User blog comment:Hoshi598/Should there be hindi vocaloids?/@comment-4704113-20170922044725/@comment-53539-20170922102127

I remember someone trying to use UTAU as a means to argue about Vocaloids lack of languages.

But UTAU has issues related to it primarily being made for Japanese and they leak into other languages constantly.

Plus, UTAU is free, not paid for and everything is done by its community. In terms of development, UTAU is a dead software as its last update was in 2013. Its the community keeping it alive at this point with new voicebanks and resamplers and all that. As the UTAU fans cease over time, it will slowly die out as the issue with a software that receives no new developments is more or less what it faces due to time.

I have difficulty explaining all the problems to people who try and bring up UTAU as a counter to Vocaloid... There is a lot of UTAU users who don't either want to listen to what I have to say or refuse to take in my issues and concerns. What you can get away with in UTAU isn't the same for Vocaloid. Fans tend to forget this is a commercial product and development occurs slowly... But when it does its quite major.

Tragically, I spent 2010 explaining that English was a good thing for Vocaloid as Vocaloid can't rely on the Japanese market only forever and this was before we had 3 more languages confirmed. There was a time when fans couldn't understand why there was English vocaloids and why the software doesn't just focus on Japanese. With the events of Vocaloid3s introduction, I feel its result has caused the opposite issue of now fans want every language under the sun. This was on top of the haters saying "every language but English is good" and things like that. even then, I often quote the issues with English and how its formed in Vocaloid and note how even if you get a language set up in Vocaloid it may not be easy. English isn't even the hardest language to do...

Regardless, there is always an awful lot of ignorance and/or naivety in regards to languages and vocaloid development in general. I often feel rather then fans asking for something, they need to get together to make it happen... But Alter/ego "Alys" is another case of things not working out when fans do something as their not very professional. The unprofessional fan is a troublesome thing when they want a professional result.

I understand why fans want things to happen as "Vocaloid" has a name to its software people want slapped on a project. Heck, its why Alys' developers don't have an issue with Alys' name and Vocaloid being used at the same time (hence why they have no problem with people calling her a Vocaloid). :-?