The merits of vocal synthesis are irrelevant in addressing the issue at hand. The fact is that the auto mode of generating synthesized vocals does not work at the moment.

I would be happy to hear mispronounced words with all kinds of artifacts. All I have been able to generate using the auto mode is the same "kih" syllable previously described. There is no hint of any kind of word pronunciation. I made a call to support last week and in real time he generated the same kind of file I have been getting, but sidestepped the issue by suggesting it might be a temporary problem with sinsy, a third party application.

On the other hand, I have been able to get more typical results using the manual process. Inserting the generated XML file into synsy and then importing the synthesized vocal wav file into RealBand or BIAB seems to work for some reason. I don't know what is different in the auto mode, but this could be a lot of fun and gets the creative juices flowing. I'm sure, like every other new feature, the kinks will be worked out, but we should not confuse what is being generated by the auto mode with the shortcomings of vocal synthesis.