Talk:IA/@comment-86.11.145.120-20121123225141/@comment-5051846-20121126171254

I believe IA is a popular V3, regardless of my personal taste in voices, if she were to be an 'icon' like Miku, I would not mind.

She is of good quality, and represents our current status in technology to an appropiate degree. She has a midtone voice that does not cause any extreme reaction from people against either 'chipmunk' or operatic sound. Her design is elegant enough, and appealing to fans of Japanese culture and anime, a market that we can't forget.

She is a point of transition between the 'moe,' electronic Vocaloid stereotype to a more realistic, less base-splitting medium. I think this is a good thing for drawing in more supporters, or at least giving them a softer, less biased view of the software. If someone were to gain all their Vocaloid knowledge from IA, they would be better off than judging us by our current idols.

She gives a better overall picture of what we have, and although she is not perfect, she is doesn't have the ability to cause repulsion in an average listener. Unfortunatly for Miku and Rin, this would be a possibility for outsiders heavily against cutsy, high, female voices. IA, being a point of compromice, would be unlikely to garner such a responce.

Her popularity has given me good tools for showing someone a wide variety of nice songs with a well-done voice, without knowing whether they were really into the super-cutsy side of anime beforehand. She is a safer bet for the average person who isn't attracted to otaku-bait, or has no interest in it.