Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10966617-20150906101845/@comment-53539-20151201112014

68.197.199.113 wrote: When I heard Miku English's accent issues, I wondered why they don't get samples from someone that natively speaks English that sounds almost identical to Miku? It would make a lot more sense and the overall quality of a lot of Japanese->English vbs would be improved a lot.

Because of a few reasons...
 * 1) The English vocals were made for Japanese producers to break into the west. They already went through the Appends biggest complaint of all; they don't sound like Miku at all.  So changing voices means you won't get enough of a Miku-sound to satisfy.  Take a typical English vocaloid as an example here, just a slight change of accent means the impact on the voicebank is quite different at times, so a native English speaker will be more noticeable then the provider.
 * 2) The produce of Miku is pretty much the voice of Miku at this stage. She is part of the marketing.  There are many who wouldn't buy the product if it wasn't her behind Miku.
 * 3) It just sounds better on paper, the idea of a Miku-English vocal being voiced by the original producer.
 * 4) Accent doesn't matter and all that. Primary audience is Japanese producers, who aren't native English speakers.  Sure we were sold it, but this was to get used to Miku english as a concept I guess and get people in onto Miku in the west.  But with the primary target market being Japanese producers, you need good english, but not ness. perfect. The Japanese producers won't 100% none the wiser if one or two sounds aren't quite right... See the development of Cyber Diva, they said there one of the biggest problems was trying to over-vote the Japanese developers on sounds so they had to get two English tutors involved to outweigh the votes. :-/

But... This is not on topic...

I think CeVIO is sort of trying to do too much of everything. Trying to do both vocals for singing and tlking means parts of the software maybe too divided. It gives it the edge over UTAU, Vocaloid and Voiceroid... But I've heard better from Zunko and Yukari at this point. Its more of a jack-of-all trades software. But its a sort of bridge between UTAU right now and Vocaloid, so its kinda one for those who can't afford one but want better then the other. I think its got potential for improvement into something fantastic, but its a decade behind Vocaloid right now. I think this is the problem that other syns are facing, they have to compete with whats already there. But whats there has a lot of better results.

I do think the recent releases were a good sign, but they really should add speech to them. :-/