ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ/Kanogisdi 🎙️🎵

ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ/Kanogisdi (/kʰanoːkiːsti/ 'singing') is a Cherokee UTAUloid, which can be used to create synthesized vocal music in the Cherokee language. Kanogisdi should work with any UTAU-compatible software, but was designed with OpenUtau in mind.

Using Kanogisdi

To get started:

1. Download the latest version of Kanogisdi (Kanogisdi_v0-0-YYYYMMDD.zip) from this repository above, and read the license (LICENSE.md).
2. If you haven't already, download and install OpenUtau
3. Follow the instructions here to install Kanogisdi as a voicebank! (Make sure to select 'UTF-8' as the 'Archive File Encoding')
4. Once installed, select Kanogisdi from the 'Select Singer' button on a track on the left, and choose the 'Default' phonemizer and 'Classic' renderer options
5. ᏘᏃᎩ!

Syllable mapping

For complete syllable mappings, see this chart!

Click here for the ᏣᎳᎩ Syllabary chart with mappings for Kanogisdi

Note: syllabary rows marked with an arrow differ from the usual romanization system in order to better accommodate voiceless equivalents in the full syllable mapping of Kanogisdi (see link above).

Examples

"ᎣᏏᏲ! ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ — ᎢᏓᎴᎾᏭ!"

kanogisdisample.mov

More coming soon!