Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.71.121.131-20151230194621/@comment-27435761-20160706003811

Scintillarescenza wrote: NeevaDash wrote: Yeah, I once recorded a UTAU voicebank within a day, It was a Japanese one. (Don't get any ideas. I scrapped it.)

I think appends would boost Engloids' reputation, as right now it isn't good. That's because monopitch CV doesn't require as much sounds, so it's easy to record. Vocaloid voicebanks are typically multipitch and CVVC with triphones. To record a multipitch VCV or CVVC for UTAU is a few days or even a week, depending on the number of pitches. Then Vocaloids have to be configured for that language (which in this case is Japanese) and UTAUs have to be otoed. But because Vocaloid and UTAU work differently I'm not going to go into that.

Engloids' reputations are fine, they're just not as popular as Japanese Vocaloids because the majority of the Vocaloid fandom is made out of weeaboos. Most of them also haven't heard much of Engloids, so they assume that all of them are like Miku English. Also they focus more on the characters than the actual programs so if they have heard English Vocaloids it's usually only Gumi English or Luka English because Gumi and Luka are more popular as characters. This is why people usually claim that Gumi English or Luka English are "the best Engloids" even though Gumi is choppy and Luka was missing samples in V2 and has phonetic errors in V4, because their accent/pronunciation sounds better than Miku's English (though the quality is not that much better). What would really help the Engloids (or any of the not-as-popular Vocaloids in general) get more attention is more original songs because that's how Miku and the other "Big 8" Vocaloids got so popular in the first place. Characters, people reconize characters more then voices... Like Yandere-Chan for instance, her real name is Ayano Aishi, but most people will say "Huh?" if I say that aloud.

And like you said weaboo's and other crap...