v0.1.0

Well Stardance told me this:

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IDK why, but i was planning to devlog my silly anyways so:

five commits. all tagged v0.1.0. all fixing things that should have been done before I said “the project is ready.” the classic “wait I forgot” sequence.

“Oops” - CI was trying to build docs without running npm ci first. added the install step. three words of actual code change. (this was wrong)

“Huh. where did that come from.” - the pages deploy was creating a docs/ directory but the docs copy was still commented out. the demo was deploying fine but docs were going nowhere. fixed the mkdir.

“Oooops guess who forgot to uncomment some code” - uncommented the actual docs copy in static.yml. also fixed the docs URL from nisoku.org (wrong domain) to nellowtcs.me/UTAU.js/docs. details.

“You never saw that coming did you /sarc” - added all the npm publish metadata to package.json. license, author, repository, homepage, bugs URL, and keywords. the keywords are: utau, synthesis, singing, voice, speech, audio, dsp, lf-glottal, source-filter, formant. so if you npm search for any of those things, maybe you’ll find this. someday. (NPM release failed lol, that’s why I did this)

“Badges hehe” - npm version badge, CI status badge, MIT license badge at the top of the README. because a project isn’t real until it has badges. everyone knows that. (/j)

five commits to go from “done” to actually done. four of them are CI fixes. like i just said, this is software development.

CI is green. docs are deployed. npm metadata is set. badges are shiny. v0.1.0 is tagged.

so. that’s UTAU.js.

six days. from “idk my voice tho” in an Obsidian doc to a parametric singing synthesizer with three languages, 14+ import/export formats, a Svelte demo app, a docs site, 160+ tests, and a v0.1.0 tag.

it sounds mid. like, genuinely. the vowels are recognizable but the consonants are strange and the whole thing has this uncanny valley quality where you can tell it’s trying to be a voice but isn’t quite there. it’s really adorable when it tries :3

but it makes sound. from math. in a browser. and that’s the whole point of v0.1.0. it doesn’t have to be good. it has to exist.

it exists now.