Forum - View topicINTEREST: Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku to Help Teach English
|
Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Kicksville
 Posts: 1250 |
|
||
|
...I see they're off to a great start, with that image there.
|
|||
|
|||
Sakurazuka_Reika
 Posts: 527 |
|
||
Ah, damn. You beat me to it 
|
|||
|
|||
firedragon54738
 Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
|
||
|
Why cant Miku teach Japanese now that would be some thing
|
|||
|
|||
enurtsol
 Posts: 14889 |
|
||
|
OH NOEZ! They gonna learn Engrish...........
|
|||
|
|||
Nineofclubs
 Posts: 78 |
|
||
|
road rolla!
|
|||
|
|||
Kimiko_0
 Posts: 1796 Location: Leiden, NL, EU |
|
||
|
Yeah, Miku isn't exactly the best example one can give students of English. She's near unintelligible most of the time when singing in English. Luka is only a little bit better.
|
|||
|
|||
MasterGhost
 Posts: 125 |
|
||
|
I was thinking "Hey! This is great!" and then I saw "comming soon". Words cannot describe my feelings for now.
|
|||
|
|||
Mohawk52
 Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
|
||
|
It seems you guys aren't aware that Crypton Future Media co-creators of these two vocaloids, are working on an English version of Hatsune Miku running on the new version 3 platform, and that will be released "in Spring of 2012". But I agree I thought the same thing when I saw that picture with the misspelling.
Luka already has a "sort of English sounding" voice bank, but it's more Engrish than English, and it was originally developed for use with songs not coherant enough to use as a teaching aid. however having said that Luka was still more coherant than Miku which is even more incoherant in English, hense the language upgrade. Crypton have even paid for English lessons for Fujita Saki Miku's original voice sample for the English version. We have yet to hear any proper example of the English version thought there was what was billed as an "English Sample" during Crypton's panel in NYC, but it was very controversial as to whether it was Miku, or a sample of the Kaito Append VB. It was a very poor example and Crypton never varified. [EDIT]I need a spell chequer too. 
Last edited by Mohawk52 on Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:33 am; edited 2 times in total |
|||
|
|||
|
GhostShell
Posts: 1009 Location: Richmond, B.C., Canada |
|
||
|
I wasn't too thrilled when I saw the misspelling either. The only thing I can think of, other than the obvious, was that it was an intentional play on "comm"unicate (isn't that a Vocaloid's function?), but that would probably be stretching it a bit.
Edit: Corrected typo. Last edited by GhostShell on Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:06 am; edited 1 time in total |
|||
|
|||
ratchet573
 Posts: 14 |
|
||
|
Yeah, I read the title, clicked the link, looked at the picture, and facepalmed.
|
|||
|
|||
|
ronelm2000
Posts: 56 |
|
||
|
I sense a dark future in this.
 (for the students, I mean)
Comming soon huh...(o to u *cough*) |
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group