Talk:Japanese Phonetics/@comment-5051846-20140721184032/@comment-5051846-20140722101713

Ah! On VO, he posted this:

'' Whenever you develop a Vocaloid, Yamaha will send you a 'development suite', which is sort of like a toolkit for Vocaloids. They may also send you a testing version of V3, depending on the company. By 'testing version' of V3, I mean it's a VOCLAOID3 engine that can work with uncompressed or unfinished voicebanks. One of the development tools is a sort of "VB Measurement" tool. If a VB is over or under a certain requirement set by it's language, YAMAHA will reject it (unless there's special circumstances). If a VB is too small, the quality will not be good enough for sale, and if it's too big, YAMAHA will not be able to process or distribute it in a timely fashion.

You can use this VB Sizer on VOCALOID's you own to determine how many samples are in the VB and how the samples are arranged. There's also a raw audio editor which allows you to play back VOCALOID samples raw, and edit them accordingly. Other tools include a spectrum analyzer, time-pitch interpolation tester, scale compressor, etc.

Because of the nature of these tools, I can't display them or any of the audio. I'm sorry D: But there will be more transparency on how VOCALOIDs are made soon! :D''