Talk:Character Voice/@comment-5051846-20140324194802/@comment-5051846-20140324203612

Don't worry, I haven't seen CV:Lia anywhere, just an example. However, I do think we may need to delve a little further in terms of clarifying what 'CV' means about certain Vocaloids. We can assume that the Character Vocal Series by Crypton were not supposed to sound like their voice provider's natural voices, but do we know that other Vocaloid's with 'CV' mean the same thing?

It's a little difficult to explain, but if you come at the word 'CV' from a different perspective it could mean that they were just the voice provider and could still be professional singers, not 'acting' in any specific way. The phrase 'CV' could be adjusted from the anime context to mean something different. Although the term is used to denote voice actors in anime, that may be a trope specific to anime and when applied to Vocaloid it doesn't imply acting.

Despite this, the word 'character' does imply a "character" was put on for the Vocaloid by the voice provider, and thus it was voice acted. But there are several ways this could be interpretted too. Are they using "character" simply because the Vocaloid has a mascot character with a different name to the voice provider? This wouldn't mean they were necessarily given an acted personality in any way. Another thing to consider is that it is also not the first time that an English word has had it's subtle meaning changed in a Japanese context, so we can't analyse the word 'character' from an English point of view and ever be sure exactly what it means from a Japanese point of view without further investigation and statements from the creators themselves. More complications may arise as it is not impossible that different companies are using different interpretations of the same phrase. We already know Crypton took their own spin on it, but what's to say the other Vocaloids didn't just use it differently?

I think ire was inspired in VO because many felt that some of the Vocaloids listed did sound like their voice provider's natural voices, and thus we have sceptism. Although, we must be careful not to base judgement as to who is voice acted and who isn't on subjective areas like that.

However, it just occured to me: do you mean simply that the Vocaloids were voiced by voice actors? Not 'acted' in any way out of the ordinary for the actor's normal singing voice, and possibly still aimed at realism; but just voiced by someone who happens to also be in the voice acting business. This could change the perspective a little...