haha i noticed that too

In case you’re wondering: American in this episode is Tom Cruise from Magnolia (if it isn’t mentioned in the episode)

I don’t understand how my credit is tarnished for that. Remind me to kiss Miku’s ass more in my next post.

Japanese has the advantage of being *extremely* sonorous. The language sounds good because vowels consume every second or third letter of their language (vowels are the most sonorous letters – I’ve taken numerous linguistics courses). English will be hard because it starts sentences with a bunch of consonants at times (ie; ‘str’eet) – this will [...]

Mmmm, meaning by English Miku will be saying “I lub you”?

Can’t wait. It’s not that hard to find a cute sounding singer to be the sample for an English Miku. Think of the songs in Persona 3 and 4, you can’t make out what she’s saying half of the time. I think a [...]

That would ruin it. Unless the voice can *perfectly* enunciate her “L”‘s, and (as I described before, the different “A” sounds required for English, it’ll be a waste of time to make if they make a Japanese sounding English girl. I’m worried. I can’t wait to hear it, but I’m worried. English is *not* easy [...]

I hope so… English-speaking problems still sound very-drone like. I *hope* to be impressed – but it definitely won’t be easy.

I agree comepletely. I think it’s great that fans can contribute music – but the fact is her virtual voice is no where near real sounding to a real idol. Her voice sounds like a poor synthesizer. The fact they want to make an English one will likely sound worse if it’s this “hollow” sounding [...]