Talk:GUMI/@comment-50.172.244.159-20140522232113/@comment-53539-20140523071208

If your looking for a beginner Vocaloid, your best bet is with actual Engloid rather then Japanese -> English vocals. :-/

Unless your good with phonetics, any English vocal will be a pain, but for the Japanese ones there is issues with the way the phonetics sound. But even so... There are only 3 English packages with the full V3 + Vocal package; Gumi, Oliver and Yohioloid. Avanna is suppose to be easier to use then Oliver, I have 0 idea how easy Yohioloid is to use in comparison, but there was a reviewer in April who said he was fairly easy to use. He does come with both English and Japanese as well...

I think Macne Nana comes with a starter pack also, but Nana's one of the worst offenders for how wierd her sounds are since they didn't even try to make her sound like a native hardly at all. Which makes Nana a "second vocal".

Miku, Kaito, Meiko come without V3, ut with Piapro Studio instead. Which is nice as it adds a lot of new things to any Vocaloid, however, you don't have the full goodness of the V3 software, though you can make do without it this way.

All other Vocaloids right now are V2's. There are other English vocals on the way though.

Unfortantely, starter vocals are of limited options. :-/