what dialect of japanese are our utaus singing in?

just wondering is there a certain kind or not...

i'm guessing Western Kanto, only because Tokyo is in the dialect area...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_dialects

Dialect refers to a style of speaking.
So we use any dialect.
Japanese people pronounce all of their syllables the exact same; it's how they abbreviate words or what syllables they use for certain kanji that vary.

The only language I can think of that distinctly uses a different pronunciation for dialects is Chinese, and even then that's only for intonations (which are lost in singing).

Well, there's KansaiJin, but that's just pretty much using different wording that makes them seem, to somewhat of an equivalent to, our "southern" accent. I think Scarf said something about Kasui being KansaiJin xD;; I mean look at his ~speech~ but anyway.

Just standard Japanese. With accent. Cause we are engrreshh.

just wondering because i know other languages, like english some of thier dialects are different, like most Californian english speakers don't distinguish between /ɔ/ and /ɑ/.

No, we do. O.o
And like I said, dialects rarely apply to pronunciation.

Ohh! You mean accents, right? Well, I guess it would mostly depend on where the voicer is from.

Yeah, if you mean accents, it depends on the country.

Hana has a weird mix of American and Korean. More Korean, though, since I intentionally tried to channel my Korean self through her when recording her Japanese

Yuugi has my weird dialect, whuch is a mix between Dutch, English and Arabic... And some Japanese.

Let's call it smeenlish.

English with small hints of a Queen's English dialect... ;w;

I don't know ._.

Japanese...but I think they have a weak Japanese accent T_T

Spanish has a very similar pronunciation compairing with Japanese...so I guess Kata is like...standard Japanese with some Chilean hints?....XD

Indeed, Spanish has similar "r" sounds to Japanese.

Aster Selene wrote:Indeed, Spanish has similar "r" sounds to Japanese.

yeah, exactly ^^ the soft "r" is the similar one.

And the "H" is like in English... T__T The most difficult sounds class for me ! x_x"

MillyAqualine wrote:And the "H" is like in English... T__T The most difficult sounds class for me ! x_x"

yeah ^^ the Japanese "h" is the Spanish "j", but only in some countries. In Chile we don't pronounce the "j" like that.
Japanese "h" can be compared with the Russian "х" because both are "aspirated"....I can't explain it well ^^;

Ah ok (anyway, I record also jota for Spanish sounds xD)

...I learned to pronounce japanese completely from Korean sounds. EVEd+

あ = 아
い = 이
う = between 우 and 으
え = either like 애 or 에
お = 오 with the lips farther apart

And the "z" consonant that japanese has that korean doesn't-- I pronounce it like a lazy ㅈ. ㅎvㅎ+

I learned a lot of my pronunciation from Korean karaoke bars.
When they play Japanese songs, they show a han'gul transliteration on top to match up.

Notably, か is actually 까. I expected this, though.

Something about つ and ち - are they the same as 투 and 티? I think they are. I'm not sure. I know ふ is the same as 후 though. However I see Korean transliterating it as 쭈 and 치 (at least in some cases). So it confuses me sometimes.

(As a result of this, several phoenemes in Hana's bank are likely off.)

http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/UTAU_wiki:Japanese_Language_and_Culture

here it says that mass media are using the Tokyo dialect, and its the standard dialect in the nation and is the one taught overseas

That however refers to the language, not pronunciation of individual syllables.

eh w/e i give up on this thread =3

Aster Selene wrote:I learned a lot of my pronunciation from Korean karaoke bars.
When they play Japanese songs, they show a han'gul transliteration on top to match up.

Notably, か is actually 까. I expected this, though.

Something about つ and ち - are they the same as 투 and 티? I think they are. I'm not sure. I know ふ is the same as 후 though. However I see Korean transliterating it as 쭈 and 치 (at least in some cases). So it confuses me sometimes.

(As a result of this, several phoenemes in Hana's bank are likely off.)

か either sounds like 가 or 까... it depends if you do lazy pronounciation or not. EVE; Like a lot of people pronounce ㄱ as a "g" all of the time-- instead of pronouncing it "k" when it's by itself and "g" when theres a consonant sound before it... (aka, "properly")

I tend to see people who speak both languages fluently write う as 으 instead of 우 though. (The japanese pronounciation can sound like either one, it depends on the word, I think)

I usually see つ and ち written as 쯔/츠 and 찌/치, the "ts" sound is lazily pronounced ㅉ though

Someone on TVtropes identified う as a sort of thing that’s not supposed to be pronounced at all when it’s a standalone vowel, so I’d classify it more along the lines of 으 in-between and at the end of words and 우 as a standalone.

I don’t do lazy Korean pronunciation – it’s awkward to say it lazily since I’m Fail Korean. OTL Although I prolly unintentionally pronounce a lot of my vowels wrong.

“Lazyㅉ” made it a little easier to visualize.