I've been reading threads on vocal synths from audio forums outside the community, and it's awesome to see how drastically more positive they became after Synthesizer V AI was released. It's probably the first time I've seen people legitimately impressed by the quality of an English synthesized voice.
It's also interesting because it reveals the main hurdles people interested in Synth V struggle with:
1. Simply not knowing the program exists until stumbling into it. The lack of marketing aimed at professionals has made the vocal synth community an iron clad bubble that most producers aren't aware of.
2. Bad SEO leading them to the page for R1, I myself only found Eleanor AI's lite through a Reddit thread.
3. Outdated documentation: the manual being misleadingly out of date and buyers not realising Anri and Solaria exist because they aren't on Dreamtonic's website are major problems.
4. Further buying confusion due to each voicebank being sold on a separate website, and needing to go through different retailers to get all the software you need.
5. Some legitimate reasons they prefer Emvoice, such Synth V lacking the ability to record notes with an external MIDI controller, and being generally harder to get into. The most common word is 'confusion'.
In every thread there's one expert user who hand-holds each producer through the process of obtaining and using Synthesizer V - Dreamtonics seriously owes them one, haha. I also noted quite a few people asking for rougher, less pop-orientated voices (e.g. an older country singer, or a husky rock voice); so I desperately hope Synth V doesn't play it as safe as CeVIO. Overall, the reception to Synth V is extremely positive from musicians outside the community.