Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-11582536-20151129211259

Has this blog entry been referenced to on the wiki anywhere?

It was posted January 30th, 2008. At one point it mentions that multiple people's voices have been sampled to create "prototype VOCALOIDs", but two were chosen to be commercialized: KAITO and MEIKO.

Then the sentence right after that says something along the lines of one of those prototype voices being recorded by Hiyama Kiyoshi, and that it would eventually become VOCALOID2 Hiyama Kiyoteru.

I just thought it was interesting considering Kiyoteru wasn't even announced until November 2009, and his VP not revealed until even later. This blog entry kind of seems to be about the history of VOCALOID development, but it's kind of weird that they mentioned a VOCALOID that didn't yet even exist to the public at the time of being posted. :U

I'm not sure if the "multiple people's voices were used to record prototype VOCALOIDs" thing is mentioned anywhere on the wiki either (it's probably common sense, but it's good to have a source I guess??). Considering Hiyama Kiyoshi was involved in VOCALOID development as stated in his section on the Voice Providers page (without a source or saying what exactly he was involved in), I thought this was interesting. :X

It also mentions "Amazing Grace", which is stated right in the article to be a demo song for VOCALOID2 Megurine Luka, who also wasn't even announced until a year later.

I tried looking through the VOCALOID Development page to see if it was mentioned anywhere, but I didn't see anything about it.