Those of you who were fortunate enough to attend the Vocaloid Conference panel at the New York Comic Con last weekend were shown a real treat. Not only was an early test of Miku’s English voice banks shown, but Kaito as well! The news on development was confirmed back at the Anime Expo 2011 Vocaloid Conference on July 2nd, but it was too early to have any sort of demo available at the time.

For those who didn’t attend the conference at Anime Expo 2011, here’s a quick rundown of what happened. During the conference, the Crypton Producer Wataru Sasaki asked the audience if we were interested in seeing the release of an English Miku. Almost none of us raised our hands, but you honestly can’t blame us. We were simply being cautiously skeptical until we saw any real demos to make a decision.

Well, us as fans can rest assured. This demo not only shows her sounding just as cute as her Japanese voice banks, but actual distinguishable English words! Please read the full story, as this post is a bit large. (more…)

It seems like French Hatsune Miku fans and Otakus are currently very upset about this.

Thankfully someone added a version with subtitles to youtube, so go check it out and judge for yourself. This is what happens with bad or no research.

Most likely one of the best fan productions this year. Very high quality PV. Enjoy!

After almost two months of silence Crypton has released the last bits of info about the upcoming 3rd character to the Vocaloid series. CV03: Megurine Luka will be released on 30th January 2009. It is already available for preorder at the Crypton online shop at 15750 Yen (~168 USD).

Her voice will be sampled by the seiyuu Asakawa Yuu. VC03 is supposed to support both English and Japanese. As of now its unknown if both English and Japanese will be featured in the same package or if they will be released seperately.

For the full character illustration art by KEI and her full profile check out the official Crypton Megurine Luka page.

Via Canned Dogs

As Canned Dogs reports, Crypton has posted first samples of the upcoming addition to the Vocaloid2 series. There have been no further details revealed about the third character installment in the series yet, but at least now we know what it will sound like!

Head over to Crypton’s official blog to listen to the samples.