Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10966617-20150906101845/@comment-53539-20151203095847

@Evil, they considered both American and British natives. They are basically looking to cast the characters like a dubbing company would. So yeah... Liken it to a dubbing company dubbing the voice of a anime character here. Their looking for an approx. like voice to what they have who has a natie or close to that level of speech for the role.

I think a lot of it has to do with funding and time. For Yuki, as an example, it ain't happening... They couldn't do much to her V2 voicebank and had to get another speaker for the growl samples... So ship Yuki has sailed. For others like miki, whose a professional singer, its expensive, more then getting Saki, a voice actress, to learn English. Plus you have to find time out to do that... Not always possible. This is a problem which Lily and Gackpo face right now too. Same for the teacher.

Yukari is an unknown and both her and Zunko are 3rd party products truth be told. Since Zunko had to have a crowdfund raiser, this would also be a impact factor here, can they afford the voice? Yukari's singer would depend.

Either way, by the time all of their singers learn English, we might be in V5. Presuming it takes a year to learn enough English, you then have another year and a half for a voice production to take place... So thats about 2 and a half years. Its been a year now for V4's release. So it should be due to retirement in 3 or 4 years time at least... They have to fit 3 or 4, maybe 5 products in 3 or 4 years. Take that lesson time away, its 2 or 3 years. I'm being generous here, because its a new company producing English. The first time is always the hardest until the company learns.

Still. All this is why I said "I wonder if CeVIO is going to venture into other languages". If it wants to truly compete, sooner or later it may have to consider this. :-/