Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25259979-20150219224259/@comment-25521131-20150603004656

Awesomejellystar wrote: I COULD VOICE SEEU ENGLISH! I'm fluent in English and Japanese, and I sound like her! The reason Kim Dahee can't is because she's in prison(for those of you who didn't know). You can sound like her, but chances are you'll never be allowed to voice her - SeeU has very strong ties with her voice provider, even being featured on the same promotional material occassionally, in short, Kim plays a large role in SeeU's marketing, and that's just the tip of the iceburg on reasons why you shouldn't really get your hopes up on voicing SeeU, or any pre-existing Vocaloid as a matter of fact.

Here's the thing, companies normally prefer consistantly using the same voice provider, because if they were to use a different one, it would output different results, which may lead to either controversy, or a lot of complaints. The only company who isn't exactly against the idea of switching the voice provider for one of their Vocaloids is AH Software, who I'm sure still prefer to use the same vp's, but will be willing to hire new voice providers if needed.

On top of that, you probably don't sound as close to those Vocaloids as you think you do, maybe they would share similar vocal types, but it probably wouldn't be close enough to legitimently recreate the voice from said samples.

Even moreso than that, you have to consider, recording for a Vocaloid is a tedious and somewhat expensive process, so they would want to make sure they have a reliable voice provider to work with - very rarely do amateur voicers ever have their vocals recorded, in fact, only SONiKA and Macne Nana V3 are the only two vocals known to have voice providers that had vp's who weren't professionals.

I could go on for hours why voicing a Vocaloid isn't going to just happen like that, especially one that already exists, but I think I've made my point.