Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25563055-20141024231726/@comment-32500188-20160524182800

There's a common misconception that Japanese VOCALOIDs in general ARE more natural in comparison to other languages. Truth be told, that isn't the case. They're just as robotic sounding as others in languages, just ask anyone who is a native speaker or has listened to or spoken the language long enough to notice the difference. Japanese VBs may seem a little easier on the ears in comparison when non-native folks listen to them, but mainly because, like Angel mentioned, Japanese in general has way less phonemes, in turn making less phonetic data to deal with in Japanese VOCALOIDs, plus doesn't deal with end consonants like English or other languages that have them does... but that shouldn't mean that it equals "more natural" automatically. It's just so much easier to say that "X-language VOCALOIDs sounds more natural than Y-language," when it's a language one may not even be completely familiar with... seems to be one likely answer why so many default to that way of thinking when it comes to this subject.