Talk:SONiKA/@comment-50.172.244.159-20140531034139/@comment-53539-20140531075747

She is the bad "all-round" vocal of the V2 era of all 3 Zero-G Vocaloids, but her bugs... Between her and Luka, there is argument on who is overall worst. If you are set on a V2 vocal, go for Sweet Ann or Big Al.

Otherwise, we're in the V3 era now so you should go for a V3 vocal, all V2 vocals work anyway in the V3 engine. There is plenty to choose from this era too; Oliver, Gumi, Avanna, Macne Nana, Miku, Meiko, Kaito, Yohioloid, with Len/Rin and Luka coming up.

If you want good English, stick with Avanna, Yohioloid and Oliver though, as the Japanese accent has mixed results on the others depending on each vocal and these are the 3 "true" engloids. Unless that doesn't bother you then hell, go for the others, though the extremely accented ones like Miku, Kaito or Nana might sound weird at times.

However, if you don't already own the V3 engine, then you have a issue. Out of the English vocaloids, Oliver, Yohioloid, Gumi and Nana are the only ones being sold packaged with the V3 engine, meaning all others end up being second-vocaloid options. And while Miku is sold standalone as an independent English vocal, Meiko and Kaito are not, meaning if you don't understand how to use Japanese or the phonetics for Japanese, you get several useless voices for your money that are going to just sit there doing sod all. :-/

It really depends on what your after. The English vocaloids tend to be voices you need to really sit with and work on, the have the most notable strength/weakness margin between them compared to a lot of the other non-English vocaloids, thus their strengths and weaknesses tend to be more extreme.