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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