Talk:Status/@comment-15857656-20150227152010/@comment-30602727-20150227200804

Syo: "Originally I was working on both English and Japanese versions of Ruby, but since the sudden announcement of V4 to us we decided to focus working on developing the English version only since the workload increased, and we would have to pay for a license for each individual voicebank. "

Alphonse: "How'd the workload increase? If you're trying to make her compatible with XSY, isn't that still two voicebanks?

(also cries because her Japanese sounded really good there, better than her English imo since it was a little less nasal I think) "

Syo: "Basically it's from trying to make her a better vocal + adding more triphones And yeah, each append is its own voicebank and we'd have to pay for a license for each one, so from what I understand PFX is only wanting to invest in one english voice (since each license is pretty expensive) and then possibly release other voicebanks depending on the success of Ruby's first english vb.

Also I know what you mean about the japanese sounding better lol, I had some of Ruby rerecorded recently to try to get the English to sound more similar."

So there we have it. Ruby had a Japanese vocal in mind too at one point, but they dropped it.