UTAU Glossary
Alias
A secondary name you may set for samples via Voicebank Settings in UTAU. Most often the main sample name will be in hiragana with the alias set to the romaji spelling.
CV
Consonant-Vowel. A type of voicebank recording, best suited to Japanese phonemes. Two phonemes (one consonant followed by one vowel) together make one sound for a CV voicebank, e.g. ka, ki, ku, ke, ko.
CVVC
Consonant-Vowel Vowel-Consonant. A type of voicebank that uses Consonant-Vowel, Vowel-Vowel and Vowel-Consonant recordings.
Flags
Used in UTAU to add effects and adjust the sound a voicebank makes. E.g. the g flag can be used to make the vocals more feminine or masculine.
Hiragana
One of the Japanese alphabets. The characters used most in UTAU, especially with Japanese voicebanks. It looks like this: ひらがな
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Appear as .mid files. Music files that computers can read the sequence of notes within. They can be imported into UTAU.
OREMO
Software developed for recording UTAU voicebanks.
Oto
This refers to the oto.ini file. These are important to make voicebanks function correctly, as they mark where consonants and vowels are. See more in the oto tutorial.
Pitch bend
The wiggly lines that can be seen in the UST. These adjust the pitch of the sample and are used most often to make the vocals more human sounding.
Reclist
A list of sounds to record when making a voicebank. They vary across voicebank types and voicebank languages.
Resampler
The tool in UTAU that generates the vocals based on the UST configurations. There is a default resampler that comes installed with UTAU, but there are also a variety that have been developed since, such as moresampler or fresamp.
UST
UTAU Sequence Text. The files that tell the UTAU software what to do when generating vocals.
UTAU
Software developed by Ameya/Ayame for synthesised singing, similar to Vocaloid. The term is also used in relation to other parts of using UTAU, for example some people call their voicebanks UTAUs.
See the "What Is UTAU?" page for more.
UTAUloid
UTAUloid most often is used to refer to the character associated with a voicebank, although it is also used to refer to the voicebank itself.
VCV
Vowel-Consonant-Vowel. A voicebank type that flows more naturally due to the connecting vowels across notes.
Voicebank
A group of vocal samples that can be used to synthesise singing.
WAV
.wav is an audio file type. Voicebank samples must be saved as this.
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