What is hatsune mikus first name

At first we at Crypton worked with Yamaha, which had developed the software, on a product for English-speaking markets. Crypton had well-established connections with sound production companies overseas and we initially planned to get in touch with several companies and develop the product in English, and then in Japanese, Spanish, and other languages.

But we found that development for the English-speaking market did not go very well. There seemed to be resistance--perhaps deriving from religious beliefs--to the idea of "humans creating humanoids. First I explored what would be effective marketing methods, given the impression made by the word Vocaloid.

Since synthesized sounds are often used in SF movies, I decided the theme should have an SF or futuristic character. I also wanted to draw from the images of female androids that have been created by Japan's SF culture as well as graphic styles from anime and manga.

Vocaloid and Vocalo are trademarks of Yamaha Corporation. First, I insisted that the voice be clear and bright--because, after all, a high-pitched, bright voice is well suited to a futuristic image.

Looking back over the history of Japanese popular music, the popular singer "idols" of a few decades ago--like Yamaguchi Momoe and Nakamori Akina--tended to sing in low registers. The voices of more recent popular singers--Onyanko Club, Morning Musume, AKB48, and the voice actresses--have become quite a bit higher in register and lighter in quality.

We can see that trend not just in Japan, in fact, but worldwide. I think the voices will become even higher-pitched in the future. And I wanted the voice to be lively. The recorded female voices you hear in taxis or trains in Japan are mechanical or synthetic sounds and have an artificial, lifeless quality. As a child, I recall hearing television narrators who spoke in an overbearing, non-human-sounding tone--that seemed kind of scary to me.

The announcements over the school PA system I heard in junior high school were somewhat artificial, but the voices actually sounded rather sweet. What I wanted to aim for was that latter quality. To create Vocaloid, we record a human voice and then create a library of sound fragments for Japanese phonemes.

The software makes the Vocaloid sing by combining those sounds. In the process of mechanical manipulation of the sounds in order to smooth the transitions between the sounds, some qualities of the original voice are lost. The intonation, too, is slightly flatter than that of a human singer.

What you get, therefore, is a voice with slightly different traits than the original voice. We came to understand our Vocaloid as a "virtual singer" with a distinctive voice different from what a human being would have. So, I first began to search for the voice that would be the base for the Vocaloid.

I listened to CDs of the voice actresses affiliated with the three major voice acting production studios and also collected CDs for newcomer voice actresses. Out of all those I chose the young voice actress Fujita Saki. Her voice is quite high, but also strong and good on the sustained notes. Vocaloid is an advanced voice synthesizer software. Musicians can input melodies and lyrics and the program, like a virtual signer, will perform it to produce new songs.

Hatsune Miku is one the digital voices musicians can use, and to promote her, Crypton Future Media gave Hatsune Miku a profile and personality. She emerged as a year-old singing android who reintroduced the skills to the world. Although there are other Vocaloids, Hatsune Miku is perhaps the most well-known. Part of the reason that Hatsune Miku is so popular is that she was created to be collaborative. So far, Crypton Future Media boasts that over , songs have been produced using her vocal software.

The popularity of Hatsune Miku has led to a staggering variety of merchandise—and not just action figures, but also products such as video games and lingerie. The virtual singer has become a veritable pop star in her own right. Reflecting Hatsune's popularity with professional and amateur users, her vocals have been used on over , released songs, including tracks by Supercell , Absorb, and Livetune.

Hatsune Miku, became the first vocaloid album to top the charts when it debuted in May Hatsune's voice was also used on the original version of the Nyan Cat song, which was uploaded to the Japanese video site Niconico that July. To complete her pop star persona, she performs in concert as an animated projection and made her on-stage debut in August at Animelo Summer Live.