Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Video made in Vizzy.io
Utan by @hataori301
Song originally by Sammi Cheng

I've had this almost ready to post for what feels like eons! (Started in May of 2023, was almost finalized on August 30th, 2023) I gave up because I needed to fix a few samples and I had it in my mind that the bank was finished, so I couldn't do that. I could do that, and I did that to finish this cover!

I went to a lot of effort to have really cool vertical lyrics, but I couldn't get them to work… so I gave up and just threw this together.

Part of the reason I never bothered to finish this was because I didn't see much of a point. Utan has been abandoned and I've moved on…

Until Diffsinger. I thought it was over for Utan! But I realized something. I am obsessed with languages that I'll never speak. I want to make a Cantonese Diffsinger bank! But… I don't know anyone who would record for me… so this is where HiuGaai here comes into play!

I don't want a perfect Diffsinger bank, I just want a proof of concept to show that those languages work (and maybe pander to the people who love robotic voices). HiuGaai’s Utan bank sounds realistic enough to me that I think it will be decent enough!

This means that I'll need to make several more covers with her! Like, at minimum five. And then it will just be a hop skip and a jump to use my textgrid to lab script :)