I had to borrow a Mac to figure this one out. Try putting the file in your HOME folder and then pointing to it in the input box, e.g., "/Users/username/input.txt" - or if you put it in your Documents folder, "/Users/username/documents/input.txt"
.Thanks for your suggested solution. It works! Thank you for creating the script. I guess I should learn how to write scripts myself they can be real timesavers.I had to borrow a Mac to figure this one out. Try putting the file in your HOME folder and then pointing to it in the input box, e.g., "/Users/username/input.txt" - or if you put it in your Documents folder, "/Users/username/documents/input.txt"
The downside on a Mac is this version won't save your config, so you'll need to do that each time. I'm working on an updated version of the script now, and I'll try to make it more Mac-friendly.
You could try using ChatGPT to help you get started on a first draft of a script.
For the record, this worked and Mai has the dictionary. Being originally Japanese, she pronounces the “Spanish” phonemes much better than Solaria, who has a heavy English accent on many of them. However, I didn’t try much text yet, plus I am a newbie with Synth V. (Spanish is my main language, by the way…)The dictionary is made for cross language Japanese, yes, but it's made for Solaria, an English voicebank, so it was put into the "english-arpabet" folder because that's where native English voices look for dictionaries. If you create a "japanese-romaji" folder and put it there it'll show up for Japanese voicebanks as well, because that's the folder where native Japanese voices will look for dictionaries
Writing this out, I realize this might be something that can be improved in future versions of the program. Make it so it will also look in the folder of the currently selected language, instead of only the native language of the voicebank. This would only work for whole track cross language synthesis, of course, and not for note based one, but still.
@LenKiMo (I hope you don't mind tagging you), do you think this would be a good addition?
I tend to agree, from my initial, newbie, tests with Solaria and Mai using the Solaria Spanish dictionary. A syllabic dictionary should work better.
Small update on Synth-V in Spanish.
In summary I don't know the reasons but... to get some results the recipe is this:
-Use Solaria or Kevin set to Japanese
-Put dictionary SOLARIA_JPN-_ESP in folder ...Documents\Dreamtonics\Synthesizer V Studio\dicts\english-arpabet (not a typo! putting it in japanese-romaji does not work!!!).
-Select THIS dictionary.
-Enter lyrics in plain Spanish, separated by (normal Spanish) syllables.
-Results have some "mild English accent", but not bad at all in most cases:
-Strong "RR" sound --> definitely not native!
-"J" --> Not native, not bad.
-"Z" --> Not from Spain, but latin accent ("seseo"), but other than this it works in 95% of the phonemes.
In a short test I used a random text:
"Lo siento, pero como modelo de lenguaje entrenado no tengo acceso a información en tiempo real sobre personas específicas"
Some phonemes have some accent (that can be corrected later up to a point), but they are ALL correct with the exception of "personas". The dictionary says it shoudl be pronounced as "p er s ax n ax z" but for some reason the last "z" is missing (!!), and Kevin sings "persona" in singlular. Why? No idea. But it is just 1 exception (see below)
And this is Kevin singing the stupid melody with the non-sense lyrics. Without ANY correction at all. I think it is a good starting point.
Veredict: It works... up to a point, I have no idea about the behaviour respect the location of the dictionary and I do not have high hopes to improve accent automatically because japanese does not contain the missing phonemes. I hope I can improve manually the missing / wrong phonemes.
Aaah, let me see if I understand this. There will be a problem even if I managed to have Mai “see” the Spanish Dictionary: Solaria sings in Japanese using her English phonemes, and presumably uses them also for Spanish. But Mai has Japanese phonemes (which she also uses to sing in English). So the Solaria dictionary will ask her to use (English) phonemes she doesn’t have. Am I interpreting this correctly?
I've updated the version of the script in the original post. It should handle Macs okay now, as well as a couple more features.
Not quite, the dictionary is originally made for Solaria, a native English library, but it's only useable if you set the voicebank to sing in Japanese via the cross-language feature. The Japanese cross language feature will use Japanese phonemes (albeit accented if you use a non-native Japanese voicebank), so if you put the dictionary in the japanese-romaji folder it will work for native Japanese voices like Mai, and it should theoretically have a more Japanese accent since Mai is a native Japanese voicebank.
For some reason I cannot use Solaria dictionary with Mai (it does not matter where I put it), so this logical and sensible approach does not work for some (non logical or sensible) reason.
That's weird, if you put the dictionary into the japanese-romaji folder it should show up for all native Japanese voicebanks. What does your folder setup look like? It should look like this:
I've just tried. What you say makes sense, but reality (at least in my installation) is a bit different. And as I said, real behaviour makes no sense:
Hi Adagio-if I understand your question correctly, you can already do that. Copy your lyrics to the clipboard, right click on any note and "insert lyrics" (I think that's it; don't have the app available right now). It will spread them out over the ensuing notes, breaking them on spaces. If you add - or + between the pasted lyrics, it will span notes with a single syllable, or will break break the words on syllables respectively
Thank you!
