User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/So people finally are getting it.../@comment-76.25.74.205-20130824062240/@comment-53539-20130824101642

English is a difficult language to master, more difficult then Japanese. Its one of those languages that is phonetically, diaphonetically and triphonetically vague. There are several "A" sounds, and unlike Japanese has pure consonants.

You need 500 sounds per pitch for English and 2,500 sounds per pitch for English... And none of those sounds in English are as definate as they are in Japanese. Just try and grasp this.

I'm not arguing on if its possible, I'm saying that Yamaha should be allowed to make this software as good as possible. This can only be achieved through trying to master languages a lot more complex then Japanese. Its confirmed there are problems with English vocaloids, no one is going to deny that at all, but in Voclaoid2 era we had to deal with the English software side taking a side step since their Japanese cousins got REALLY popular and left them in the dark.

Progress only happens with time, we need English vocaloids to pick themselves up so Yamaha can consider working on them more. What we don't need are people like "That guy" who just say "Yamaha are wasting their time and should just focus on producing Japanese vocals". Not only does things like hold back Yamaha's efforts, but they also hold back other languages too.

In short its pretty much a selfish opinion, thats blinded by bias and is the same mind set a lot of pro-Japanese or "weaboo" fans get into when they dismiss western animation as "inferior" to Japanese animation. Anyone who studies animation though will learn that things are not that complex, many Japanese animations are low-budget while many western higher budget... Heck, Disney animation alone is often held at the highest standards, even if you don't actually like Disney (I hate the "happy ever after" style of Disney ¬_¬)...

So yeah, some guys like "anon" are taking this too far, but "That guy" also is no better then "anon".