Kouga-P

I’m an UTAU producer who makes lots of voicebanks! Email me at kouga-p@proton.me if you have any questions or need help!

In order to start making a DeepVocal voicebank, you need 2 (deepvocal-related) programs. DeepVocal (DV), and DeepVocal ToolBox (DVTB). DV is for using/testing voicebanks, DVTB is for making and configuring them. They are only available on Windows.

Both of these programs can be found on DeepVocal’s homepage.

Additionally (while not technically necessary), I strongly recommend using RecStar to record the audio files, following the reclist. This can be downloaded off of RecStar’s GitHub page.

Note: All of these instructions assume that you’re on Windows, since that’s the only platform that DV and DVTB can run on. To install RecStar on other platforms, consult its documentation.

DeepVocal Installation

  1. Select “Download” from the website’s homepage, then click the download button under “DeepVocal Editor”
  2. Extract Setup_DeepVocal_beta_2.1.0.zip and run Setup_DeepVocal_beta_2.1.0.exe
  3. Follow the installer’s directions. This tutorial assumes that it is installed in the default location (C:\Program Files (x86)\DeepVocal), but if needed you can change it.
  4. If the DeepVocal editor opened on its own, close it. To change the default language from Chinese to English, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\DeepVocal\config in the file explorer and open app.cfg in a text editor (I use Notepad++, but Windows Notepad will work fine). This is basically the application’s persistent settings page. Edit the line that starts with "langFilePath" to say "langFilePath" : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\DeepVocal\\language\\English.txt" (or change the path to the correct path, if you installed somewhere else). Make sure to save the file, then you can open DeepVocal and verify that the language is set correctly. This can also be done by running DeepVocal.exe as administrator and changing it through the GUI (首选项 (Preferences) -> 语言设定(language)... (Language) -> English -> 确定 (Confirm)), then restart the program (doesn’t need to be run as administrator)
  5. Done! You can now close the DeepVocal editor.

DeepVocal ToolBox Installation

  1. Select “Download” from the website’s homepage, then click the download button under the “DeepVocal ToolBox”
  2. Extract Setup_DeepVocalToolBox_beta_2.1.0.zip and run Setup_DeepVocalToolBox_beta_2.1.0.zip
  3. Follow the installer’s directions. This tutorial assumes that it is installed in the default location (C:\Program Files (x86)\DeepVocalToolBox), but if needed you can change it.
  4. The software will open by default. It will be a single bar with some options. You can ignore it for now since there are no changes that need to be made (from what I can tell, English is the only language option).
  5. Done! You can now close the DeepVocal ToolBox.

RecStar Installation

  1. On RecStar’s GitHub page, select the “releases” tab (on the right side) image-center (handy diagram)
  2. Under the release labelled Latest, click and download recstar-x.x.x-win-64.zip from its Assets
  3. Extract recstar-x.x.x-win64.zip, then move the recstar-x.x.x-win64 folder to somewhere memorable, such as the desktop.
  4. Open the folder and run RecStar.exe.
  5. Since this is a portable application, you will not need to do any installation. All recordings, however, are saved in C:\Users\[User]\RecStar\sessions\[reclist name][date and time].
  6. Done! You can close the program.

Now you’ve installed everything you need!

Next Step: Recording