Talk:ONA/@comment-5057772-20131120130703/@comment-5665682-20131121155257

I said "easily imitate" not "sound exactly as"

Compared to other languages voicebanks, spanish have a very "complete" (I clearly wrote the " ") phonetic system, this means "spanish vocaloids can imitate other languages easily than (for example)korean voicebanks".

But I accept my mistake in the chinese and korean language. I've heard engloids sing in a perfect chinese and some korean songs (depending on the ability of the producer, of course) and Bruno and Clara sound... weird.

''Also, spanish language (language, not vocaloid phonetic data) has affricates too, but they're not as usual as english or chinese (for example, the "ts" and "ch") but it has other helpful phonetics like the trilled r, the dieresis, and the open vowels (f.e. english have some troubles with clear "u" and "o" sounds). I'm also a native spanish speaker, and I studied Linguistic for three years at high school with a german raised teacher.''

And all this is related to ONA and MAIKA because, as MikeFire said, maybe they will share similar phonetic data, but the core voicebank will be spanish for MAIKA and catalan for ONA. I think that's why they share same voice provider, and they were dated simultaneously, for those people who want a catalan voicebank with "spanish capabilities" (ONA) and those who want a spanish voicebank with "catalan capabilities" (MAIKA), "capabilities" make them "kind of" bilingual, but not absolutely.