Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26341692-20151015170513/@comment-53539-20161030203007

Guys, remember; boys don't sell as well as girls. Plus, in every case of people demanding for boys, whenever push comes to shove the same set of folks will end up voting for their favourite characters as female or stuff.

The ratio of English will never be really changed... Long story short... Unless you get more developers in. It takes x3 to make 1 vocal compared to Japanese, which can pump out 4 a year in the same time amount.

@CrunchyCookies

1. Never going to happen. Some studios like Ah software have said their voicers don't know English therefore they won't make a English vocal. Others like Internet co have only hinted a few for English. Zero-G only does English and PowerFX. 2. See my first part. 3. CFM have done English for all their vocals. Aside from XSY, their done. 4. presume you mean using a Vocal for a language it wasn't built for. I don't think this is going to happen. Yamaha only seems interested in English phonetics for English vocals, Japanese for Japanese, etc, etc. Its a waste of time and its better for the user to find out. Plus a Japanese doing English is LQ. Plus its not 100% the same for all Vocaloid. A change of accent means that a English one, for example, can have heavier vowels if their American, or softer if their British. 5. this occurs via Japanse magazines, the English version isn't well supported. Yamaha themselves made Vocaloid for professionals so they expect professionals to know their stuff. 6. Okay, V1 has less features a little then V2, but at this its really basic compared to v4. aside from a handful of features that were remodeled in v2, or removed as nobody knew what they did... 7. Aside from Miriam, I doubt Zero-G has contact with some of its providers. I don't think you should bug zero-g like this. A petition would need about 100,000+ signature to be even festiable to send in. zero-g hasn't updated because English vocaloid is a low profit production as it stands, and you have to buy a re-license cost for existing characters. Japanese vocals sell 10,000s and can afford it, their production is also cheaper due to less samples and no exportation tax costs.