Talk:Standard Vocals (VOCALOID5)/@comment-173.48.134.156-20180722040857/@comment-53539-20180722222220

The English vocaloids issue with "r" was fixed, the problem is not related to any particular language but an issue with Vocaloid itself. The issue carries on across all vocaloids including the Japanese, though is not so noticeable. Spanish Vocaloids have seen it reported in their vocals too. Whatever is causing the problem is troubling Vocaloid in general and is not isolated to a single language.

Basically don't pin the issue on English Vocaloid when its impacting all vocaloids. Vocaloid has issues with consonants in general as well as lower octave or deeper pitched vocals. So this is not the only issue known to impact all Vocaloid.

The nasally issue is also related to the engine, though its unknown what causes it. Ruby was confirmed to not be nasally in her recordings, but sounds nasally in Vocaloid. The issue that causes is not unknown but its either thought to be part of the process of making the samples into voicebanks (example merging/cutting sounds to get the samples) or by the engine itself. For example, though most people say Gackpo sounds nasally from whats been said, he isn't intended to be this. In fact few Vocaloids like Tone Rion are intended to be nasally.

Bare in mind many of these issues are issues found within synths in general, and we tend to underplay the issues. I know UTAU can have issues like changing octaves of a vocalist, another known issue of Vocaloid (leading it to have to be corrected), which can be exampled by any Macne voicebank that gets put within UTAU (its corrected in the 2S and Angel Whisper vocals the only official UTAU voicebanks). So... You can't fault Vocaloid.

"R" also has a habit of being problematic in general for synths. No idea why though, I'd have to leave the explanation to an expert.