Updates on that last reclist thing I talked about, I think

First off, I wrote it, in full (probably). But there's a bit more to it than "I wrote it", I did a lot more than just that. I wrote it in such a way that you could oto it like TCVVC AND use a base oto + a guide bgm on 95% of it, like the fucking maniac I am. Not just that, but I included significantly more consonant clusters, because it's small enough to do that now. It is 362 recordings long, last I checked. I am currently doing chain recording testing.

Horrifying caveats

Cool now that you all think it's good based off of the post preview, I can deliver the cold, hard truth: the reclist itself is not finished yet, particularly the single-recording section, which is about 87 recordings probably. This part is particularly hard to complete because I literally just have to be like, while using a voicebank "damn I really wish I had this particular vowel combination / consonant ending", which is difficult because I hate thinking.

I also have no idea how well the "dd" consonant is gonna work with cv because, well, it only sounds good sometimes in cv in Japanese, and even only sounds decent w/ my semi-vcv shit after like extensive testing. BUT to be fair, I did manage, after a lot of work, to make it sound good in both scenarios in recent times by simply not being afraid of the transitional vowel. Here's some examples I guess?

With UrinList (CVTC):


And with TCVVC English (the segmented reclist, which I wanna phase out of):

I also desperately want to add a massive set of consonants because I realized every syllable sounds like the start of a word because of how English consonant tensing/laxing works (and my reclist does not accommodate for this much).

Also, I accidentally lied about it taking a long time. It did not take a long time. It took, like, 2 hours and me being incredibly manic. This probably does not count as a "horrifying caveat" but probably none of this does, because I'm talking about something so trivial that probably only 3 people including myself are gonna see it.

A singular drop of good news i think

The parts I think aren't finished aren't going to be hard to add.

TCVVC compatibility is so tight I could literally make a tool to convert the aliases. You'd still have to oto but you'd have, like, a dupe oto of the starting consonant, you probably couldn't even tell if you had changed it or not when mixed into a song (should probably count as a bad thing tbh), unless you're particularly attentive. Doing this would also definitely not break the oto limit for a voicebank with under 9 pitches, probably more even, but I'm math illiterate so please don't get your hopes up lol.

Anyways

I don't have any more real updates on this. Wish I had a solid example of what I'm doing, but all I have is the reclist itself, which is very untested outside of the Japanese version already being released (unless I forgot lmaooo) and working like perfectly fine, and the much larger, more segmented version of this reclist is stupidly good-sounding.

Also, I hope the start of your year is going well (hopefully better than mine)!