Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Cover of Vonda Shepard's "Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow" as performed by Gumi's English voicebank. This is my first project with Gumi English since I purchased her just a few hours ago. This time I took Avanna's version, replaced the vocals, then edited the text and tuning. I quickly learned here how really weird her pronounciation rules and systems are - trying to concatenate several notes together so she would pronounce one syllable or vowel across them is tricky and requries special tinkering (otherwise she would pronounce each note like she was starting each vowel new from each breath!), quirks I didn't find with Avanna or even Luka Megurine's English voicebank. And futhermore, I'm not exactly pleased with her voice quality - this English variant clearly is pretty much modelled from Gumi's "Native" voicebank, which is notable for being very husky, resulting in what I consider a very teeny and soft voice. I actually like her Power voicebank more, and I kinda wish Internet Co would develop another English Voicebank from that version. And lastly, even her "English" itself, though understandably accented thanks to Megumi Nakajima being Japanese, still to me has room for improvement, and I believe I could get better sounding "Engrish" from other Japanese vocaloids, including Gumi's aformentioned Power voicebank (which I put to great effect in my other project here - youtu.be/YDEd_7wCukY ). Nevertheless not bad overall, and perhaps just needs even more tuning and tinkering.

Subtitles added using Windows Movie Maker 2.6

Disclamer: I do not own the song "Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow"