[Open-Sourcery]

I agree with a lot of people in this thread, vocaloid music can be really great and a lot of the great music takes advantage over the slightly robotic or unusual sounds it can produce. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92c6pl10u0). But it almost never actually sounds human, my favourite example is very good but still not quite there (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QoqcsrRgc)

I have recently found Synth V, which uses AI trained on a singer and it can produce shockingly good results. It can also still used to produce similar sounds to vocaloids as well.

Here are some of my favourite Synth V covers and songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU_CG_FF6WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKOSQGKn5Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShG8Ij6_Hbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXv_vKX6Y-0

[hatsunearu]

The near-universal understanding in the fandom is that Vocaloid is a not a replacement for human voice, nor is it really aiming to be some sort of faithful emulation of it; rather it is "its own thing", like how a Piano isn't an emulation of human voice, nor is a DAW a replacement for a guitar or whatever.

[Open-Sourcery]

But for those that wanted an artificial singer, as far as I know there weren't really any more realistic sounding alternatives. It's nice now that instead of spending so much effort tuning vocaloids to sound realistic there is an alternative.

And knowing the limitations of vocaloid never stopped anyone from trying. Mitchie M is a great example.