Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25259979-20141123051622/@comment-53539-20150112181839

176.205.94.255 wrote: what about arabic, It will be awesome While I can see the point of Arabic as its one of the fastest growing languages (maybe even the fastest, honestly I can't remember this one), I think it might be harder to sell for different reasons to others. Many of the countries that speak Arabic don't tend to have a populace that can afford luxuries like DAWS and synthesizers and on top of it are more traditional music lovers. (note; not saying this is a general rule of the thumb for every arabic country here, just many fall into the "3rd world country" situation). Your market would be the groups in countries like the UK where Arabic is not considered the dominate language of the country. Other cultures despise westernization and Vocaloid might be taken as a example of western culture that they may not want.

Remember the remark from CFM on how robots are something some cultures fear?

Obviously this isn't the case in all areas of the Arbaic world, but in terms of marketing, this is going to be a lot more challenging then some of the other vocaloid languages we've had. This is simply because the possible target audience who are actually likely to buy vocaloid is spread out much thinner across various countries then any other target audience we've had so far. Your basic English vocal can be sold in several countries with a high concentration of English native, Japanese in Japan, Korean in South Korea, Chinese in china (and a little further then this), Spanish in Spain and Mexico...

On the other hand, I still would love this to happen either way because honestly... So many people are superstitious about Arabic culture in the last decade or so that it would be nice to break even a small chunk of this non-sense down. I went to university with people of all sorts of cultural backgrounds and I actually found the Arabic students in my class were far nicer then my fellow British nationals which is why I've always found the "treat every Arab as a terrorist" stance BS.

So yes, not only would this be awesome, it would be absolutely fudge-coated-ily awesome; especially if it was successful enough that it took off. >_<