Talk:Vocaloid 2

Prima undine.

> Prima was a female English vocal released by Zero-G Ltd. She possessed the voice of a female Soprano opera singer and sang in English.

This doesn't make sense. Either you speak italian or may as well go home, when it comes to singing in operas. The vast majority of operas were written in italian, even by foreign composers, like Mozart. Alas, long gone are the days, when it was deemed acceptable to sing operas in national language "dubs" on stage, just to please the uneducated audience.

Opera librettos not in italian are in german (~Wagner) and the lack of any vocaloids with german tongue skill is one of the basic tenets of vocaloid ecosystem. In fact, the pro demos available for Prima are sung in italian, like Voi che sapete, so why does the article call her an english language vocaloid? 82.131.144.22 (talk) 23:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The system used to manage her phonemes was recorded with English in mind so the English language phoneme bank of sorts must be used if you want her to approximate a different language ~2026-27004-69 (talk) 09:12, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

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35 vocal libraries

"In total, there were 35 vocal libraries produced for Vocaloid 2; 17 in the Japanese version, and five in the English version."

Math????? STIK2009 (talk) 14:01, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

"Vocaloid 2 based its output on vocal samples, rather than voice analysis."

This is not true. This seems to imply that VOCALOID 1 used a purely physical model, but this is obviously not true given that VOCALOID 1 used performance sampling databases (AKA voicebanks). Furthermore, the research behind VOCALOID 1 is public, and it shows that it used a Phase-locked Vocoder, which is not a purely physical model.[1]

[1] https://www.isca-archive.org/maveba_2003/bonada03_maveba.pdf ~2026-18069-33 (talk) 06:11, 23 March 2026 (UTC)