Talk:MEIKA Hime & Mikoto/@comment-69.146.150.165-20190417014958/@comment-53539-20190429094417

People generally use the Talk libraries a lot more because "talking" is a lot more useful then "singing".

Its very common to use Talk libraries to either tell stories or in place of ones own commentary. Its like how you get on YouTube videos where they just use Microsoft Text-to-Speech for voice overs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ-qywIBxoE

First example in my search...

''I actually have no problem finding these when I don't want them... But to actually look for one I had to search. I find they are very common on youtube especially with /reddit and meme reading videos. They come up often as I like Voicey and DaddyCringe, so YouTube thinks I like this sort of thing despite only basically liking those two and one or two others like Lazy Masquerade. Its pretty typical... ¬_¬''

Its pretty much been the case for a long time, even the Voiceroids can at times outsell their Vocaloid counterparts. I'm actually surprised Vocaloid didn't stick with its own Talk engine as CeVIO is benefitting from Talk in the same light as these as well. And if CFM had a "Talk" option for Miku, they'd definately have utilized it and made a Miku voicebank for it. Also, because since 2014, Vocaloid seemingly is doing better outside Japan overall then inside, any company wishing to push for Japanese voicebanks still only aimed in Japan is really cutting things short. And a talk voicebank would benefit those voicebanks greatly.

My guess is, besides the Japanese language they couldn't get the "talk" voicebank to sound right, especially in English... Or realised it was too difficult and since the "singing" part was doing well, just dropped VOCALOID-flex. There is a story here... I wish Yamaha would tell it.