User blog comment:HachuneNova/Should there be hindi vocaloids?/@comment-53539-20170920160908

I don't see it happening fast....

I have a feeling the other European languages are going to get a lot more focus then other languages like Hindi first. The reasoning is that % wise, more people in the world tend to speak these languages due to Europeon conquest a few centuries back. I pointed this out in regards to the same issue with the Philippines, that there isn't much of a market in terms of language, the language isn't unified for their area and there are several languages. The most popular one, isn't spoken widely elsewhere in the world and to top it off... The average person in the area can't afford Vocaloid which is why you have a huge pirating amount in this area.

Also the 5 langauges we have;
 * Chinese and Korean made sense because after Japanese itself the next big markets for the Japanese themselves is from Korea and China and both are the markets left of Japan.
 * The English speaking market is huge around the world as quite a large amount of people around the world either speak it native, secondary or fragments enough to "get" a song in English. Its a complex language, but widespread with a lot of money behind it.  Breaking into the English speaking market is essential and reason it occurred back in V1 because of the money potential involed and the large market.  Though there is more focus on America (understandable as to the right of Japan, the most direct market is North America).  Unfortunately, its also the most "stubborn" market to me so the issue is more about breaking barriers of bias in various areas (language, traditions, acceptance, etc) then it is selling Vocaloid.
 * Spanish makes sense because Vocaloid was birthed in Spain. The people behind the Spanish vocaloids are the same leaders behind Vocaloid itself more or less.

I wouldn't be surprised if German is going to be add as Ah Software has released their Japanese vocals in Germany. And I do believe they have released a German translation of the software with it. To me, this is a pathway to German language vocaloids, as it happened in the past with Chinese.

Its not I am discriminating against other languages, but I'm aware of the play of markets. Plus, Yamaha needs partners to make things happen and unless someone will steps forward, you don't get much. This is why we have no Spanish V4s, because the only one willing to produce them was Guiseppe which was a very bad thing... =_=

All of these problems highlight why Vocaloid hasn't ventured yet beyond 5 languages, would be surprised if more come in V5. V4 was released in a hurry because of the retirement of Hideki Kenmochi, this is known. It could have had more done to it, but this now falls into Katsumi Ishikawa's hands. Fortune has it though, he is VERY keen to get Vocaloid upped, so chances are we could be in for some treats in V5.