Talk:Hatsune Miku V3 English/@comment-24075905-20131021032520

I've come up with a theory on how to make Miku's l's actually sound like l's instead of r's because of her Japanese accent.

And I discovered it about a year ago when I tried to make Sonika sing in Japanese fluently.

She actually sounded fluent in the end, because of this trick I created.

So, as we all should know, there are phonemes you can edit when you input lyrics into the Vocaloid system. Well, when I made Sonika sing Japanese, one of the major problems I ran into was the way she pronouced "ra, ri, ru, re and ro" (besides many other sounds because of her accent). So I figured out that if I put an "h" in front of the "r" in the phonemes, she would make a sound similar to rolling an r, and thus creating that l-like sound that you get with most Japanese Vocaloids. If you don't understand, here's what I mean:

English Phoneme for "Ra": [r Q]

My Edited Phoneme for "Ra": [h r Q]

The end result is a successful rolled r, or l-like r sound. Since Miku English does indeed use the English phoneme system instead of the Japanese ("ra" phoneme: [4 a] ), this can be used to get the proper "l" sound one wants when using Miku English. I have yet to test this, but maybe putting an h in front of the l would make the sound more proper as well.

As for situations where the word is "talk", maybe removing the l altogether is the solution ("talk" phoneme: [th Q l k] --> [th Q k] ). It will obviously completely depend on whatever the sound is, but I think that this theory could work.

I intend to do this when I start using Miku English for my songs once I purchase her.

What does anyone think about this? Good idea?