Crypton to develop English-language Vocaloid software

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I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Singing ayo! DOUBLE RAINBOW!

I'm glad to say I actively participated in giving Miku an English voice. Now I just wonder... who will 'voice' her? Hayley Williams? Christina Aguleira? Willow Smith?

Mari Hikiko

hmm.. before I was happy about an English Miku..
but I think I'm now a bit weary as to what songs are going to be made with Miku in English.. I'm hoping we don't get a bunch of top-40 pop covers like gaga or... whatevers in right now.

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jel x

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. If I remember the seiyuu that her voice is based on said she would learn English for it, but I'm not sure if that would work. If it turns out well I would definitely be interested in giving it a spin though.

Corti

>Aquagaze
I think I remember hearing that the person whose voice was used for the soundbanks is going to stay the same.

Rewarp

@Mari Hikiko
If they start doing that, more likely than not people will start comparing the two versions. It's going to be interesting when people even agree the two are comparable.

TruthTellah

There are already is an English Vocaloid.

Her name is Ke$ha.

thatguyukno

Please jebus no, vocaloid's are the most useless and retarded waist of time ever. You hate the top 40 now, wait till you get the Justin Beiber vocaloid singing covers of Journey! This can not end well, all people working on this should be dragged out into the street and shot.

matty

@TruthTellah: Zap & Roger would like a word with you! Or Ke$ha...

This is cool. I'd want to see someone mix in Miku with Easy E.

TheUndeadFish

Ok how many days do you think it will take until there is a miku version of 36 mafia's loli loli up on youtube? My bets are on 10 days.

Mari Hikiko

@TheUndeadFish well, there's no stopping them...

however, still an 'ew', nonetheless, lol

Heero Yuy

So, do you guys really think they're going to keep using Saki Fujita's voice for the sound data and just add the other pronunciation sounds that Japanese lacks compared to English? or do you think we'll get a totally different character and voice?

Something tells me Fujita-san would have a lot of trouble trying to fill in the gaps of vocaloid's existing audio database...

Kougeru

if they change the voice it wont be Miku. my main issue with this is that japanese FLOWs really well as music, especially compared to english.

Itsa Timmy

I guess I should post this link because its related or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn3eyrM0ztM

Rohalmen

I still want the damn supercell miku album. >< If I can get that, I don't care what they do.

Uzza

@All the people questioning whether Saki Fujita will still be the voice provider

It was mentioned by Crypton (on twitter I think) that Saki Fujita had agreed to take English lessons.
So it is pretty much a safe bet that she will do the voice for English Miku.
Besides, I think even Crypton knows that picking a different person to do the voice would make it so that she doesn't sound like Miku anymore.

A perfect example is Big-Al, they switched from Michael King to Frank Sanderson in the middle of recording, because King was too busy with touring to come in and do more recording, and you can very easily hear the difference.

Michael King Big-Al:
http://www.jasminemusic.com/vocaloid/mp3/PowerFX.mp3

Frank Sanderson Big-Al:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YYtIevHVPc

HiddenTruth

This is awesome news! If I have the money when it comes out, I would definitely get the software.

Crypton to develop English-language Vocaloid software

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