User blog comment:Plantmageskelly/On the Subject of Utaites/@comment-24.17.74.245-20140519022330

More surprisingly: There are actually people who believe it??? Even the most realistic UTAUs I've heard are no where close to being able to substitute, not even for a note, a human singer. None of the UTAUs that were sampled from utaites such as Mitani Nana and Lon sound close enough to their voice sources to ever be able to be used to "smooth out" vocals without sticking out like a sore thumb. There are utaites who have managed to sound like UTAUs but the opposite cannot be said because it's impossible unless the utaite's voice is autotuned or edited to sound robotic.