Q&A Box

In lieu of websites such as Curious Cat (which requires a Twitter login), I’ve decided to self-host a Q&A box instead.

IMPORTANT: Any questions you will send here will be answered publicly (albeit, you’ll be anonymous). If you wish to ask me a question in private, please use the Contact form instead.

Note that you can also always post a comment on any of my blog posts! However, these comments will be both public and not anonymous, so please keep this in mind.

Please do NOT use this page to advertise any products and/or services! Thanks in advance.

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Answers So Far...

  • Someone asked:
    on September 5, 2026 4:42 am
    How are you doing today? :3
  • Someone asked:
    on August 22, 2026 11:07 am
    Hello. I hope you are well. I understand from your site that commercial use of your sound banks is generally permitted without request - thanks for the clarity. My question is more specific and technical, not about commercial use in general: for the DiffSinger version of Hoshino Hanami, is it permissible to host the sound bank files on a remote server (like Hugging Face Space) so that a backend service can run the inference and generate sounds for a small application I am building? The sound bank files themselves will not be sold, redistributed or downloadable to end users - only the generated audio output will go to them. I want to make sure that this is considered normal use and not "commercial sound bank porting", which I saw listed as "unauthorized". Thank you very much for your time!
  • Someone asked:
    on April 19, 2026 10:46 pm
    I am writing a visual novel and was wondering if I could use Hanami's voice to voice simple lines for one of the characters. It would be simple sounds and maybe some dialogue. I want to make sure it's okay to use Hanami's voice for a character that isn't her. It would not be for commercial use and would be a personal project distributed for free. You and Hanami would both be credited. (Sidenote: I did try to submit this in the contact form but couldn't get any of the answers to the quizzes right, even though I'm sure the answers were right I couldn't figure out the right way to type them lol)
    • Lotte V replied:
      on April 24, 2026 4:06 pm
      you're definitely allowed to do that (even commercial use would've been fine, to be honest). keep in mind that her current voicebanks are mostly oriented towards singing rather than speaking, although i do hope to one day release a tts model of her voice
  • Someone asked:
    on June 10, 2025 8:45 pm
    how are you doing girl???? recently discovered hanami and I love her, been using her for some original songs <3
    • Lotte V replied:
      on January 28, 2026 4:25 pm
      a late hello, kind stranger. doing alright still. thank you so much for your kind words!
  • Someone asked:
    on November 20, 2024 5:39 pm
    this is a silly question, but, how are you doing? ^u^
    • Lotte V replied:
      on December 18, 2024 12:47 am
      doing alright! the little project i was working on finally is working as intended, so that's good
  • Someone asked:
    on August 7, 2024 9:39 pm
    how to dowland your voicebnak?
    • Lotte V replied:
      on August 10, 2024 11:06 pm
      just go to any of the character pages and click on any of the "download" buttons, of whichever voicebank you want
  • Someone asked:
    on July 1, 2024 1:51 pm
    How old is this website? As a full-stack web developer, I can create a more flexible, stylish, and high-performance website that enhances communication for your followers. Best of all, I'm offering this service for free, with my name prominently displayed at the top right of the page.
    • Lotte V replied:
      on August 10, 2024 11:05 pm
      i am not interested. as a side note, for matters such as these, i prefer you use my contact form
  • Someone asked:
    on February 3, 2024 10:37 pm
    I'm sorry, please disregard my previous question about the phenomizers. I didn't know you didn't want to be contacted about that. I'm sorry.
    • Lotte V replied:
      on February 4, 2024 12:08 am
      i actually don't mind, but for matters such as this i'd prefer if you used the contact form instead. i can't really offer proper help through this q&a box.
  • Someone asked:
    on February 3, 2024 9:58 pm
    Sorry to bother you. I'm working on a Welsh-English UTAU voicebank and I wanted to ask for some information on how to make phenomizers for OpenUTAU. Can you point me to any resources or provide any advice on how to make one? I've tried reaching out to Mim, but she's been very busy lately and she suggested I contact you.
  • Someone asked:
    on January 13, 2024 4:16 pm
    Who is your favorite magical girl?
    • Lotte V replied:
      on January 13, 2024 5:35 pm
      that's a difficult one. sailor moon and kinomoto sakura are pretty iconic, but i also adore mitsuki from full moon wo sagashite