VOCALOID voice banks, on the other hand, are created by painstakingly recording a subject's speech patterns and storing them separately. Hatsune Miku's voice, for instance, is based on the voice of Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. To provide her voice for the voicebank, Fujita needs to s...
At a Hatsune Miku concert, that’s also the moment when the proceedings take a turn for the, well, the only precise way of saying it is for the Japanese. Miku is not human. She is a virtual idol, a holographic star. Miku is crowdsourced, ever-evolving, f
Hatsune MikuGet rid of all the weeaboos. Make them stop worshiping Miku as if she were a goddess. Make them stop assuming any other character with turquoise hair is a ripoff of Miku. Make them stop acting like she's the only Vocaloid character when there are plenty of others. Make ...
uploading music to the video site Nico Nico Douga under the name Hachi, and soon found his most successful tracks were the ones that used Vocaloids like Hatsune Miku. Like many artists in the digital age, Yonezu’s early work was entirely DIY, as thanks to Vocaloid he was able to produce...
Surrounded by heavily armed police, the 74-year-old preacher and four co-accused surrendered Sunday in his religious stronghold in the south. They were presented Monday to the press in orange detainee shirts and face covers with top officials warning on nationwide TV that “no one is above the...
I thought today might be a good day to have a little discussion about past experiences with how bad security in IT infrastructure is in the modern age. Over the years I have discovered and even gotten in trouble for discovering vulnerabilities in network
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great demographic shift as China’s post-80 and post-90 groups–both highly-educated digital natives–are coming of age, giving the marginalized ACG culture a demographic dividend. According to data from the company, the average user age is 17 years old, of which 75% were under the age of...
Popular vocaloids like Hatsune Miku were only given age and design. Why? Because Vocaloid is supposed to help people reach a wider audience without using their voice. Alternatively, you could make your character into an UTAUloid, because on UTAU it's possible to make an actual voicebank usin...