Talk:UTAU/@comment-27598213-20190108194820/@comment-27598213-20190109002851

Well, just the way I've been thinking about it, with the CV/C/V, I have to record over 250 sounds, and it's the same 9 vowels with the same 25 consonants, so why record 250 sounds when it can be condensed into 34? Plus, adding extra vowels and consonant sounds will be relatively easy if I drop the CV part. I don't quite understand the point of VCV (triphonals), so I'm gonna just avoid making more sounds than necessary.

In terms of languages, I should be okay for the most part, as I'm decent at French and Japanese pronunciations, and French phonetics are very similar to (if not exactly the same as) other romance languages. German's phonetics are different enough (I think) that it'll be difficult to understand.

To address your last point, "But I thought I'd say this because you're skipping on sounds and that could cost you", true, I am technically skipping sounds, but I'm pretty sure that I can make the same sounds just by using the consonants and vowels together to create a CV sound. Idk if anyone understands what I'm saying anymore, so I'm gonna give an example:

In languages that use the latin alphabet, like English, there are 26 letters (21 consonants, 5 vowels), and each letter represents a certain sound, like a vowel or consonant, but in Japanese hiragana, there are 71 (not including small hiragana as seen in きょう), all but a few of which are CV sounds (the consonant exception is ん). However, there are only 14 consonant sounds. Yet, in English, there are more sounds possible than in Japanese. I'm just thinking, why buy cookies from a store when you already have the ingredients and means to make them yourself? It's easier to just have the building blocks (individual letters) than to just have the "finished product" (CV, or hiragana).

To be perfectly honest, this is my first time making an UTAUloid, and I haven't had the chance to use the software yet, so I may change my mind about it once I try it, but for now, I feel like it'd be a waste of time to make all the CV combinations when they can be made while producing.