User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Defending Miku English/@comment-25147000-20141012162648/@comment-53539-20141012163557

Besides English vocals aren't all THAT realistic to begin with.

I was with you up until that part, because Prima and Sweet ann were always considered more realistic in Japan then Miku, Rin and Len.

Chika has 200 extra samples, doubling her number of samples against all other Japanese vocaloids right? that means every Japanese vocal has 200 samples, and Chika has 400. At the same time, Gumi's English vocal has 4x the number of samples right? 200 x 4 = 800 samples. The more samples you have to choose from, the more variation exists and the more natural it sounds. Since nature doesn't tend to produce the same results every time you say the world "here" or "Pika" like vocaloids do, potentially any Vocaloid with a large sample base can sound more realistic then one with a smaller one - in theory. In practice it also depends on the language handling of Vocaloid itself AND the voice type.

But Prima and Tonio both have been known to trick opera lovers into thinking their real opera singers, so at the end of the day what you said in this last statement is just not true and you should think about this when you go to say this again. :-/