Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.66.32.27-20141028214010/@comment-3076833-20141129193502

The problem with both SeeU and Sonika was due to mis-claims that they can interpret the whole language while only having the same amount of extra phonemes as MAIKA. In other words it's not like they took, for example, the whole Japanese phoneme list and English phoneme list and added all of them into one voicebank. Needless to say that so far we do not have a voicebank which has complete 2 phoneme sets, to put it that way.

I can assure you that as more companies look into additional phonemes we'd be able to have more stable multi-lingual voicebanks, it just takes the time and experimentation to do it to find something that works. Also if voicebanks should only have additional phonemes that isn't going towards the grand goal of multi-lingual voicebanks then what exactly is the point of having those additional phonemes (If we are defining additional phonemes as extra phonemes specifically to re-create some of other languages)?