Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25251014-20141028105918/@comment-32500188-20141211132809

First of all, not all VOCALOIDS hail from the same exact company. So even if they did ever have a consideration of "dropping Maika" as you wish they did, Anon 212, considering that Voctro Labs is more established on the VOCALOID front (as they have ties to the creation behind the VOCALOID technology altogether) compared to a group of fans of the software getting together and having to learn everything from the bottom up or rely on other resources to get the project done (much more the thought of Yamaha having to put in the extra resources for updating the software to incorporate a whole new phoneme list for a new language altogether while it's clear now they were working on the next iteration of the engine), it was less likely to happen that way.

Secondly, when ALYS was "slated" to be a VOCALOID, there wasn't any pre-approval from Yamaha on the project... so technically even then, she wasn't officially recognized a VOCALOID by them, as much as it pains me to say this. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that could have been handled better... and even then, the possibility of the project going through was pretty slim, especially if Yamaha felt it wasn't something they were willing to invest in at the time. It's probably not so much of a money issue as it is the amount of work required... and if they already have future projects in the works right now for the software, its something that would just get pushed back until they could get to it... at least, that's my thoughts on that. v(・-・)v

Lastly, there was no way to tell how ALYS would have sounded like through the V3 engine since they didn't make her samples through that medium, so making that judgement that she would have been a good voicebank when we don't have a fair comparison for her against how Maika sounds in V3 kind of feels unbalanced. Even then, it's all a matter of tastes to what types of voices people prefer.

Not saying it to be snippy or anything, but just pointing those things out... there are a lot of things that could have been done differently, but there wasn't a sure-fire guarantee that the project would fly, especially if it required a new language. I did have my hopes for ALYS being a VOCALOID, too, but doing a little more research and all behind the technology and all, I can see even more why it's a lot more difficult for creating VOCALOIDs outside of just the costs for making a new library. :-/