Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-53539-20171118163527/@comment-53539-20171120000601

I think when it comes to English... Well the first two things springing to mind are Chipspeech and their characters, plus Microsoft Sam. My first ever encounter itself was with the Atari STE computers chip of which Rotten.ST in Chipspeech is based on. And well, you can hear samples of Chipspeech talking here;

http://chipspeech.wikia.com/wiki/Rotten.ST

I tend to think this is kinda what we're expecting in English. I often say in regards to Vocaloid, the harder languages like English show up how bad the engine actually is at times. In other words, its only when the engine is pushed to its limits that it buckles, and this is never seen in the Japanese side.

Language overall is a complex thing and frankly... Vocaloid isn't as good as we often believe it is. IT has a "noise" like any engine, and the vocaloid software "noise" is why certain clearly spoken Vocaloids like Gackpo, IA and even Ruby ended up sounding nasally. Its got a sort of fake breathy grain to the quality on top of the digital nose and every Vocaloid voicebank has it... Some just notice more then others.

Either way, consider the people at the top are baseline in their mid-20s... They likely have heard of older engines of the 80s and 90s. And even older heard the more degraded noises of the 8 bit era. These expectations have scarred our memories and made us more skeptical towards errors in English speech. There are STILL jokes made at M.Sam and he doesn't really work well on modern computers and has long been forgotten.