Talk:IA/@comment-2600:8804:80C0:1BC0:25C6:AA2:790:1E2B-20181110011604/@comment-53539-20181113211341

Also forgot to mention this, but I'll separate it.

In regards to UTAU, its a software badly in decline since 2014 mostly due to the ceased development since 2013. In Japan its taken a real good hit in declining numbers of videos produced. We're talking going from 1,200 to 450 on average between 2013 and 2014. UTAU on its way out and though companies show interest in keeping the voicebanks going by adding UTAU imports, it hasn't happened yet. This is bad for UTAU and currently the overseas fandom doesn't seem to want to acknowledge any of this. ITs got a lifespan of about a decade tops, we don't know when its going to be knocked out, but the time is against it.

Bare in mind all of this when thinking about UTAU. ITs essentially a "dead" software and is being kept alive by the ignorance of overseas and the few dedicated UTAU producers in Japan left. There are thousands of voicebanks for it and you have to have decent Japanese to produce your own Japanese vocal. And too many fail to acknowledge when they've made a bad voicebank, which is why UTAU's voicebanks tend to be looked down upon by Vocaloid fans. Resamplers and adaptions are keeping it somewhat alive, but its not going to be with us possibility is in a decades time. Meanwhile CeVIO and Vocaloid have more chance. For fun, its a good project and I won't put you off, but I am going to drop a grim reality on UTAU here.

I feel a lot of western fans don't want to acknowledge this, there is a particular UTAU video on YouTube by AkiDearest that examples the attitude towards it. Calling it a legit threat to Vocaloid when it wasn't in 2016, ironically showing Aki's lack of research skills as its popularity had already fallen by 60% in Japan by 2016. I don't know if there will be a solution for UTAU fans in the future, but I do know the situation its in right now.