Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20171231161124/@comment-16600246-20180317030253

(Coming back through for a moment)

Wait, CeVIO's owned by Sony...? (I haven't seen any sort of info confirming such, Japanese, English, or otherwise, so if that's the case, I'm asking out of genuine & honest curiosity if there are sources for that.)

In terms of ONE's popularity, like it's been said, that only seemed to be affected outside of Japan. Over there, she's used fairly much (especially talk voice) and has over 2,000 videos in her tag on NND. While it's not quite as impressive compared to other voice synth entities, she's literally the second most used CeVIO next to Sasara (and her 11,000+ videos... huge gap, but from what I've searched, ONE is the closest second thus far). Her only "downfall" in usage elsewhere was thanks to not having a non-Japanese friendly user interface/software to work with. Just the fact that you literally have to change your computer's locale to Japanese in order to even work with CeVIO CS is a huge setback on it's current appeal to many as it is now.

There have been hints in the past that CeVIO would probably see language updates, though. If it happens to be the case in the near future, whether IA English is official revealed to be on it or not, it would definitely be a welcomed necessity for those actually interested but not willing to change too much with concerns to their system's setup.

This was also pointed out by several others feeling like it's going to be a CeVIO reveal: the official blog post stated it as "IA's English song voice" as opposed to how they probably would've used the term "library" to reference a VOCALOID voicebank. "Song voice" is notably used in all the CeVIO singing voice banks released thus far. Not trying to compound any disappointment on this, but with this combined with some noticeably obvious phoneme transitions in the short samples, it's no wonder why it's easy to come to this conclusion.

I'll personally still will wait and see, but it really feels like the writing's on the wall here, and I don't think they'd release it without the necessary updates to have the people that would probably use the voicebank the most actually be able to use it, y'know... that would be a poor business decision, and as adventurous as 1st Place & CeVIO seem to be lately, I don't think they'd be that naive not to have thought that out if that's the case. It's like we tend to forget we're dealing with actual business-minded folks on that end. ( ^-^;)

All I know is, I'm reserving all technical judgement until I can actually get my greedy little hands on that bank myself & see what can/can't be done. There's only so much you can get, and considering just about all the English track samples heard on IA/04 are by non-native English users, for me, all it would take is hearing either by someone else who is or play around myself to see if it's possible to work around some enunciation issues that are being heard or we just haven't heard yet.