I only have experience with Avanna and Megpoid English (GUMI) as far as English library Vocaloids are concerned. Of the two, Avanna produces more accurate pronunciations based on the default dictionary but has an annoying problem where her vowels sound muffled while her consonants are too strong. GUMI has a Japanese accent and the default dictionary is partially unreliable so her pronunciations are decent, OK, and pretty horrible depending on the word. Bvh Files For Iclone. But, with practice, you can make GUMI and Avanna sound very good.

As for 'ease of use', the mere act of using a Vocaloid is almost trivial. Lay out your notes, select them, insert lyrics, and hope the built-in dictionary catches all the words you use properly. Then play back the results.

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Will they sound 'decent'? Well.That's the hard part about Vocaloids is getting them to sound how you want them to. Every Vocaloid has weird flaws unique to them and knowing those flaws and how to work around them, is a learning experience. A bit of advice: stop using the default dictionary. If you want to learn Vocaloid and use it most effectively it is most important to learn your Voicebank, its phonemes, and each individual's quirks.

As you get more experience in Vocaloid the dictionary's limitations will really stand out to you and you will find yourself manually correcting it more and more till eventually you just type the phonemes you want rather than expecting the computer to guess what you need, then fixing it later. Its not for beginners but there comes a time where you will hit a wall as a producer, when you reach that point, and then progress past it, you will be making your first real step to truly great original works. Regarding GUMI The default dictionary that comes with the TINY editor for all V3 English Vocaloids (which I can't remember if you can or can't edit with custom words) and the full V3 Editor (which you can edit) makes GUMI pronounce many words incorrectly to my ears. Provided a downloadable custom dictionary to fix some of the problems but I still ended up just editing nearly every phoneme phonetic symbol myself.

(You can also download other people's custom dictionary if they provide it.) There are also some phoneme phonetic symbol combinations that aren't allowed in the dictionary which is very annoying (thank for that Yamaha.). For those words I always have to manually enter in the phonemes phonetic symbols in the editor. Regarding Avanna Yes you can fix the vowel and consonant issues with editing. You might know by now that there are parameters that adjust how a vowel is reproduced. Things like volume (DYN), pitch (PIT), breathiness (BRE), clarity (CLE and BRI), and so forth. There's also the meticulous editing of notes and making full use of the hidden phonetic symbols that Yamaha forgot to publish in their manual. What this all comes down to is you have to test and play with the Vocaloid you have to see what it's flaws are and different ways to overcome it.

It's the difference between just making your Vocaloid sound barely understandable to practically human. You can force GUMI to sound out the transitions by inserting the [w] phonetic symbol (its' the W as in Why did Internet Co. Not program GUMI's Vowel Vowel transistion?) between two vowels. Just make the [w] duration the shortest possible. Seems to work fairly well for me. There are other combinations you can use to create those transitions too. By the way, Megpoid Power, for example, has the vowel vowel transitions so I really don't know what Internet Co.