Examples of Vocaloids who may be affected by this include Sonika who has a British accent and Big Al who has an American also included in this is Luka Megurine who will retain a Japanese accent. In fact, the only effect this will have on the Vocaloid is simply a particular stress or emphasis on certain vowels and consonants that may not be seen in another English Vocaloid, but may make an English Vocaloid sound not how a user expects. This will not affect any of the Vocaloids' overall performance or the handling of the VOCALOID engine and they will use identical Phonemes regardless. On the contrary, the same things can happen to English Vocaloids and they often have English accents when they sing in other languages.Īnother consideration with English Vocaloids is their regional accent.
These differences between two languages frequently make Japanese Vocaloids retain a Japanese accent when there is no perfectly equivalent phonemes, even if users manage them to sing in the correct language. In addition, the English language often puts emphasis on certain letters of words (stress accent) while the Japanese language frequently use pitch accents. It is also important to know that the symbols suggested by the X-SAMPA couldn't match their actual pronunciations leading to some errors for instance, the Vocaloid symbol correspond to the /ʃ/ in English Vocaloids and /ɕ/ in Japanese ones, basically Japanese "a" is a low central vowel and is between the English "a" in "father" and the English "a" in "dad", and "r" in Japanese is not as same as either "r" or "l" in English.
Because of this, some of Japanese Vocaloids’ consonant sounds slightly contain vowel sounds to be smooth and sound right in Japanese when they are connected to the following vowels. As each consonant sound is always followed by inseparable vowels and consonants do not get in cluster in the Japanese language, generally each of them is pronounced weakly and not independently, except んn, sokuon and some transliterated phonemes for non-Japanese words.
Due to the set up of the Japanese Vocaloids, they are more limited for the use of the English language, since the phonology of the Japanese language including phonemes, accents, tones, intonations, moras and assimilations, is very different from that of the English language.
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