Talk:OLIVER/@comment-12334114-20140225235305/@comment-53539-20140322075707

^Note; the Japanese thing goes to say for any vocaloid to sing outside the language they were built for. However, some are not convinced...

I think this is the issue with any Vocaloid though, the tuning thing, one producer can use a vocaloid and find it crap, another can use it and find it easy. :-/

English Vocaloids have trouble with short notes at times. Luka was confirmed to have some of her samples cut at 0.05, which is supposedly longer then her Japanese vocal samples. Reason is, the longer the sample the better it is at handling shorter notes, funny enough, however... English as a language is a very hard to synethise language, its currently the hardest language to make a vocaloid work for out of all existing ones Vocaloid is built for.

Oliver is not the only one with a problem with short notes, though. Big Al and Sonika handle the shorter notes relatively well. However, Prima and Tonio share many traits with Oliver, Tonio especially hates those shorter notes.

I own Sonika... She lives up to her expectations of a problem child. As for the mumbling, this is due to Oliver being a "soft type" vocal, or having soft traits. Soft types produce smoother results but are more mumbly, its something that just generally occurs for all Vocaloids. A lot of people put soft type vocals down, some even get labelled "low quality", relatively is that many of them are actually HQ then many clearer vocals, which lack smoothness or are more chunky sounding. More so its worth noting as a lot of the professional Vocaloids have a level of softness about them compared to the more Vocal acted vocals, softness comes with traits of good vocal blending of which is preferred in professional vocalists. :-/