I was hopeful that Liam would actually provide a native english voice with more of an alt rock feel. This was based on the demo track released.
I have started the 7 day demo of Liam and he has a southern twang, very noticeable on certain words. Has anyone figured out how to get rid of the twang? Or is the demo track released a while ago not using the final version of Liam?
This is a shame if the twang is always present.
Unlike Vocaloid 6 voices which are more flexible (in my opinion), Synth V 2 voices are more life-like and true to the originator of the voice! So you need to work with that and coax out what you best can achieveā¦
Itās true that Liam does have a strong American accent where the last letters are softer; the word āIā doesnāt have a British English diphthong ending i-yu and other words like āwillā have longer consonants and a shorter vowel - so you need to add it / adjust it manually.
With the advent of the bottom panel for visually tinkering with the length and volume of each sound, itās a breeze to get closer to what you want.
Iām starting to experiment with Liam and find his tone pleasantā¦ I feel he has a lot of potentialā¦
Yes, Iāve been working with him and have been making progress. The accent is much more noticeable as you pitch him down in the gender settings so I have to live without the deeper sounding voice I was attempting.
[Itās true that Liam does have a strong American accent where the last letters are softer; the word āIā doesnāt have a British English diphthong ending i-yu and other words like āwillā have longer consonants and a shorter vowel]
I likewise have found these characteristics quite pleasant and welcomed for the more pop/rock/R&B style music that I do. Many of the voices thus far have sounded too āproperā and too classically-trained sounding IMO for use with pop music.
I didnāt spend a whole lot of time tweaking this test run of Liam I did, but found him quite suitable for this type music for my taste and in the realm of the original singer Dennis Yost who was part of the Southeast US music scene.
Great little song ! Loved it !! 
Weāre from Texas and we think thereās nothing wrong with a good Southern accent, yāall. But Liam doesnāt sound Southern to usāhe sounds like he is from New England or even Canada.
Iām about to choose Liam as my V2 voice, but from the samples Iāve heard thatās not enough to really be a southern accent. That being said, can someone point me to tips on making a southern accent with the Synthesizer V voices? I have a client requesting to make some country songs, would be nice to give him mock-ups with a southern twang suitable for countryā¦
There is a 7 day trial you can do that gives you around 40 notes of each group (something like that). With Liam, I found as you move the gender slider to the right to get a deeper voice, the accent becomes more noticeable. I found a drawl appearing on words like ātaskā and āpassā and also ātimeā.
Iāve lived half my life in Boston and half my life in Atlanta. I donāt hear any southern accent at all in Liam. Not so sure Iād call it a New England accent either (definitely not Boston where we pahk our cah.)
I added the Liam voice anyway, as I think Iāll find the voice useful for other things. While I havenāt played with it, Iād be happy to be wrong, but I donāt think even if thereās a little drawl itāll get that ācountryā voiceā¦ Iāll try it out though. Iām thinking that what Iām looking for would be more of a dictionary type or something, but I have barely dipped my toes into the deep details of the softwareā¦
i like his voice - i swapped him out (temporarily with Kevin) in a country song. there are a few things folks mentioned about the āenhancedā country embellishments (not great but can be tempered with some phonome tweaking), and he needs more de-essing (although i will likely reduce some of it in the performance). but there are some nice affectations esp using the āhoarseā mode which really gives a nice grit to the vocal.