Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-83.110.203.231-20170430100150/@comment-53539-20170430205429

Filipino vocaloid would be nice, but the big problem is the market is really limited. I once pulled up some figures that presented the problems. The language of tagalong is mostly restricted to one location, so the vocaloids wouldn't have a global sales perspective... The average consumer doesn't have a high paid job... And worst still is the number of speakers is rather disappointing overall.

in short... I'd expect more chances of some other languages appearing. To me the big problem is though is that Yamaha has hit most logical languages. Japanese being their own, English having a huge potential market globally, chinese having a huge market -period- Korean because its the next closet to Japan and spanish because it was where Vocaloid was born. Right now, the top 3 languages are basically Japanese, Chinese and English...

I think any other language is now going to be a gamble, but the trouble is they have to keep expanding. So there is more likely the languages in the top 10 will get voicebanks then anything else. Though with some like arabic, which I think may create some cultural issues... So they'll more like stick with traditional languages like Italian, French, German, etc. Ones right now you can play safe with basically.

The trouble i see with future languages is there is more likely to be a repeat of Spanish vocaloids then anything else... i think English vocaloids got it only thus far because they were here from the beginning. If they had entered the party now, they would be struggling more. :-/