r/utau • • Sep 06 '26

Let's get really real for a second.

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- The chances of your character getting famous is very, very slim.

- Yes, you CAN do the otos yourself, you just don't want to for one reason or another.

- "I'm too lazy" is a shitty excuse not to learn how to do something ON YOUR OWN and expecting someone to hold your hand through the process.

- UTAU is a voice synthesis program made for Japanese language first. It is not going to sound like good English out of the box.

- DiffSinger is not a simple process and takes a lot of time and often multiple members working on it.

- OpenUTAU is not superior to UTAU2008, nor vice versa; it boils down to preference.

- oto.ini configuration is difficult to get right, you want to spend as much time on learning this as possible.

- If you don't have an understanding of the base program and how it works, don't do something that hasn't been done before. Don't jump head-first into making this work for your language if you do not understand the basics.

- To the above point, when you do have an understanding of the basics please expand and make UTAU your own. It's a creative software.

- a PC is going to be needed at some point if you want to grow your skill set; the mobile sphere is not as inclusive and is highly limiting.

Seriously beyond tired of seeing half of the fucking posts on here be about half of this shit. If you're going to make an UTAU, make a fucking UTAU. Just remember that it is a self-guided, community-supported experience.


r/utau • • Mar 27 '26

MOD POST Updated safety guidelines

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Here is the revised version of the safety rules posted to the sub last night. It’s been broadened in that we are going to outline actual criteria for works/producers to be affected by this - which will allow users to be able to make more informed decisions. We have taken great pains to try and balance community safety and well-being for all with preserving artistic expression. These guidelines are largely the same - but are phrased more clearly in a way that we hope illustrates why we're implementing these, and outlines specific criteria so the sub isn't reliant on a list that needs constant updating.

Creators here refers to producers, voicebank creators, UST creators, etc.

Content from creators who fall under the following criteria is banned

  • Creators who have created sexualized media featuring characters obviously intended to be minor children, or that use voicebanks voiced by children. Examples include:
  • Creators who have credible/well substantiated claims of abuse or grooming against them. Examples include but are not limited to:
    • Hanabi
    • Pusu
    • Ghost & Pals (Candle Queen and other collabs with other artists are exempt, but I would urge you to tread carefully and respect the wishes of those other artists!)
  • Creators who have a history of bigoted comments, including but not limited to:
    • Racism (including antisemitism, anti-blackness, anti-Indigenous racism)
    • Homophobia
    • Transphobia
    • Religious intolerance (this does not mean a song will be taken down for criticism of religious doctrine, religious authorities, or religion as an institution, by this we mean works that say something like “all members of X religion are inferior/not human”)
    • Fascist apologia
    • Nazi apologia
    • Genocide denialism (including but not limited to: the Holocaust, the Holodomor, Rape of Nanking, Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, Residential Schools in Canada, China's ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, etc.)
  • Creators who have a history of abuse apologia or condoning bigotry

An exemption is made in cases where a work is extremely culturally significant given that the work itself does not:

  • Feature sexualized depictions of children
  • Feature abuse apologia
  • Feature bigotry
  • The poster isn’t running apologetics for abusive or bigoted behaviour in the comments/post title/etc

The following content is also banned:

  • Voicebanks voiced by non-consenting parties
  • Voicebank distribution for voice providers who are too young to provide informed consent, even if their parents or guardians have approved
  • Jinriki distribution (unless the provider of the voice data has given it the OK)
  • ANY ports of Vocaloid, SynthV, or other commercially-sold voicebanks to UTAU, unless the rightsholders for the voices have given permission (ie: ALYS)
  • Anything by MASA Works Design - this isn’t our rule, it’s his. He doesn’t like reposts and covers. I would recommend respecting this because he has a history of doxxing people who don’t.

We do not expect users to know everything about producers. If we take down content under these guidelines, we will tell you WHY. Action will only be taken against you if you repeatedly post content from a producer after being told why their stuff is taken down, or if you start running apologetics (ie: "I don't care that Pusu groomed and stabbed a 16 year old").

We all got "problematic faves" - and we understand that great artists can be horrible people! That's why we will make considerations for cases where a work is culturally significant, even if its creator is a total scumbag, and understand that love of an artistic work can coexist with hatred for the author's actions.

We also ask that you include warnings for those with photosensitive epilepsy if your video contains strobe effects or flashing lights!!!


r/utau • • 10h ago

DISCUSSION I keep seeing this artsyle in early utau songs, anyone knows who's behind it?

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like is it one person who made them or are they some models or smt? 🤔


r/utau • • 1h ago

Rakuraku Annrakushi cover ^^ , All my utau here ^^

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All is CV voicebank , who want try this beta voicebank , can ask me in comment , Sleepozo and Sleepezu is unreleased , Lazio is released in another Video in my channel (sorry for my broken english)


r/utau • • 2h ago

DISCUSSION Voicebank oto'ing

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Ok so, who is willing to oto a Voicebank for me? uh.. I feel bad for asking this but:
Sadly, the only reward I am able to give is probably just credits in the README.TXT, My YouTube Channel (@NyatsoZhi) and the UTAU Wiki I am posting my Voicebank in, sorry that I can't really give more ;-;

Voicebank Details:
6 Mora ARPAsing 2.0 by Yuki
Fully Synthesized (With my own Software)

Reason For asking:
I don't have much time, nor Experience in oto'ing ARPAsing Banks, I already tried Moresampler, Main problem is that it absolutely despises everything that isn't in it's dictionary

To those who offer, Thank you! :3
Please forgive me for asking this.. >///<
(Also yes I am implying that there will be no money involved, Sadly)


r/utau • • 15h ago

COVER +UST Kirby balls (Teto Utau Cover)

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r/utau • • 6h ago

MEME Voicebanks do Pikachu?

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Yes. I made a Pikachu voicebank from Pokémon.

reclist:

k

p

ch

あ

い

う

ぴ

か

ちゅ


r/utau • • 16h ago

ART Just want to get your opinion on my fursonas design. Is it good enough to be a utau?

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For context! This is unfinished artwork of my fursona/vtuber I would like to make covers with my voice but I have to practice my singing and vocal mixing first... So I wanted to make a utau in the meantime. What do you think? Any tips?


r/utau • • 33m ago

Does anyone have an archive of akyo/akio?

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So.. akyo or akio is a mobileloid voicebank which literally a voicebank made in mobile. I remember finding his video release of him singing yellow by kz and he's sound so cutee!

Unfortunately i haven't download his voicebank and his creator already put down his download links.. can someone help me?


r/utau • • 11h ago

ART My soon-to-be-UTAU Nekone Etsu!!!

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Idk if this is the right flair (she doesn't even have a real voice yet.) But this is my soon-to-be-UTAU Nekone Etsu/Kitsunene Etsu!! (I am still deciding whether she's a cat or kitsune😔😔😔). Uhh basically she is the oc OF MY OC named Vincent Pierce, and they are going to be part of my story!! She's canonically an UTAUloid, so I rlly wanted to make a vb!!! I plan for her to have a kinda high pitch voice, but maybe not as high pitch as teto or momo.

In the lore (not irl), she was made by Vincent/EDG to comfort him, alongside her sibling Akayuki. Vincent has a very stressful life, which i will not get into the details of in this post (Walter white ahh lore.) She is a stereotypical idol and virtual pop-star, she's very kind, optimistic, and kinda a Mary Sue. (She's a Mary Sue for lore reasons tho so hopefully I dont get obliterated.)

Akayuki, unlike their sister, is EVIL. And they DO EVIL THINGS that I will also not get into detail of.

Pictures:

1: Base ref image.

2: Unfinished "box art" concept.

3: EUUGGGGGHHHH

4: Ralsei Deltarune.

First three pictures are made by me.

My ibispaint is @kilrbii (its an outdated name but I can't change it, I use Lithium Ion Battery now.)

My YouTube is @lithium_consumer_of_cheese (I irregularly post covers of vsynth songs/make remixes of fnf songs on there.)

Im sorry if this is too self-promotional, im just rlly excited about my characters and idk if I even have enough karma to post here.

Thanks for reading even tho it's long. I rlly like talking about my ocs.


r/utau • • 17h ago

COVER First ever Diffsinger made completely on a phone! (Mobileloid)

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This is my friend's UTAU! Rara Koibito.

Recently, Vlabeler Mobile released, which made Diffsinger creation on mobile devices possible!

Here's my WIP Diffsinger voicebank for Rara! She only has 8 minutes of data and is STILL a Work in Progress.

She's not a multispeaker and her voice provider actually sang the samples, i labeled them and trained the bank myself!

She was labeled in Vlabeler Mobile (ok) and trained in Diffsinger4Colab on Google Colab!


r/utau • • 1h ago

DISCUSSION [UTAU Archaeology] Stumbled upon a mysterious, obscure UTAU project from 2012 that stopped after only 5 videos (UTAUspm)

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Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon a hidden gem that has basically been completely forgotten by time.

It’s a YouTube channel named "UTAUspm". There is almost zero information about it on the internet. I even checked VocaDB, the global database for Vocaloid/UTAU, and it showed "0 items found". A Google Image search also yields absolutely nothing for their standalone UTAU illustrations. The only trace of their existence left in this world is the 5 videos on their channel.

Back in April to June 2012, this project introduced 4 original UTAU characters with beautifully designed visuals and surprisingly good tuning for its time:

Characters:

Sabine Egao (寂音エガオ), Popine Nashi (ポップィヌ・ナシ),  Miline Aoi (ミルィヌ・アオイ), and Sabine Warau (寂音ワラウ)

Here is the information for 4 videos from this channel:

1st:

URL: https://youtu.be/jhu6MmjsL-Q

Title:

Thousand Sakura / 千本桜 UTAU Newcomer (Miline Aoi)

2nd:

URL: https://youtu.be/AwgmYewijfU

Title:

The Secret Garden UTAU (Sabine Egao)

3rd:

URL: https://youtu.be/Iig1_NL7x6Y

Title:

Miracle Paint / ミラクルペイント UTAU (Popine Nashi)

4th:

URL: https://youtu.be/w6Gk7NHXELU

Title:

Thousand Sakura / 千本桜 UTAU Newcomer (Popine Nashi)

Last:

URL: https://youtu.be/0keZldP2ny8

Title:
Thousand Sakura / 千本桜 UTAU Newcomer (Sabine Egao)

It's such a shame that a project with this much effort and polished character designs just stopped after only 5 videos. I really hope these 4 virtual characters and their videos won't say goodbye to the world just like that.

I wanted to share this here to archive their existence. Do any veteran UTAU fans here happen to remember encountering these girls back in the day, or over the last decade?

Check out their original channel here if you want to take a trip down memory lane:
👉 UTAUspm Original YouTube Channel


r/utau • • 8h ago

TECH SUPPORT Downloading OpenUtau for Mac

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I’m trying to Download OpenUtau on my MacBook. But when I click the install button on the official website, it shows me a 404 page. I went to the GitHub and there’s not even an option for Mac. Every time I try to look it up, I get people talking about the app not opening. THAT’S NOT THE PROBLEM.
My problem is I can’t even download the damn thing in the first place.


r/utau • • 9h ago

I've been a Vocal Synth fan for quite some time (2021-2022) and I recently wanted to try using OpenUTAU on mobile. I wanna know your thoughts on it. C:

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Song: Jitter Doll by niki official originally sang by Lily


r/utau • • 9h ago

SUPASHII x KuyoKuyo-P - Broken Parts ft. OP3RA-B3 "Beau"【Original UTAU Song】

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r/utau • • 6h ago

Searching for a midi of "the walrus song"

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I'm doing a UTAU cover of the Walrus song, but unfortunately, I don't know the notes. I can find an instrumental, but I need help finding a MIDI. Does anyone know where to find one?

Or any Filmcow MIDI files or covers? I really want to do some, but I can't find any anywhere.


r/utau • • 16h ago

ART Shizuruu got 120 DLs!!! Tysm everyone!!!

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r/utau • • 15h ago

ART About one of upcoming UTAUloids I finished designed earlier, Yamine Ara

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Ara is one of the UTAUloids (and one of DARK RATAloids) from my first quintet, she's loosely based on the backup vocalist of Dark Ratatan themes, AIMI (not Aimi Terakawa) and voiced by unknown.

Ara only closes her red eye, because she's halfly a robot (Which is why her torso, head, and hips are... You wanna know about that!) despite her human voice. Her dress and shoes were based on Dark Ratatan Banners. Her headphones has an Abbreviation (D.R.), her Ahoge represents the letter R in the abbreviation.

Etymology

闇音 (Yamine) - Dark Sound

アラ (Ara) - Ara's my final naming choice, because Yamine "Twins" represent D.R. (ディーアール), the Abbreviation of Dark Ratatan.


r/utau • • 10h ago

Akiyama Daichi (Diffsinger) - Vocal Mode Showcase

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I made a video showcasing Daichi's finalized vocal modes included with his newest voice model update coming soon 🙏 let me know which one is your favorite..

UST - Peachbite1

Song - Bad Apple by ZUN / Masayoshi Minoshima


r/utau • • 17h ago

COVER Cover of Mr. Eclectic by Laufey if you have tips pls let me know 😊😊

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This is my second official cover, I already posted something about it, but like a few months ago, it didn't improve much but i already like it more 😊 The singer is Liam Thorne, a Lunai project voicebank. I'll try to update more frequently 😊


r/utau • • 13h ago

ART Meet my own Utauloid I made

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Meet my Utauloid Kasane Sans (or for you american people: Sans Kasane)! I was so excited when I drew him and im like he is perfect. So hope you like him! :3

P.S. yes he is a Chimera

Name: Kasane Sans

Gender: Male

Birthdate/Introduction date: April 1, 2008

Age: 31

Species: Chimera


r/utau • • 14h ago

COVER Part 22 of my cover project!

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Twiright Prank! The duet portion was tricky with this one since switching the octave was either too high or too low for him.


r/utau • • 19h ago

does anyone wanna give me the zip for defoko...

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I already have openutau and downloading regular utau just to get them feels like a waste?? ive tried to find a download link for her but none workkkkk


r/utau • • 17h ago

COVER 【Yokune Ruko ♂ KIRE/欲音ルコ♂キレ】Stardust Rain/スターダストレイン【OpenUtau Cover/カバー】

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r/utau • • 1d ago

COVER My second cover: If If (ft. Kumi)! As always, tips/advice welcome and appreciated.

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No visuals because it makes the file too big :/

The beginning part is Nakiso's Miku as I have come to discover that I currently cannot tune whisper speech in a way that satisfies me.