Hatsune miku

Now the japanese have always come up with interesting ideas and technology and this one is about hatsune miku here is a video of her below



Now as the video shows she isn't real but that is not the point i am raising today what i want to talk about is the software called Vocaloid and this is the description from http://www.vocaloid.com/en/about/
"Vocaloid is a technology for singing voice synthesis developed by Yamaha, and the name of this software application. The software allows users to input melody and lyrics in order to synthesize singing. In other words, with this technology, singing can be produced without a singer.
Singing voice synthesis is produced by using fragments of voices recorded from actual singers, called the Singer Library. By changing this Singer Library, various voices such as Miku Hatsune and Gakupoid are able to be created. There are countless musical pieces that have been uploaded to Nico Video and Youtube that use these products."

So the reason i decided to talk about Vocaloid is because i find it interesting and i believe it won't just be a passing fad so to speak. A few people use the vocaloid as backing singers so thankfully it won't be just for lead singers since they would be to similar in my opinion. The thing that amazed me was how you wouldn't have to worry about them being sick or losing their voice since it is all computer generated. I would love to get the program just so i could play around with it and create new voices to use in video games and animations.