Talk:MEIKO/@comment-153.107.192.219-20181115223012/@comment-53539-20181115231604

CFM English tends to not be great. Megpoid English isn't that great either but mostly due to bugs and glitches. Actually, however, Miku V4 is better then Meiko V3's English. Miku V4 is a marked standing point of development according to them and they learnt a lot from it. Luka's provider also helped develop it. You may not like the Miku English V4, but sadly its a vast improvement over past ones. Though the record isn't great, up until Meiko's English we had a half-put together Luka English, a badly matched Miku one and Kaito singing through his teeth. Meiko suffers from the badly small vocal range too in her English and its the shallowest one of the package.

Trouble is, noting the Miku English improvements here, its not impacted any other Vocaloids yet as the others were done before Miku V4 English was made with the new progress. Megpoid English meanwhile desperately needs an update to fix its bugs because its already been outclassed by Fukase and Macne Nana V4, both of which are ranked better then it making it. And with improvements to Miku V4 English, Gumi's English vocal now is rather boiling. But, bare in mind Miku English still has issues like the shallow vocal range that CFM likes to give their Vocaloids English voicebanks, whereas Fukase, Nana and Gumi all have English vocals with equal ranges to their Japanese counterparts. :-/ Meiko's alright but her voicebank is rather outclassed by the likes of Mirai at this point, though has extra voicebanks unlike Mirai. The trouble is, Meiko's voice type group has various other vocaloids in it of the same calibre so its a rather cramped group. But a lot of CFM Vocaloids these days are outclassed, particularly as some of them still have V2 tempo and vocal ranges, while most Vocaloids except the likes of Rana and Lumi have bigger tempo and/or vocal ranges as of V3. This is why many of the post V2 Vocaloids tend to be better in general not just in smoothness due to engine changes and added triphones, but they have bigger ranges to draw from so out perform past Vocaloids.