Hatsune Miku has topped the pop charts in Japan, sold out stadium concerts and become a legitimate cultural phenomenon. The interesting thing is that Miku doesn't exist -- at least not in any traditional sense of the word. [color=#fd702b]Miku is a computer-generated avatar that performs songs with the help of a live band[/color]. But unlike say, Gorillaz, a cartoon band that merely serves as the public face of an artistic collective, everything about Miku comes from a computer. She is the product of a company called Crypton Future Media, which [color=#fd702b]synthesizes Miku's voice[/color] using Yamaha's Vocaloid software.

Creating the character -- which appears as a girl with blue pigtails and a cyberpunk version of the traditional Japanese school-girl uniform -- was a meticulous process. First, the creators recorded voice actress Saki Fujita making individual phonetic sounds at a specific pitch and tone. Then, they recombined the samples and fed them through the synthesis software to produce an almost endless number of words and sounds. Users can actually purchase a copy of Miku to run on their home PCs, and have her perform songs of their own creation.

hello

Idk if you're trying to say this is some kind of conspiracy.. I just find it to be cool. o.o

i know shits badass

Blue pigtails huh ...? reminds me of a certain sum1 ...^^

Originally posted by hanako

Originally posted by Whispario

^^ That one kills me!

Holograms like Cortana from Halo an shit?