Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20170314133630/@comment-53539-20171015082748

Alter/ego uses the same engine as Chipspeech, but what works for Chipspeech never worked for alter/ego. The vocals in CS are already robotic to begin with, they are simulating a vocal which has a wide gait so to speak and is highly flexible for this reason. But Alter/ego is in the same line up as Vocaloid and that means it is competing in a market with better already. That's not good when your own software has not the ability to match it feature for feature. Plus Yamaha's team and developer basis is huge. :-/

UTAU... Well... I've highlighted that because its development ended in 2013, its on a deadline. Any software that sees this problem begans a slow death march to a time wherein the software is too outdated. People don't realise this and they think so long as voicebanks and resamplers keep churning out everything is fine. In the west the software is still getting somewhere but in Japan its already seeing a slow decline. This is also why there is less professional companies looking at the software like Nana's.

I'd hope it would be a vocaloid too. 2 days away from this announcement though.