User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/End of Year Vocaloid most/least favs/@comment-27278302-20151226101312/@comment-53539-20151227115702

The problem was back in V2, realism was something people wanted to be important. For me, I drew the conclusion based on the tech being relatively "new" and western individuals being used to syns that produced less realistic vocals then Vocaloid. When it came to English vocals, the veil of illusion fell and they were reminded more of what they'd come to expect of syns; robotic and unnatural sounding.

English being a complex language also didn't help because of how difficult it is to produce a single voicebank. With Japanese, it was simple, plus their culture seems to be more accepting of technology then the west. one of the reasons I always said how important English vocal are though is because of that complexity... With every new language conquered, the more impressive the software gets. Yamaha gets not only more bragging rights but also more of a ground over other syns. If they don't produce these languages like English, then they risk loosing ground to a syn that may cover it better. So there is a entire market at stake here.

People are going to have to accept that things will get better, but things will also be rough with this tech until then. Its just a crying shame that some vocals will be left in the past... :-/

I always get afraid people will think I'm against Meiko or something, but as I said nobody had ever given me a reason that was significant to hate her. Then again... In the other direction, nobody has ever convinced me of what makes her stand out. In my opinion, there isn't a real reason to hate her beyond personnel music preferences, headcanons and misinformation.

I cannot express my concern over the lack of updates to the Engloid 3. Especially when Miriam Stock-however-its-spelt is willing. The V2's an survive for a while now and still can be put into the V4 engine but the V1's that are lost are at this rate never going to be found.