Talk:VOCALOID3/@comment-76.28.197.86-20130415214107/@comment-53539-20130416121010

Oh good grief I could kiss you for that post... OoO

From what was said on VO, there are things left over in the current version of english from the V1 days and as well as missing data there is redundant data, data which gets produced but not actually used by the engine.

Not only that but some of the database consists of British pronunciations, the other on American. Its odd for Vocaloid since most software apparently goes for a clean one or the other, not both.

Don't get me wrong, theres problems even in the Japanese vocaloid version, but the database is x5 for english and english isn't a phonetic definite language like Japanese. As far as we know, Miku and VY2 have a large gap in terms of quality of language, since Miku has missing vowel sounds and VY1, VY2's predecessor, had its database completely revamped so the pair were the best they could be within the Vocaloid2 engine. Its partly why they were so much better at results then Miku ever was.

In vocaloid 3, they added triphonetic capabilities, this was added to all 5 language (3 new languages were added in V3; Chinese, Spanish and Korean, though only Chinese seems to have really gotten anywhere).

The one to talk to about phonetics around here is Adept-eX. :-/