Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25563055-20141024231726/@comment-30602727-20160524191830

@Neeva -

1. Miriam Stockley is a celebrity though...

2. They don't get updated because the companies can't afford that or they think the VOCALOID is not popular enough to warrent an update...

@Angel - Chinese is made up of many different dialects and each one relies on tones. There's 5 tone variations in Mandarin and like 9 in Cantonese iirc (don't quote me on that). Mandarin has like... a neutral tone, straight tone, rising tone, curved (?) tone, and falling tone (¯ ˊ ˇ ˋ). Tones are usually omitted in singing for Mandarin and in this case, recording Mandarin voicebanks. However, the pronunciation differs in each region and certain words can mean different things (xiaojie meaning "young lady/miss" in one area, but could mean "prostitute" somewhere else).