Remember the experience and money you will need to pull off a Kickstarter. Both boxart artist and voice provider may require thousands of dollars to hire. For reference, Voxwave said they would need $9,300 USD to hire Poucet for their then-Vocaloid.

Where do the companies find the money to make Vocaloids ;_; ?!!

It's not that expensive for an established company, haha. (｡´ ∀｀)ﾉ But it's too much for your average sole trader.

Zero-G gives a set amount for a project, so the impact of 1 product will influence the next.

A lot of it is that these companies have spent years establishing themselves and building up influence and money to back larger and larger projects.

For example, Internet co prior to Miku was the no.1 on-line music software distributor in Japan and had held this title for several years. Only Miku changed that, putting CFM above them for the first time. This is why I believe Internet co got into vocaloid in the first place.

Wouldn't hurt to send them a message and see if they're interested assuming they're not busy with other projects. There's some spanish singers on YT that'd be nice to hear (and some of them have more subscribers than voctro labs' official YT account lol)

Indeed. However, grabbing Spanish Youtaite might be complicated due to some issues... We'd need to look at lesser known people. Like, it's the issue with this as it is with producing other Youtaite/Utaite VOCALOIDs. Get someone popularity and it starts a big fuss and leaves a potential bias. If we say... grab someone that has VOCALOID/UTAU experience, a good voice or desired vocal range, not very popular despite being very experienced, and can produce clear results, it would be great.

(Needless Ramble) Though if I could fund anyone to be voicing a new overseas VOCALOID, I'd suggest the twins HaruVampire and Sir Kenbi (these two remind me of Hikaru and Kaoru from Ouran waaaay too much xD), as those two have been in doing this sort of stuff for a long time (voicing UTAU and singing), plus if we got both of them, we'd have good range coverage because Haru's voice has a high, solid feel to it and falsetto, while Kenbi's voice leans to a low, sweet range.... but that's none of my business. *sips tea* The problem would be their accents are very heavy, like... MAIKA heavy. OTL Japanese is possible to get out them, though the vowels would suffer from being stronger than their consanants (though it seems a lot of VOCALOIDs suffer from this issue, so I'd suppose it's passable). (End Ramble)

I have no idea. We know it's roughly $10,000 to $15,000 to produce an English voicebank through PowerFX, I can't begin to imagine how expensive it is to have a Spanish voicebank. *curls up in a ball and cries*

Two ways:

1. Investors

2. Building up money and resources over many years of selling products. Most Vocaloid companies do not only sell Vocaloids, so will fund their Vocaloid through the profits made by their other enterprises.

A couple of grand isn't a crazy amoung of money for a business to raise, really. c':

Might cost more to hire them/give them a contract, but I'm sure there are great spanish singers on YT that do it professionally/part of a partnership program that don't identify as youtaite (which not everyone calls themselves it, it's kinda a recent term even though there were ppl who did vocaloid covers before hand) I can probably link to some good females and a couple of males in the 'community' (I think one person was in a band and even did some local news stuff so they might be used to doing more pro projects. Good luck though)

And then find a really good artist to commission and get into contact with some experienced users of the programs themselves to do demos (although unless they're bilingual I don't really know many composers who do fluent spanish songs [then again it's not a thing i really seek out since most of the new songs i hear are from what the translators upload.])

https://www.youtube.com/user/marianneaw/videos This person doesn't sing themselves but makes translyrics in Spanish for others to sing. Maybe if you can speak spanish you can get in contact with her and her group of friends and they'd be willing to spread the word, at the very least :)

Maybe... Laura Megurine might also be an option. She has really cute English and Spanish, though I think she's well known enough to be recognized by the community...