utau and vocaloids!

7/11/2025

Since this is my first ever blog, i decided to just do something fun, so why not talk about one of my current obsessions!

vocaloid

Back when i was 13, during the beginning of covid, i spent way too much time on the internet but thats not what were talking about right now :’|. Anyway, back then i got really into the cutecore/kawaii side of the internet and that domino set of what would be my style for the rest of my teen years. But getting back to vocaloid, i used to listen to quite a bit during the covid years but i didnt know that much about vocaloids aside from miku. Some standout songs i loved during that time where, echo, monster, miku, popipo, etc. even though i didnt know her at the time i loved songs with gumi, to this day i have a sweet spot for her.

Somewhere during the years i picked up a lot more knowledge about vocaloids. Some of my current favorate songs are (list). Bit random but my mom calls miku vegetable girl because she only knows her from just dance 2016 XD.

trying out utau

With all the teto songs coming out lately i decided to give utau a try. I though id download the older porgram because why not. It took me FOREVER to get it working. The first time i tried to download it i opened up a tutorial, but as soon as i went to download japanese on my laptop the power went out!

Ok, next night day 2, i was actually able to download it this time and it worked perfectly, now to download teto. Because i dont speak japanese i had to download her english voicebank, but when i went to open her voicebank in utau it wouldnt show up, it wouldnt even recognize the files where there!? I tried for like 2 hours with no luck before ragquitting and going to bed.

Then day 3 i finally got it. I thought about it all day so by that evening i had an idea of the problem, i realized some of the japanese characters where showing up right, maybe if i fixed that it would work? I found the setting that needed fixing and surprisingly that worked! Im sure you can imagine how my heart sunk though when teto wouldnt read the lyrics i typed. That was an easy fix though i just had to download tetos english voice helper and it worked like a charm! At that point i was too tired to make a song but ether way its at least functioning properly now.

Im hoping at some point to make some music or covers with teto. For now though i think a more attainable goal would be to finally buy some vocaloid merch, how do i not have a miku plush at this point???