Talk:UTAU/@comment-35532896-20190825055753/@comment-53539-20190825094128

Actually, most UTAUs aren't that good. There are a number of issues, such as a number of background noises, in westerner cases there is huge pronunciation issues, and generally quality issues from bad mics.

There are few good UTAUs out there and its one of its major let downs. But... If you ask people to identify the Vocaloids who are HQ if they don't know from Vocaloid2, they might say Gackpo, Gumi, Miku, etc. Generally, I find people in this fandom and UTAU don't always know how good things are and presume if they like something its good quality.

UTAUs engine is weaker overall then Vocaloids, and a number of UTAU fans will try and argue otherwise and it can get bitter. They will cherry pick the "best" results, but I've yet to hear a UTAU that you can't hear and separate samples for each sound in. They already do this with certain Vocaloid.

I've recently seen people claim on the Discord that Vocaloid has "no standard" when I've argued that Vocaloids have at least. The person tried to argue Sonika, but thats 2009 conditions. And when people want to win so badly something they begin to make things up for modern Vocaloids. Overall, I do get sick of the UTAU and Vocaloid fandoms fued. As I said, it amounts to two fandoms arguing over noise makers. And as I keep saying, I grew up with the Atari.ST chip, the character "Rotten.ST" is based on from the Chipspeech software.

But look, just because most UTAUs are bad, doesn't mean you still can't make one of your own. So long as you have a mic thats fine. There are tutorials within UTAU hopefully that can let you make one, just take want people make out UTAU to be with a pinch of salt. They want their software to sound good, and they'll lie for UTAU and run Vocaloid down, but remember that Vocaloid fans are also snobs and usually don't give UTAU a chance. You can learn a lot and will appreciate the effort put into synth voicebanks I suspect.