Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-7882956-20170527035919/@comment-7882956-20170927155826

^ Not exactly the best idea to have high hopes for Tianyi just yet. Xin Hua and Tianyi's Japanese voicebanks were developed by two different companies and voiced by two different people. And Gynoid is more experienced with making Japanese vocals than Shanghai Henian is. In addition, for Tianyi Japanese V3, SHN was working with Bplats and it's possible that they didn't develop the bank. Not that it entirely matters since SHN has a different development staff now anyways.

Tianyi's Japanese is kinda wonky and definitely accented based on the concert demonstrations (though, can't trust the audio quality of those all the time either). In fact, pretty much almost all of Tianyi's V4 and Japanese demos were featured in concerts, with only two of them getting official uploads without the audience noise and reverb. :/ I'm really not sure why SHN resorts to doing things this way and I was really disappointed with how they handled Longya's demos since those were uploaded to NetEase Music first which most Westerners have no access to and have to hear them through leaks, and those demos were not supposed to be reprinted without permission (copyright and contract problems).

What's kinda odd is how Shan Xin is pretty fine speaking Japanese (as she does so as Tianyi's speaking voice in the concerts) in general, but sounds totally wonky in the software. Though, we'd have to wait and see for clearer demos.

I don't know anything about Chinese-accented or Taiwanese-accented Japanese, but Xin Hua sounds impressive at least. And does have a tone that sets her apart from existing female Japanese vocals, which is a plus.