Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20140724155732/@comment-30602727-20140727052439

Adept-eX wrote: Well, seeing the amount of money invested on this, it's evident they are going to test new recording methods, or try to improve the quality of the voicebank in comparison of their predecessors Hm. I didn't think about that. The amount of money completely just flew over my head .w.

But I do agree. If they're investing so much, they've got to be doing new methods or improving. I mean, Tianyi... as much as I love her... she doesn't have good quality Chinese. Some (or maybe most) natives can't seem to understand what she's saying unless there's subs. Plus the Beijing accent makes it a little more difficult. YANHE had clarity improvements over Tianyi, if you listen to their duets often enough (Two Girls of Millennium is a good example of comparing them).

If anything, I think Ling may have the same amount of clarity as YANHE does (hopefully, if she doesn't have a thick regional accent that's difficult to understand) or maybe better.

YANHE's pronunciation is also more developed than Tianyi's (which is good.  Tianyi's the first for Chinese, can't be perfect on the first shot). Though, I must say, even if I don't speak or understand it myself, I can tell YANHE does have some issues with pronunciation at times (what VOCALOID doesn't?). I guess, what I'm trying to say is that I expect more improvements in the Chinese language of VOCALOID. If not, then that's okay. Small steps I suppose