Talk:Fukase (VOCALOID4)/@comment-142.196.114.136-20160228224210/@comment-53539-20160229082043

It means while he is trying to mimic the accent, his Japanese accent results in the sounds being not quite right compared to a British accent spoken by a British person. For example, some sounds in other languages result in the speaker mimicking a certain tone... When you try to get them to do that sound or a similar sound in another language, they can't always help mimicking that tone in their native language.

(Btw, I hate the term "British accent"... Which accent? You can go 5 miles down the road and find a completely different accent in the UK, we have LOTS.  I presume by "British accent" they refer to what we call ourselves "BBC English" as it was the choice way of speaking that the BBC preferred for things like the News programs.  The BBC hated the use of regional accents at one stage and wanted to convey perfect English as taught in schools).

Yohioloid is in a similar boat. He has a Swedish flare buried deep inside his voicebanks, he is doing a English voicebank but is mimicking the American way of talking. Miku is also imitating an American accent, made worst as her voicebank is based upon Sweet Ann's.

Sometimes things like this come off as "forced" or "not quite right", which is why it is not always attractive to those who want natural sounding English. So a Native speaker doing a Vocaloid comes off normally as smooth and natural.

Top it off, in this case they only had 1 person on the development team with experience. They were also using Cyber Diva's English notes. This may not seem bad but at the time don't forget she wasn't released and pretty much was at experimental stage or prototype like. Until release, where feedback can be gathered and things repaired about the vocal, this was a bigger risk then following a voicebank set up before him - even though its confirmed those voicebanks had known errors.

All this, on top of how difficult it is to make a English voicebank in the first place... This is why the developers were so nervous, and some fans (myself included) were skeptical. He turned out surprisingly well for a Japanese -> English attempt. Though... I don't know what some were expecting... If the vocal was intelligible, he wasn't going to be released with English. All that was going to be off was smoothness and/or sound quality. Both of which are determined by so many factors that its what makes determining "quality" within a Vocaloid in the first place.