Talk:GUMI/@comment-78.225.83.15-20141218092149/@comment-32500188-20141218125846

I'm guessing it's a number of things... but I think the voice-type in general is what's most appealing about her to users and producers. Plus, the accent (as her English bank is one of the closest sounding to the standard American/US accent most users seem to like or find appealing), the youthful tibre to her voice (also something that most English VOCALOIDs seem to lack, with the exception of SONiKA, Oliver, Avanna, and YOHIOloid), and the level of her popularity (seeing as she's more widely known both in and out of Japan) more than likely have some influences in the preference as well. She's still not exactly ideal for some folks, but considering those factors and the types of songs that producers out there are composing, they probably feel her voice fits in the best compared to the other available ones.

While I do agree that it would be nice to see more wide-spread English VOCALOID usage (outside of song covers and talkloids), the variety of voice types is going to have to expand a bit in order to garner the interest in that part. There isn't really a true English "power" type vocal available for usage yet, and a lot of producers are known to prefer those types of vocals for their songs without having to heavily edit a vocal to get similar. That's why all eyes are on Ruby and the upcoming Zero-G male vocal for V4... the sample for Ruby was enough to stir up a lot of hype from folks (like me) who are looking for that exact type of vocal quality, and are hoping things go well enough for there to be a release sometime in the future. :-)