use the 1-4 keys to go to different parts of the tutorial this probably sucks but oh well i tried my best. also im not a japanese speaker so some of those pronunciations are probably horrible mainly for @TacoCatPurrito
what i was saying: So I recently got a comment on my Pollyanna renri cover on how good my engrish was and they wanted a tutorial on how I did it so here it is! I could have just described it to them but I suck at doing stuff like that so I think explaining it while showing visuals will be a ton easier for me to teach anyone who wants to know how to do it about it (this is also the first time I’ve ever really written a script for anything so here goes I guess) First thing, you’re gonna wanna open SynthV and choose a Japanese voicebank (obviously). For this, I’m choosing Renri because I literally only ever use her for covers, and I’m using Eight Melodies from MOTHER as a base song. Just a quick warning, I have not used Genbu with my engrish method yet except for one time I switched out renri for genbu in Pollyanna and I cant remember how that ended up so just be ready to change genbu’s settings if you do. Anyway, when doing engrish, I usually write out the sounds in the word that I’m trying to make in sounds that can be said by the Japanese voicebank. In this case, the first word in eight melodies is “take”. So I would do “tai / ke”. Once I check if the voicebank can actually say those sounds, I right-click the note and choose “change to phonemes”. This lets me get rid of the “e” at the end of “ke” and any other sound that isn’t necessary. For words that include letters that aren’t in Japanese, I usually substitute the closest sounding letter for what I’m trying to achieve. “Give”, in this case, would be done as “gi / be” since Japanese has no “v” sound. “R” also substitutes for “L”. Now some extra tips. Never, and I mean NEVER, use “se” as an “s” sound at the end of words. Instead, use “tse”. “Se”, even after the “e” is removed at the end, will still say the “e” sound most of time. However, using “se” anywhere else in the word is fine. Another thing: tuning is not the thing that makes engrish good although it may make it sound better. If we look at Pollyanna, you can see that I barely did any tuning. The key is how the sounds are put together. The third and final tip is, like literally every other talent in the world, practice!!!! Mess around!!!! Don’t use Eleanor for that cover!!!! That’s essentially it for the tutorial. I mostly found out how to do the basics from a Vocaloid2 (or so???) engrish tutorial, and the rest was from experience. I hope the words that fell out of my mouth made some sort of sense and that you use them wisely. Ty for watching.
