Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-72.159.134.132-20160329171609/@comment-27378625-20160329203436

72.159.134.132 wrote: so my friend got a vocaloid pack and called me up. she had apperently seen a video on youtube of a vocaloid singing an english song in a japanese. It is possible to get a Japanese vocaloid to sing in English using something called Engrish. Engrish is when you use Japanese syllables to create sounds and words similar to our language. For example, if you would like to make Miku say basketball, you would have to separate it into ba-su-ke-to-ba-a-ru and then edit each syllable to remove excess sounds. So that would go from basukettobaaru to basketbar. It does sound messy and there are missing sounds (notably "th" and "ih") but if you practice a lot you'll get the hang of it.

Some examples of Engrish are:

I (愛) - by Circus-P

Castle in a Cloud - cover by Konki-P

If your friend needs help with Engrish, check this article: English - Japanese