I noticed that part of the bumf for the Vocaloid4 engine mentions that it has a new setting called Pitch Snap Mode, which, and I quote, "easily generates a robot-like voice." Yes, evidently, Vocaloid now sounds lifelike enough that they felt they had to add a special mode to make it sound autotuned again. :)

As far as the characters go, I find myself becoming rather partial to Gumi, who, despite being (as far as I can tell?) The Competition, has appeared in at least one ultra-cute duet with Miku. (I realize these things are all unofficial, but still. How adorable is that? Particularly their interactions toward the end.)

The MMD modeling technology (which, I gather, is rather less official than the voice libraries?) is also farther along than I would have thought. This one is more than three years old now, for instance, and look at how facially expressive the model is. Presumably they're even better now.

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