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We'll have French and Brazilian Vocaloids by then, I'm sure.

20 years has loads of other possibilities. How powerful will computers be then? Will it still be computers or will everyone have switched to touch screen phones by then? (I'd strangle something if it happened that way)

I hope for that easy Append/multibank transition that I've seen a couple people talk about around the wiki. Especially if we could mix phonetics from other languages, then we could have even more pronunciation control.

The Big 8... well, I've recently taken to explaining Vocaloid is like a video game console to my friends, you have different games (in our case voice dbs) by different companies, and there are newer better, consoles (or in our case engines) that come out every so often. A specific game series (in our case character or group of characters) may only have installments on an older console, or may have sequels or remakes on newer consoles. The Big 8, in my mind, are loosely related to this in a way that Mario series~Miku, Pokemon~Kagamines, and... F-zero~Gackpo because you hear less and less about it outside of Smash Bros.. Also, Earthbound~Iroha because it's popular with a cult following even with very few installments. So as long as their series keeps getting installments (or character keeps getting voicebanks), they'll be in, or has a devoted fanbase (or even at least usage), they'll remain known.