Talk:Fukase (VOCALOID4)/@comment-27092909-20160202032748/@comment-53539-20160202093209

People forget that Vocaloid itself is a HQ product, this was the issue with Sonika in V2, as bad as she was she was still a HQ product. The difference was she and V2 Luka were among the lowest quality of high quality products. Likewise, Fukase is sort of like this. It just means he isn't as HQ a he could have been, otherwise he is still going to throw out higher quality results then using his Japanese vocals for English and it will be easier to get said English results, in addition you have all the pleasures of those English work around sounds.

Fukase was never going to be a awful vocal, but they could not promise top notch English because of the lack of staff members with that know-how on English. They could build the vocal, but they could not check everything was legit like what happened with Cyber Diva. As noted by Cyber Diva, without enough native speakers/English knowledge things like sound oddities won't be picked up. So this is Fukase's problem. Thats all. He has a Japanese accent which as with all English vocals works for or against him anyway, as accents for English voicebanks often do. But if the vocal is well built everywhere else it can make up for it in those areas.

I remember in the V2 era saying that whenever I saw criticism on English Voclaoid it felt like people were basically comparing them to Microsoft Sam, when he was ancient tech and V1 was above his level when released. Therefore any improvements made after V1 were still improvements that took it away from Sam's level of quality either way. On top of it, we've basically had a decade of development and a lot in the last 5 years focused on English in particular. Aside from glitches and incorrect sounds, the standard of English vocaloid at this point should be fairly decent enough.