Not quite sure why these corporate events always have to be so painful to watch, but the technology is impressive. Makes me wonder: if Adobe's close to turning this into a product you can run on your home computer, then which other organizations already have similar technology deployed? What could the CIA do with a few choice edits to a leaked recording, for example? You have to suspect that similar technologies may be in use outside of the public view.
Up until about 2 years ago it only ran on Windows, which kept most of the music-making world from fucking with it. Up until last year it only spoke Japanese with no real English port for any of its instructions. Means that if you wanted to do something not in Japanese you had to use Japanese phonemes and katakana instruction and it was kinda tortuous. Also, there are few things as fuckin' Otaku Japanese as Vocaloid. now with bonus Archer clip