Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720164242/@comment-29714788-20160621042711

@Ness the Earthbound fan The r sound in Japanese is not pronounced as either r or l, it's really somewhat like a mixture between r, l, and d. The correct way to pronounce it is how the t in "water" or tt in "butter" would be pronounced in American English.

Kotoritachi wrote: I like all of the languages, but I chose Japanese over English because Vocaloid itself just sounds better in Japanese. I guess it's because there's less sounds to connect, versus English which probably uses more different sounds than there are countries in the world. Keep in mind that Japanese Vocaloids don't have perfect pronunciation either, despite the language itself being less phonetically complex. I find that especially the Crypton Vocaloids tend to suffer from weird pronunciation, Miku and Kaito in particular. (Not sure how to explain it, but they have a accent/stressing on vowels that real singers don't have) I would say Chika has the best pronunciation out of the Japanese Vocaloids, though the other Internet Vocaloids are consistent as well. But usually English-only speakers say that "Vocaloid sounds better in Japanese than English" because they can't hear the pronunciation flaws that Japanese Vocaloids have, while they can hear those of English Vocaloids.