User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/What got me thinking..../@comment-5665682-20140106161753/@comment-2200792-20140107152654

"it feels like the companies are trying to find a cheap work around another language without committing themselves to producing the HQ results needed. Even when a Vocaloid is understandable, it never sounds right because its using sounds originally for another language to make a language with different ways of speaking" by Angel Emfrbl.

> I think it's because of YAMAHA fees. I 'm not sure but maybe extra phonemes don't count as a language and that's why.

I like MAIKA because of voice + design.