Talk:CYBER DIVA/@comment-82.131.217.187-20150305213818/@comment-32500188-20150308213217

What Dizzy said.

OP, honestly, I don't think you understood what I was aiming at with that quote, and I obviously did a poor job of pointing this out in my last reply if that's the case. Yamaha's aim for the VOCALOID music software itself has no political/social agenda in the manner that you're thinking of. If that were the case, VOCALOID would've phased out of its currently popularity and off the radar a long time ago. It's a music tool. They decided to use certain words as a measure to improve phoneme usage and ease of use for users while imputing lyrics in the VSQx files. Simple as that.

As for the elements that are pushing the height of the VOCALOID franchise altogether (be it the individual companies, VOCALOID-related characters, musicians, fans, etc.), Yamaha has no control with what producers/lyricists/songwriters decide to put in their lyrics or PVs, specifically those who happen to choose using the VOCALOID software and its related vocal libraries to convey their messages through song. So even if they never included a proper dictionary for lyric recognition, VOCALOID users would have eventually found phonetic loopholes for those words themselves anyways. It's just a lot simpler to have as many possible combinations compiled for ease of usage, even for questionable words that users would more than likely add to their own custom dictionaries themselves.

In short, it's individual VOCALOID songs that could be up in the air about politics/social issues, not the software itself... and whatever you apparently believe Yamaha's stance is on random political/social issues might be, they aren't restricting users of their products to them, nor are they blatantly force-feeding VOCALOID users and fans into conforming to their views with including three words that aren't even the worst possible words ever uttered in the English language.

And quite honestly, I'm ending my replies to this here, because continuing this would do nothing but drag this comment tree into another level of conversation completely unrelated to the article... probably way too late for that at this point, but still...