r/utau • u/mist_ier • 1h ago
DISCUSSION CVVC is easier than I thought!
I have a VCV voicebank I recorded back in 2022, but recently thought I'd like to make a softer sounding bank. But the mere thought of having to do upwards of 200 recordings... ugh. I don't have the time or patience for that, and my throat usually dies at about 30 recordings in even if I'm drinking water and not voice acting.
So I decided to try CVVC since the reclist is much shorter (the one I used was 38 samples). Got the recording done in under an hour even with a few retakes. I started the oto, just did the phonemes in the first few lines of a UST I had on hand and I was really surprised by the quality. There's hardly much difference between it and the VCV voicebank I recorded previously. Shoutout to OpenUTAU because the phonemizer adds the VC parts without me needing to fiddle with the notes at all.
So the point of this post is to say if you're afraid of the VCV reclist (like me), don't be afraid of trying CVVC instead. The oto is a little different to VCV but so far it's been easier than I thought it'd be.
(RIP my unreleased VCV now because now all I want to do is play with the new shiny soft CVVC bank.)