User blog comment:Ian Scarlett/Why I love Daina so much ;; .../@comment-5665682-20150927171629

I like everything about Daina, my only complain is that she has this particular age timbre that I dislike.

Like... dunno, she has the same problem V3 Clara has for me. I don't know how they both Clara or Daina were developed, but in both voicebanks it sounds like if the voice provider is a 30+ y.o. woman that made her voice more "cutesy" for the recordings. So the vocal has this fake-ish "young" tone that annoys me a lot.

Otherwise, is pretty clear and has this really open vowels that make her english very "clean" and understandable. In "Pushing Daisies", the verse "tell me how and why it all turned out this way" is a good example of what I mean. She pronounces vowels like [ { ] and [ V] really open, without the schwa, almost like spanish [a] phoneme. Maybe is the accent, dunno, but is really nice.

But yeah, that youngish timbre.