Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-204.126.10.233-20140922171635/@comment-53539-20150327200948

I'm not looking forward to it, there has been numerous trouble with the Japanese accent that Yamaha needs to figure out how to tame. Its lend to problems...

Currently there has been 3 results;
 * CFM's approach is to force the vocaloid to have good english if the producer isn't good with english, the result is a voice that when it works is fine; but when it goes wrong is horrible. To the point where some label Miku Enlish as "LQ" just on this problem alone.
 * Gumi had good English, but is choppy, mostly because of either a lack of experience or the workload seeing a few cut corners. This happened with Luka V2, but her results was far worst in that half the voicebank wasn't with Luka when she went on sale. Don't get me wrong, Sonika and Tonio show this same issue with cutting corners. But it is really noticeable when the studios do it.
 * Macne Nana on the other hand made no effort to make the sounds accurate and decided to let the sounds go natural. So when she says certain sounds, their stable, but funny.

Also, bare in min that Miku's provider used a special scrpt that softened the blow the Japanese accent would produce for English. I'm still looking for the source on this, but this is a true fact. When I find it again I'll share it with everyone. So the fact Cyber Diva has an improved script, doesn't mean English IA will be better then Miku English, as she may use the Miku english script and not the Diva script for all we know.

This is kinda the problem with the English language right now, the companies aren't using the same script... Right now we've got bout 4 scripts known in use;
 * The original core Yamaha script (in all its buggy glory) that every native English vocaloid has used up to Yohioloid (at least)
 * The Japanese accent taming script
 * Diva's script
 * Ruby's script.