Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-216.186.132.194-20150928173920/@comment-4281910-20150929034624

@Olliefar I agree with you about Miki's voice. I thought I was the only one who found it grating. I like some qualities of it, but in the end she kind of hurts my ears, which is weird because I generally like harsh-sounding voices.

And I envy you being flexible about shipping. That's a skill I wish I could master. Once I get a pair suffiently locked into my brain, it's stuck and I can't see anything else. It's kind of irritating. (I'm curious why you dislike Piko/Miki and Kaito/Kiyoteru. Is it the Vocaloid-you-hate/Vocaloid-you-love factor?)

The way I see it, for "usable products" and good English, that's the actual Engloids' job. The job of the Japanese-English voicebanks should be to allow certain characters to sing better English than they could otherwise while still being the same characters. It's about the characters to me, and a native English Kiyoteru just wouldn't be Kiyoteru. It would seem like some male Engloid with a similar voice type was stealing Kiyoteru's avatar, and also stealing his chances of ever getting what I'd consider an actual English voicebank. I guess it just comes down to the fact that I care more about a voice's timbre and accent than I do quality or clarity. My opinion about Miku English is that she produces better English than her original voicebank while still being Miku, so that's a win. It's still not very good English, but it doesn't have to be. For good English, there's Engloids. I'd much rather AHS just made purely English Vocaloids with all-new characters if they're going to go for different, native voice providers, basically. (I'm...not really sure why I feel so strongly about this.)