscaled art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #328 - Aftloid's Qiqui / 聞良

 whoooo

Wiki Wednesday #328 - Aftloid's Qiqui / 聞良

Qiqui fell through a rift into our reality. She plays saxophone!

Who is Qiqui?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #337 - 片歌睦 / Katauta Mutsumi

 I helped my mom bake Christmas presents today! It's still December 2024 right now.

Forgotten Friday #337 - 片歌睦 / Katauta Mutsumi

He's a guy. There's something about chickens?

Who is Mutsumi Katauta?

Art from Bank 

Wiki Wednesday #327 - Ashley Willows

 I wanna get a diet soda, but I don't want to leave bed. 

Wiki Wednesday #327 - Ashley Willows

Ashley wasn't born. She was created to save the world. She does not like that. She does as much bad as she can just to prove people wrong.

Who is Willows Ashley?

Art from Bank 

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Forgotten Friday #336 - 唯音詩有生 / Tadane Utauwo

 the katakana says ヲ in the reading section. No idea why, but I'll respect it. But I do want to say Tadane Utauo / Utauo Tadane in case anyone is searching with that Romanization. 

Forgotten Friday #336 - 唯音詩有生 / Tadane Utauwo

Utauwo is a twenty-three year old man who has a pet rabbit named Envy.

Who is Utauwo Tadane?

Art from bowlroll

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Wiki Wednesday #326 - Tama Yumeka / 夢歌タマ

 oh no, headaches!

Wiki Wednesday #326 - Tama Yumeka / 夢歌タマ

Tama is a German half-fae teenage boy. He hates horror.

Who is Yumeka Tama?

Art from Bank 

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Forgotten Friday #335 - 枉音ゼロアイ / Magene Zeroai

 I'm behind on my time line!

Forgotten Friday #335 - 枉音ゼロアイ / Magene Zeroai

Zeroai is a young boy who is made of data. He really dislikes ignorant people.

Who is Zeroai Magene?

Art from official site

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Wiki Wednesday #325 - MODEL4 / M4-Amadeo

why does my tooth Hurt?!

Wiki Wednesday #325 - MODEL4 / M4-Amadeo

Model4 is a male android who seems to be around twenty years old. His development was not completed as he escaped from captivity.

Who is MODEL4?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #334 - 枉音シト / Magene Shito

 I'm already sick of my new tester USTs! But I'll have an entire year to make more once this is done...

Forgotten Friday #334 - 枉音シト / Magene Shito

So, Shiro is a girl who doesn't like cats.

Who Is Shito Magene?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #324 - Fuwa Nijine / 虹音フワ

 so close to the halfway point of the year!

Wiki Wednesday #324 - Fuwa Nijine / 虹音フワ

Fuwa is a teenager girl who loves cotton candy and hates Len.

Who is Nijine Fuwa?

Art from wiki

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On Labeling Palatalized Consonants for Japanese

 When it comes to vocal synths, we should strive to remember to just have fun! This article will go in to detail about handling of syllables like "hya" and "kya" in Japanese. If you are happy with how your UTAU or Diffsinger model sings in Japanese, then please ignore this article.

Forgotten Friday #333 - 踊歌ワルツ / Odoruka Waltz

 yeah, it's technically Odoruka Warutsu / Warutsu Odoruka. 

Forgotten Friday #333 - 踊歌ワルツ / Odoruka Waltz

The Visual Archive says that Waltz is a twenty-one year old male plant or animal.

Who is Waltz Odoruka?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #323 - VAWA3 / ВАЊА

I'm tired but I don't want to sleep!

Wiki Wednesday #323 - VAWA3 / ВАЊА

Vanya is a twenty one year old android elf from the future. She likes puppies and kittens!

Who is VAWA3?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #332 - Itsuhoshi_P's sresys / スレシス

 I think there's just one more from this site after this one...

Forgotten Friday #332 - Itsuhoshi_P's sresys / スレシス

Sresys is a three year old girl. But I have no idea if that means that she has the mind of a three year old or if she was manufactured three years ago as her art makes it clear she is not human.

Who Is Sresys?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #322 - CZ-Speaker's Václav

I was going to cover a different utau, but I couldn't download the bank because of a detected virus?!

Wiki Wednesday #322 - CZ-Speaker's Václav

This guy is pretty cool! This 60 year old guy is a jinriki of the railway announcement voice in Prague. At least, that's what I thought from reading the wiki page. This sounds like a regular human recording a regular human bank!

Who is Václav?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #331 - 蒼彩ミラ / Aodori Mira

Will I ever stop feeling tired?

Forgotten Friday #331 - 蒼彩ミラ / Aodori Mira

Mira is a sixteen year old girl who is basically a knight if bing translate is correct. She's good at using swords.

Who is Mira Aodori?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #321 - Blaxiety's LEPA

 the bean paste I made almost turned out well!

Wiki Wednesday #321 - Blaxiety's LEPA

LEPA is a young teenage boy. He identifies with raccoons.

Who Is LEPA?

Art from site 

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Forgotten Friday #330 - 采音メア / Saine Mea

 there's a chance the intended Romanization was Saine Mare / Mare Saine. Not a big one, though.

Forgotten Friday #330 - 采音メア / Saine Mea

Yeah, Mea's back story is meant to be as shocking and Grim as possible. She likes to eat flowers.

Who is Mea Saine?

Art from bank

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Wiki Wednesday #320 - phi_pea's XI

 I'm pretty sure I've never covered this one, but you can't just search for "XI" on here!

Wiki Wednesday #320 - phi_pea's XI

XI is a fifteen year old girl with no canon information.

Who is XI?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #329 - 釆音ヘル / Saine Heru

 I'm eating apple slices!

Forgotten Friday #329 - 釆音ヘル / Saine Heru

Heru was a guy who was working in some kind of military until he was made into an android so that state secrets could be erased from his mind.

Who is Heru Saine?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #319 - Saiko Kutane / サイコクタネ

 so... Tired... But I've done nothing!

Wiki Wednesday #319 - Saiko Kutane / サイコクタネ

Saiko is an internet famous sixteen year old boy who streams himself playing simulation and rhythm games on Twitch.

Who is Kutane Saiko?

Upscaled Art from Bank 

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Forgotten Friday #328 - 棚歌マカロン / Tanaka Macaron

 Technically, the name is Makaron Tanaka / Tanaka Makaron. But you see, Macaron isn't his legal name. He gets called that because of how much he loves macarons. 

Forgotten Friday #328 - 棚歌マカロン / Tanaka Macaron

Macaron is an eighteen year old man who hates people to the point that he always wears a gas mask.

Who is Macaron Tanaka?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #318 - Ai Momoiro / 桃色アイ

 so I figured out why I'm suddenly unwell. Migraines!!

Wiki Wednesday #318 - Ai Momoiro / 桃色アイ

Ai is a virtual singer from 2,000 years in the future. She is non-binary and uses both she and they as pronouns. Her age is somewhere between eighteen and twenty.

Who Is Momoiro Ai?

Art from bank

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Forgotten Friday #327 - 要音ユウミ / Kanamene Yuumi

Sometimes I forget that I'm able to read katakana. I'll read it correctly and then say "but I'm bad at katakana so I'm probably wrong." I check and I was right all along.

Forgotten Friday #327 - 要音ユウミ / Kanamene Yuumi

Yuumi is a seventeen year old who loves beef jerky and hates vegetables. I have no idea what their gender is.

Who is Yuumi Kanamene?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #317 - KANI_FF64EE

I wonder how fast I can get through all of these!

Wiki Wednesday #317 - KANI_FF64EE

In the future, there was an ill-tempered help bot AI. She made into a idol was sent back in time to defeat a certain teal haired hero... If only she hadn't been two decades late!

Who Is KANI_FF64EE?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #326 - 菜野歌ハルノ / Nanoka Haruno

 really tired!

Forgotten Friday #326 - 菜野歌ハルノ / Nanoka Haruno

I think Haruno is a ten year old idol girl but I actually don't know how great Bing Translation is.

Who Is Haruno Nanoka?

Art from official site

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Wiki Wednesday #316 - Nagisa Maeno / 前野なぎさ

 it helps me to think of how much I have left to do in months instead of numbers!

Wiki Wednesday #316 - Nagisa Maeno / 前野なぎさ

Nagisa is an eighteen year old demigirl who uses she or they for pronouns. They are full of hope and optimism!

Who Is Maeno Nagisa?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #325 - 稚葉ツムギ / Wakaba Tsumugi

 nyoom

Forgotten Friday #325 - 稚葉ツムギ / Wakaba Tsumugi

Yeah, this UTAU is probably problematic. Not necessarily for the content; just for the tone.

Who is Tsumugi Wakaba?

Art from official site

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Wiki Wednesday #315 - ZOTTALOID TAMA / 玉

 you gotta remember, sometimes people just straight up lie in recipes you find online.

Wiki Wednesday #315 - ZOTTALOID TAMA / 玉

TAMA is a genderless 17 year old who is based on an egg. His creators use he/him pronouns for him. He has a giant fish plushie and a little yellow duck.

Who Is TAMA?

Art from wiki

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Forgotten Friday #324 - 指音弾 / Sashine Hajiki

Oh look! Happy pi day!

Forgotten Friday #324 - 指音弾 / Sashine Hajiki

Hajiki is a kind man who loves sushi and is great at magic tricks. He has no voice, so he likes to write things down and gesture to communicate with people.

Who is Hajiki Sashine?

Art from bank

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Wiki Wednesday #314 - Umi Kurage / 水母ウミ

 my memory is so bad right now!

Wiki Wednesday #314 - Umi Kurage / 水母ウミ

Umi is a kind fourteen year old who is the reincarnation of a famous pop star.

Who is Kurage Umi?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #323 - Itsuhoshi_P's ぴよ吉 / Piyokichi

 I actually might just start writing more stories for Forgotten Friday before I even finish processing all of these.

Forgotten Friday #323 - Itsuhoshi_P's ぴよ吉 / Piyokichi

If I understand correctly, Piyokichi is a quail. 

Who is Piyokichi?

Photo from bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #313 - VoiceFace's UFO-Chii / UFO-地異

 I'm so tired all of the sudden.

Wiki Wednesday #313 - VoiceFace's UFO-Chii / UFO-地異

Ufo-chii is a comedian from another solar system. They get upset when none of their jokes land. Earth people just can't get the jokes!

Who Is UFO-Chii?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #322 - 黒歌ガク / Kurouta Gaku

 my first day processing these 2025 forgotten Friday articles and I've knocked out two months! If I keep this pace, I could be done by Christmas.

Forgotten Friday #322 - 黒歌ガク / Kurouta Gaku

Gaku is a sixteen year old girl who loves gaming. Her website is up and all of her links work!

Who is Gaku Kurouta?

Art from Bank 

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Trying To Make a Diffsinger G2P Phonemizer Plugin

So, hey guys! I'll just be real with you... I haven't actually gotten this to work all the way to the end. But it was really painful to try and get this all to work so... I'll share my current knowledge with you.

Diffsinger does not need a traditional phonemizer. The timing is all taken care of by the duration model. Technically with a good enough dsdict, you'll be happy with just using the default DIFFS phonemizer. Heck, you can just type phoneme hints and be happy.

But by creating a phonemizer, you are able to make it so that people can type in any word (or nonsense) and get results... Whereas using a dsdict method means that if a word isn't in the dsdict, it just doesn't know what the heck is going on.

There are three ways to make your phonemizer usable as far as I know. The first is by handing it over to the people in charge of OpenUtau for them to put into the newest release. You really wanna make sure it's good before you do that! The second is by recompiling OpenUtau after creating the phonemizer. This would be great for testing, but very annoying to share. The final method is releasing it as a plugin. I feel a little bad I'm writing this before I actually complete the project, but I just keep running into problems that I'm not equipped to handle given I just woke up. 

So, if you're interested in learning how to do this, keep reading!

As a precaution - Anaconda and Visual Studio are pretty hefty. If you have a computer with little hard drive space, you may want to sit this one out because it takes up a lot of space. That's why I've been doing this all on my laptop and not my tablet.

I am a Colab girl. I love Google Colab. However, I was unable to get the Colab that had been provided to work at all... Though shout out to the person behind it because I wouldn't have been able to figure out the correct requirements without it.

Credits:

OpenUtau (and g2p code): Stakira

Google Colab (that I used to figure out the correct requirements): LotteV

Repo to create phonemizer plugin: Tyler (spicytigermeat)

Update 2025/03/05 -

I made it work!!!

Wiki Wednesday #312 - VoiceFace's KIGAI / 危害

 Photosensitivity warning! KIGAI's download page has a flickering background. The contrast is low enough that it doesn't look too dangerous, but I felt motion sickness when it popped up and I didn't expect it.

Wiki Wednesday #312 - VoiceFace's KIGAI / 危害

KIGAI is a dangerous broken Android. He is made of scrap parts.

Who is KIGAI?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #321 - ズキュンズキュン / Zukyunzukyun

 this name makes my dyslexia hurt.

Forgotten Friday #321 - ズキュンズキュン / Zukyunzukyun

So, this one. One of the links in the snapshot of the video description looked like a 404 error. But the link shortener linked to a redirect from a site that no longer exists. The full link that I wanted was in the URL of the error page.

Zukyunzukyun is the galaxy's number one female idol I think?

Who us Zukyun Zukyun?

Art from Bank

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Wiki Wednesday #311 - VoiceFace's Cloter

 ouch, my stomach hurts.

Wiki Wednesday #311 - VoiceFace's Cloter

Cloter is a 43 year old man with anxiety.

Who Is Cloter?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #320 - 樽井もちゅ / Tarui Mochu

 happy valentine's day!

Forgotten Friday #320 - 樽井もちゅ / Tarui Mochu

Mochi is a thirteen year old girl who loves sleeping. What in the heck is even going on with the Japanese internet? The amount of link rot I'm running into here is insane. I had to have a super lucky break to find this bank. I open the readme and it gives me a URL for a website. Super cool!! Maybe Mochu had more banks!

Link rot.

Who is Mochu Tarui?

Art from Bank 

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Help Wanted! Looking for people to record for Diffsinger!

Hey there! 

I love Diffsinger. I love labeling. I love testing hypotheses.

For a lot of vocal synth users, there's an easy solution! Just record your own voice!

Someone who was probably trying to troll commented this on one of my videos: 

Of course I was happy to be told I sound like a woman! I had it made up in my mind that my high range sounded like SpongeBob SquarePants. I don't like Lois's voice, but, you know, girl. (Note: I am a cis woman. When I was younger I basically spoke just like Chris-Chan. I overcorrected really, really hard.)

I'm working on two data sets using my voice because I have the recordings and why not? 

But what I would really like is to find someone to record for me! 

Wiki Wednesday #310 - VoiceFace's Astrid / アストリッド

 I had a rule when I started that I wouldn't just cover all of the utaus in a family in a row because that might get boring. I have fully ignored that rule by now!

Wiki Wednesday #310 - VoiceFace's Astrid / アストリッド

Astrid is a shape-shifting alien who just is enamored by Earth. She generally appears to be around nineteen years old.

Who is Astrid?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #319 - 茨音石榴 / Zakuro Ibarane

 it's not fair to compare these and the utaus I used for the 2025 Wiki Wednesday articles. I was basically searching the wikidot using the term "+cv -vcv" to show me utaus that didn't even have a VCV bank to save time! I can't search the visual archive like that though...

Forgotten Friday #319 - 茨音石榴 / Zakuro Ibarane

Yeah... I am not great at researching when I'm like this. I could look harder maybe. But I don't even know Ibarane's gender.

Who is Ibarane Zakuro?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #309 - VoiceFace's Fuyuki / フユキ

It's best to think of how much I have left to do in terms of months!

Wiki Wednesday #309 - VoiceFace's Fuyuki / フユキ

Fuyuki is a horror themed utau. She has based on the shattered dreams of children. Some of her artwork may be triggering to those who have an aversion to blood.

Who is Fuyuki?

Art from site

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Forgotten Friday #318 - 惑音イド / Madone Ido

 I haven't used the way back machine to recover utaus in a while! It feels really cool to be able to pull it off. 

Forgotten Friday #318 - 惑音イド / Madone Ido

Madone Ido is apparently some kind of female robot who was created very recently in universe. I think I was actually the 123rd person to download her!

Who is Ido Madone?

Art from Bank 

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Wiki Wednesday #308 - VoiceFace's Nemo / ニモ

 progress!

Wiki Wednesday #308 - VoiceFace's Nemo / ニモ

Nemo is genderfluid and has no age. No one knows if they are even human.

Who is Nemo?

Art from official site

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Forgotten Friday #317 - 白音つくね / Shino Tsukune

Making progress!

Forgotten Friday #317 - 白音つくね / Shino Tsukune

Tsukune might be a man.

Who is Tsukune Shino?

Art from official site

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Wiki Wednesday #307 - sukibidi toire / 好き-びでぃ トイレ

 yep.

Wiki Wednesday #307 - sukibidi toire / 好き-びでぃ トイレ

Skibidi Toilet... But girl.

Who is Toire Sukibidi?

Art from wiki

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