With many developers and distributors having seemingly halted their production or jumped ship from Vocaloid 5 this generation, what do you think the future will hold for, not just new voicebanks with new characters, but pre-existing established Vocaloids we already know and love? As of right now, It looks like a lot of production is finding its way on to alternate engines (Cevio AI, SynthV, Neutrino) to develop and distribute. For a while, I was optimistic that we'd see a new V5 by now, or at least an update at this point, but things are starting to look not so great. Although nothing is ever concrete, over the years we have seen Internet Co, Gynoid, AH-Soft, Vocalomarkets, SSS, Aria/First Place, Power FX, Zero-G, Voctro Labs, and Crypton Future Media all either abandon or halt their Vocaloid projects, and those are only of the groups we do know of that have done or said anything since. When it comes to producing and selling voicebanks, it becomes very obvious that vtubing is the current hot trend, what with every new Voice Synth character coming out with their own talk database, so Cevio AI must be looking pretty good to many of these developers right about now.
My last hope for the Vocaloid engine itself, was for us to see continued support in the forms of updates or new voicebanks for Vocaloids that had maybe at least reached middling popularity status at some point, like some of Internet's Vocaloids, but that isn't looking like its going to happen. My biggest hope for V5 right out of the gate was in Gynoid and AHS with their MEIKA and Sora packages, but now that C Flower is a thing, and AHS having outright said that they will no longer develop future Vocaloids, things are looking kind of bleak for new commercial Vocaloid packages. I'm confident that Yamaha won't be completely dropping their vocal synthesis technology any time soon, and there may even actually be a Vocaloid 6 one day that probably strays even more off of the path that they've been going on for a few years now (catering primarily to edm loop users). I do know about Vocaloid AI and Charlie, but neither of them seem like they will be sold as usable traditional Vocaloid packages any time soon. I don't know what is currently going on with the supposed Vsinger V5 updates that were announced ages ago, but ST Media has been quiet on their new Korean vocal. After UNI and SeeU English, I don't trust anything they say anymore lol.
Personally for me, I really hope Gynoid continues to develop for Vocaloid despite the creation of C Flower, because their Vocaloids are my personal favorites, and Cevio is so unaccessible when it comes to overseas Vocaloid fans like us, especially if you're a Mac user like me lol. I hope I also get to see GUMI and (internet)co either stay with a new updated V5/6, or move on to SynthV. I wouldn't mind a new update from Yamaha themselves either, as their one off projects like ZOLA, Sachiko and Fukase were great new additions imo, but they haven't released a new voicebank since V5's launch.. My hopes for anything new native English Vocaloid related is completely dead, but I would love to see one again some day too.
And if none of that comes to pass, welp, at least we still have SynthV!
My last hope for the Vocaloid engine itself, was for us to see continued support in the forms of updates or new voicebanks for Vocaloids that had maybe at least reached middling popularity status at some point, like some of Internet's Vocaloids, but that isn't looking like its going to happen. My biggest hope for V5 right out of the gate was in Gynoid and AHS with their MEIKA and Sora packages, but now that C Flower is a thing, and AHS having outright said that they will no longer develop future Vocaloids, things are looking kind of bleak for new commercial Vocaloid packages. I'm confident that Yamaha won't be completely dropping their vocal synthesis technology any time soon, and there may even actually be a Vocaloid 6 one day that probably strays even more off of the path that they've been going on for a few years now (catering primarily to edm loop users). I do know about Vocaloid AI and Charlie, but neither of them seem like they will be sold as usable traditional Vocaloid packages any time soon. I don't know what is currently going on with the supposed Vsinger V5 updates that were announced ages ago, but ST Media has been quiet on their new Korean vocal. After UNI and SeeU English, I don't trust anything they say anymore lol.
Personally for me, I really hope Gynoid continues to develop for Vocaloid despite the creation of C Flower, because their Vocaloids are my personal favorites, and Cevio is so unaccessible when it comes to overseas Vocaloid fans like us, especially if you're a Mac user like me lol. I hope I also get to see GUMI and (internet)co either stay with a new updated V5/6, or move on to SynthV. I wouldn't mind a new update from Yamaha themselves either, as their one off projects like ZOLA, Sachiko and Fukase were great new additions imo, but they haven't released a new voicebank since V5's launch.. My hopes for anything new native English Vocaloid related is completely dead, but I would love to see one again some day too.
And if none of that comes to pass, welp, at least we still have SynthV!