Talk:LUMi/@comment-33798838-20180504054524/@comment-53539-20180504110108

Not at the moment.

If your looking at Japanese and English, the options are rather limited to; Fukase, Hatsune Miku, the Kagamines, Megurine Luka, Yohioloid, Gumi, Macne Nana. There still are not enough bilinguals which cover both languages. OF those, the best is actually Macne Nana, though no one seems to be willing to give Nana the time and day despite this. The worst is the Kagamines because of Len and your buying the product for Rin mostly (I won't explain this here).

Even if you use two vocaloids, say Lumi and Daina for simplicity, the two vocals won't be a perfect match because their voiced by two different providers. Meaning how one Vocaloid reacts and how another reacts are not the same. We even get this among the bilinguals and they have the same provider. So even if one of the Engloids sounded similar to Lumi, the slightest difference would separate them. Also, the Engloid will likely show up Lumi's lack of realism, since as a Japanese vocaloid she has merely some 1,800 or so samples, while Daina has over 8,300 of them and has more variations. Despite what people claim, English vocaloids, along with Spanish, Korean and Chinese can knock socks off of Japanese vocaloids at times when it comes to realism as all 4 have more samples.

Meanwhile, Lumi's clear sounds and precision would show up Daina as English blends and is a softer language overall. So Lumi would have to do more singing and Daina less so the differences between them don't leak in.

You can use one language for both languages as noted on English - Japanese here on the wiki, but you never get HQ results in either direction. Though some claim Lumi is better at English then most Japanese vocaloids, the reality is she was made for Japanese and uses the same or similar set up to any of them, making her no better for it. Its basically "Luka Japanese does better English then Luka English" all over again, a statement which has long since been busted. A lot of the time, people fall into the trap of "clarity = quality" and they believe something is better then it is, forgetting just because you can understand it doesn't mean its good. The human brain is excellent at working out language even if its vague. I can bring you examples of this from the comedians "The Two Ronnies" wherein they demonstrate language and pronunciation issues if you wish to see this in action.

So basically, you options are;
 * 1) Use one of the bilinguals for both languages
 * 2) Use Lumi and a English vocaloid, but adjust things for the lack of behavioural differences
 * 3) Use Lumi for English but not get HQ results

From what has been said... Lumi's not a easy voicebank to work with. However, a trial version of her has been made available at some point, I'd give it a go and see how you get on with her.