User blog comment:Animekyusie/Should there be Vocaloids other than Japanese, Chinese, Engish and Spainish/@comment-7882956-20171009174138

I suppose Korean VOCALOIDs are obsolete then-

The thing is, YAMAHA (the big company that calls the shots for VOCALOID) won't make VOCALOIDs in languages they don't think would profit. VOCALOID is not just about the fans. It's also a business. In fact, Spanish VOCALOIDs are basically suffering because not enough people are buying and using them. Every new language for VOCALOID is a risk. Are there enough producers that will use them? What's the ratio with fan to producer? And this is important. Just because there's VOCALOID fans doesn't mean they'll use the VOCALOID. There are plenty of VOCALOID fans within the Spanish fandom, but either strictly follow the Japanese vocals or refuse to use/acknowledge the Spanish VOCALOIDs. Not enough of them actually use Bruno, Clara, and/or Maika. Their company, VoctroLabs knows this and that's why they're not doing anymore VOCALOID projects right now that we know of.

"Such as Hatsune Miku, Tonio, MAIKA and Xin Hua all have something in common, they have different languages for outside speakers other than Japan. Something Vocaloid doesn't have: is multiple languages."

This is kinda odd to read because I suppose you're trying to say that "you can work with their phonemes to produce other language". On technical terms, Maika and Tonio don't have other language banks; Maika has a dedicated Spanish voicebank and Tonio has a dedicated English voicebank and nothing more, nothing less. They cannot be bunched up with Miku and Xin Hua who have voicebanks dedicated to English (Miku only of these two), Japanese, and Mandarin.

"Some Vocaloid songs have different laguages in them such as, Himitsu no Houkago, it has Vietnamese lyrics. And the vocaloid producer, Masa, they use Hindi, Russian and Arabic vocals."

>"they use Hindi, Russian and Arabic vocals." Again technical terms, they're not. They're using the available language banks and altered the phonemes to mimic these other languages.

Now I'm not trying to say "you shouldn't want these languages" or "they'll never happen". I think we can all appreciate and welcome new languages in VOCALOID. But it's very important that it's not all about what we want to see and listen to. What's very important is if people would use and buy these vocals, because this is what will keep them alive and going. Because if not enough people are buying these vocals, then chances of receiving more vocals or updates get slimmer and slimmer, which is exactly what's happening with the Spanish vocals right now.