


The system includes 4 glides which allows to perform all the diphthongs of the Spanish. Instead, the system includes the respective glides or semivowels of the "weak" vowels ( and ) which allows it to perform the diphthongs when combined with the corresponding vowels. In comparison to other languages such as English or Korean, the system doesn't includes diphones for the diphthongs. The system includes the 5 vowels of Spanish. Phonetic System's Characteristics Vowels The following are a list of Vocaloids that use Spanish. Generally, most Spanish Speakers seem able to understand Spanish Vocaloids fairly adeptly enough to use them with little problem. However, while it is noteworthy that accents can exist in Spanish Vocaloids, it is not considered currently as problematic as with other languages. For example, the first 3 Vocaloids, all were noted for their Castilian Spanish accents. Spanish is a language that can be impacted by accents at times. It depends on the recording method used on the voicer, type of sound being recorded per sample (accent impact varies per sample and language), and overall number of samples that make up the voicebank (the more samples, the more chance of it slipping in). VOCALOID will capture any form of accent quite easily at times. Genres such as Opera are most likely to make a accent appear almost entirely absent thanks to the impact of the opera vibrato. Singing also uses different muscles to speech, resulting in difference of air pressure and way the throat moves. Samples include genres such as western or country, black music such as Jazz or Soul. However, the reason many are led to believe this is that there are several methods of training singers to disguise or otherwise hide their natural accents - they may even adopt an accent that isn't their own for singing.

Notes on Accent ĭespite the general belief that singers completely lose their accents when they sing, this is not the case in every instance and an accent is possible to be heard even in singing vocals. The language also has 29 possible allophones and 841 theorically possible combinations, requiring only 521 to cover more of the 99.99% of the concurrences within the language. They are characterized by their 'ah' to 'uh' sound quality and they positioned in the bottom of the IPA vowel chart.The Spanish language has only 5 vowel sounds and 18 consonants.

The relative position/pronunciation of the vowels, may vary according the regional accent/dialect. Vowel chart for English, showing the rough position of the monothongs along with the respective IPA's symbols (black) and symbols for VOCALOID (gray).
