What is the easiest way to make a voice bank in Chinese?

[heynotloid]

I talk about easy methods or recipes for people who don't have much contact with Chinese and its pronunciation.

 

[SaKe]

CVVChinese probably has the most resources on it and you can easily find a pinyin pronunciation guide, but I believe YukitoYuki's rentan CV reclist is the shortest.

 

[SunnyWolves]

Well, you're going to have to learn pronunciation any way you slice it, but you can possibly use dong fang zhi zi's cv reclist, which was decent when I used her voicebanks.

 

[heynotloid]

Well, you're going to have to learn pronunciation any way you slice it, but you can possibly use dong fang zhi zi's cv reclist, which was decent when I used her voicebanks.

CVVChinese probably has the most resources on it and you can easily find a pinyin pronunciation guide, but I believe YukitoYuki's rentan CV reclist is the shortest.

where can i get that reclist? And yes, I know that I will obviously have to learn the pronunciations, (I also don't know where to find the one used in Dong Fang Zhizi)

 

[SunnyWolves]

You can just read Zhizi's, samples can't you?

 

[SaKe]

where can i get that reclist? And yes, I know that I will obviously have to learn the pronunciations, (I also don't know where to find the one used in Dong Fang Zhizi)

CVVChinese I believe requires you to have a Lofter account to access but you can probably find a reupload somewhere. This is a fantastic directory for finding reclists.

 

[heynotloid]

You can just read Zhizi's, samples can't you?

I don't think they are in pinyin, and my PC tends to corrupt Chinese characters.

 

[Kiyoteru]

CVVChinese has been succeeded by these reclists, which are still written in pinyin and are presamp compatible. For people unfamiliar with Mandarin I would recommend choosing one of the 3 syllable reclists in the bundle, so that you can focus on getting the pronunciation right.

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[heynotloid]

CVVChinese has been succeeded by these reclists, which are still written in pinyin and are presamp compatible. For people unfamiliar with Mandarin I would recommend choosing one of the 3 syllable reclists in the bundle, so that you can focus on getting the pronunciation right.

Hr.J式CVVC中文录音方案介绍

关于Hr.J式CVVC中文录音表的说明。

utaujc.jimdofree.com

Always being a lifesaver Kiyoteru, what would we do without you?

 

[dead_byte]

Unfortunately, there’s really no easy way to record for Chinese if the user isn’t already familiar with it. Mandarin Chinese is a particularly esoteric language with a lot of unusual combinations of sounds that don’t appear in many other languages. It’s not as phonetically simple as say, Japanese, Spanish, or Korean, and it will almost certainly require some practice before recording, regardless of what format you use.

To actually answer your question - CV Chinese would almost certainly be easiest. Despite its relative phonetic complexity, it is a CV-esque language like Japanese, and CV Chinese would only require you to record each syllable only once per pitch. If you understand the pronunciation, it should be pretty short and compact to record.

Other than that, the only other major method is CVVChinese, which is generally a pretty beefy format, and probably not the best to start with. There’s also VCV Chinese, which is, frankly, a bit impractical for most cases, due to its absurd size.

Not to self-advertise, though I also had been working on my own format for Chinese too, that I still intend to release eventually. It’s a relatively short list that’s in-between CVVChinese and CV Chinese in terms of length and difficultly. It’s pretty much complete, and I also wrote and included a pronunciation guide for it catered to non-Chinese speakers, if that interests you.

 

[heynotloid]

Unfortunately, there’s really no easy way to record for Chinese if the user isn’t already familiar with it. Mandarin Chinese is a particularly esoteric language with a lot of unusual combinations of sounds that don’t appear in many other languages. It’s not as phonetically simple as say, Japanese, Spanish, or Korean, and it will almost certainly require some practice before recording, regardless of what format you use.

To actually answer your question - CV Chinese would almost certainly be easiest. Despite its relative phonetic complexity, it is a CV-esque language like Japanese, and CV Chinese would only require you to record each syllable only once per pitch. If you understand the pronunciation, it should be pretty short and compact to record.

Other than that, the only other major method is CVVChinese, which is generally a pretty beefy format, and probably not the best to start with. There’s also VCV Chinese, which is, frankly, a bit impractical for most cases, due to its absurd size.

Not to self-advertise, though I also had been working on my own format for Chinese too, that I still intend to release eventually. It’s a relatively short list that’s in-between CVVChinese and CV Chinese in terms of length and difficultly. It’s pretty much complete, and I also wrote and included a pronunciation guide for it catered to non-Chinese speakers, if that interests you.

I'll wait, since I'd like to get a good voice bank in Chinese on October 1st, which is the date of China's independence.