Talk:OLIVER/@comment-38541918-20191103125025/@comment-71.166.46.86-20191207221425

VOCALOID usage, at least in terms of music production, is the most prominent in Japan. The Piapro Characters (Hatsune Miku and co.) craze started the whole VOCALOID culture/fanbase. With the Piapro Characters leaving VOCALOID, hopefullty there will be other comapnies that will create voices for the software. But Japanese vocals are still popular in general because (other than what I have mentioned above) VOCALOID is (somewhat) associated with anime/Japanese cartoon culture. This association is due to the fact that Miku's box art and character design led other companies to follow this marketing idea. Though English VOCALOID has advanced greatly since V4/V5, many of the V3 ane V2 vocals are still popular since there are not many English vocals. There are around less than thirty voicebanks for English, whereas there are well over fifty-five Japanese voicebanks. All I wish for is that more English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish voicebanks are produced by (hopefully) new companies.