Talk:IA/@comment-86.11.145.120-20121123225141/@comment-69.138.101.75-20121126204317

Hi, I liked your comment about IA and can agree with it to some extent. Otakus weren't accepted in Japan for a long time, so showing IA given her current popularity and success to introduce vocaloid to a company or organization is a good idea. She still has an anime like design but it's more cool then moe and her voice is more mature and is a higher quality voicebank. I personally don't like her voic, and I think she got popular because of the kangaroo days project that guys doing since it has such good animation. That and the bank being realistic. But, the amount of success she's gotten makes her a good candidate for representing the vocaloid software.

About miku representing vocaloid for what it is today, I think that could be good or bad depending on who you show it too. For popularity and the profit one could make coming into this venture it would be great to show miku, for how good a vocaloid bank can get and the technology, currently with her still in V2 and being one of the first I would go with one of the newer V3 banks to demonstrate the softwares protential. Although I believe crypton currently has V3 banks for the japanese ready, and are waiting to release them alongside the english bank when it releases, and the new japanese V3 could be superior quality to the current ones out there. But of course it won't sound professional due to miku being purposely recorded to sound cute.

I'm sure many of these companys only got into this software because they saw the major potential and sucess crypton had made with their vocaloids. After many japanese companys had followed their way of giving vocaloid a character image it even seems the companys making english voicebanks are making anime like designs now. It seems releasing the software without a character image now is out of the question for vocaloids. Yamha has done it but if you do some research you'll see they actually did have some unoffical character images from the guy who designed the boxes which fans also use in the videos and such.

I'm sure vocaloid would not be popular, or even the development of the technology stopped if they did not get as much use and popularity that they have gotten so far, and I believe this is thanks to crypton and miku. It seems barely anyone was buying it when it was just a software, and for a long time it was of low quality. We might not have version 3 here today if it wasn't so popular. V2 could of been the "second chance" and after that no more funds. I'm just speculating and rambling here just some of my toughts on it

Anyway, miku rocks, Ia is realistic as hell, and gumi is fricken awesome