User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/So people finally are getting it.../@comment-76.25.74.205-20130824212749/@comment-53539-20130825073940

From experience at talking to him myself, its not the faults of English in particular that he won't let go, he didn't even want to acknowledge the faults of the Japanese, Spanish, Korean or Chinese vocaloids. And though some things haven't changed since V1, this was again because the Japanese vocaloids got a lot of attention.

His usually also quite weak at forming statements and lacks anything solid beyond opinion to back things up with. Without this, he is no expert at all. Heck, I work with English vocaloids and while I don't know every fault I can talk about them more then he can.

There have been improvements between vocaloids though at their core, Avanna is definitely a LOT better then the V2 vocals, but again "that guy" doesn't want to accept that as he just labels her as a pile of crap. Even if Yamaha doesn't change the software itself the Vocaloid companies have certain experiences that let them do stuff to improve this software.

Vocaloid fans have relied on telling folks like Anders wants wrong with each vocaloid so he can pass on information back to Yamaha, but as far as we can tell Yamaha are not exactly easy to deal with... They tend to leave people in the dark and sometimes their the soul reason why a vocaloid abroad doesn't get released as soon as possible as everyone in a particular studio is left waiting for a response that may take a month to even come back to them.

With the Japanese version doing so well and the English version only just beginning to pick up, Yamaha's focus isn't on English for a good reason I guess... Heck... They didn't even bother getting their vocaloid english website updated through the whole V2 gen and the last update to it was to mention Ann was on her way or something about her. So from 2007-2012 they just didn't seem to care much at all.

Its not until 2009 we get Zero-G and PowerFX attempting to bridge the gaps between fans and studio either so there is problems there too.

Still, my concerns are at Spanish and Korean vocaloids right now. Spanish got jabbed for their "ugly" boxarts for Bruno and Clara at first and Korean vocaloids right now seem to be a little bit unpromising... :-/