Tired of converting Hiragana USTs to Romaji...Help? D:

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

Okay, so I am SO tired of trying to convert hiragana/katakana USTs to romaji. Is there ANY possible way that I don't have to? I know that I heard somewhere if you input the Japanese character into the oto, then you don't have to do it. But I have no idea how to do that. Would somebody be able to tell me how to do it? I'm miserable trying to convert this Daughter of Evil UST! TT^TT

 

[Zelfie Windwalker]

You can alias your oto. I don't have my computer with me to take a screenshot right now, but if you look at your oto, there's a little box to the right of the wav file name where you can input aliases. I'm pretty sure there's an auto-aliaser in the Essential UTAU Toolkit in the downloads section.

Also, make sure your locale is in Japanese

 

[Rai]

Are you trying to convert it note by note? because there's a plugin available that does it for you in the Software and Plugins subforum. The auto-aliaser is a good choice to go with as well though.

 

[theLooneyLibrarian]

Just open the oto and input the corresponding japanese character into the box labeled "Alias".
e.g.: Name: a.wav
        Alias:  あ
Then UTAU will always associate the character あ with the sample a.wav.

 

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

Okay, so I downloaded the Essential Tool Kit...but it's really confusing...Does anyone just have a list of copy-able hiragana characters so that I can alias my UTAU's otos by hand? It seems like it would be much simpler that way XD

 

[IrisFlower]

Attached a file to this post...is that what you're looking for friend? That should have all the hiragana you need and then some. If you're unsure how to read some don't hesitate to ask.

 

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

Attached a file to this post...is that what you're looking for friend? That should have all the hiragana you need and then some. If you're unsure how to read some don't hesitate to ask.

asdf I tried downloading it but when it shows up in the Notepad file it's all gibberish and I can't read it....dknlsghuydbghrbgshbagilo D:

 

[IrisFlower]

Works fine for me...is your locale in Japanese?

 

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

Works fine for me...is your locale in Japanese?

I have no idea what that means....orz

 

[IrisFlower]

That's probably the reason you need to convert to romaji in the first place *cough*

Well...uhh I suck at explaining this stuff so uhh...it's basically essential for running UTAU and other cool Japanese stuff like Touhou games /shot

And if you don't switch your system locale to Japanese you're going to have some problems when using UTAU such as not being able to do much with hiragana USTs or hiragana only VBs.

Here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Change-the-system-locale

EDIT: Oh cheese before I forget...you probably should uninstall UTAU or something before doing that(if you haven't already)...cause you're supposed to switch your locale BEFORE you install UTAU...

 

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

That's probably the reason you need to convert to romaji in the first place *cough*

Well...uhh I suck at explaining this stuff so uhh...it's basically essential for running UTAU and other cool Japanese stuff like Touhou games /shot

And if you don't switch your system locale to Japanese you're going to have some problems when using UTAU such as not being able to do much with hiragana USTs or hiragana only VBs.

Here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Change-the-system-locale

EDIT: Oh cheese before I forget...you probably should uninstall UTAU or something before doing that(if you haven't already)...cause you're supposed to switch your locale BEFORE you install UTAU...

I already have it installed. Should I uninstall and re-install it?

 

[IrisFlower]

Yeah you probably should and see if the Japanese locale helps with reading hiragana.

 

[Asuka]

Alright so it looks like you've gotten Japanese Locale.
I already have that as well, so I guess I can help you a bit.
Well, this is assuming that you have installed correctly and can view UTAU with Japanese characters, rather than gibberish or English.

Spoiler

1. The file name.
2. Alias. This is what you need to focus on.
3. Set. After inputting the hiragana in, click this before clicking any other button.
4. Clear, which obviously clears everything.
5. Duplicate. You don't need to know these.

If you want to delete a file, simply click the button below Duplicate, which is #5.

Now you have a few options as to how you'll be putting in the alias.

Japanese keyboard / Microsoft IME

Spoiler

If you have the Japanese keyboard already installed in your computer, that makes everything easier. If you have Windows 7 like me, there should be an "EN" or "JP" sign at your taskbar. If not, you should install it if you'd like things to go smoothly.

I won't go over how to install it, but you can probably figure things out if you go to your Control Panel then to the Language settings. If not, google it up.

So once you've change your keyboard to Japanese (in Hiragana), you can type in romaji and it will appear in kana. For an example, you can type in "hiragana" and your keyboard will type out ひらがな

1. Make sure that your keyboard is in JP when you have clicked on the white box for alias.
2. Type in whatever phoneme that may be. In my case, it was a. A green "jagged" line will appear under your text. When it is whatever you desired it to be, enter, and the line should disappear.
3. Click Set
4. OK should get you all finished.

Copying and Pasting from an existing UTAU or .UST file
I used Defoko for these just because she's the only other UTAU I have on my computer other than Utaune Nami which doesn't provide their alises in hiragana.

Spoiler

So simply copy the hiragana and paste into your own voicebank. It should work with no problems.

Now my 'a' also has the hiragana for it. And once again, click Set, then OK.

Manually copying from another UTAU's oto.ni
If nothing else works... This works well if your UTAU is still in gibberish as well.
Either way, whether or not you can see hiragana, this is the last-method kind of option.

Spoiler

So after opening your own oto.ni, this is what you should have (with different values, of course). As you can see, I already have the alias filled out. My "a" for example has the following values:

a.wav=あ,21,80,197,0,0

filename.wav=alias,offset,consonant,cutoff,preutter.,overlap

Copy the alias from another UTAU's oto.ni and paste into your own oto.ni.
When you've copied and pasted all of your phonemes, remember to save the oto.ni and re-start UTAU when you're done.

Now when you've opened UTAU again, it should have all of the aliases in hiragana.

Well, those are some of the options I've used before. When I first used UTAU, I copied and pasted the whole oto.ni to my own UTAU's oto.ni before I started modifying the oto.ni itself by Ctrl+G in UTAU, which worked quite well. I didn't have Japanese Locale before, so everything was in gibberish. But the oto.ni itself was in gibberish as well, so either way, I had the symbols that I needed to play each note.

I hope this helps! Good luck.

 

[JoTehDemonicPickle]

Well, those are some of the options I've used before. When I first used UTAU, I copied and pasted the whole oto.ni to my own UTAU's oto.ni before I started modifying the oto.ni itself by Ctrl+G in UTAU, which worked quite well. I didn't have Japanese Locale before, so everything was in gibberish. But the oto.ni itself was in gibberish as well, so either way, I had the symbols that I needed to play each note.

I hope this helps! Good luck.

It worked wonderfully. Thank you so much!!~ <3

 

[Asuka]

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Well, those are some of the options I've used before. When I first used UTAU, I copied and pasted the whole oto.ni to my own UTAU's oto.ni before I started modifying the oto.ni itself by Ctrl+G in UTAU, which worked quite well. I didn't have Japanese Locale before, so everything was in gibberish. But the oto.ni itself was in gibberish as well, so either way, I had the symbols that I needed to play each note.

I hope this helps! Good luck.

It worked wonderfully. Thank you so much!!~ <3
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Glad to be of help