VOCALOID

Ever heard of the phenomena known as VOCALOIDISM? Do you wonder what it is?

After some recent events, I do think that I should blog more about anime and jpop. Here I would be introducing you to the world of Vocaloid!

Vocaloid is a product from the Yamaha voice synthesizer technology. With this software and a few other tools, you could now write a song and have the said software to sing it for you! As such, Vocaloid is sold with the concept of singer-in-box.

As you can see above there is a drawing of a girl. That girl is the virtual character Hatsune Miku, one of the most popular Vocaloids existing in the market. Of course Vocaloids also cover male voices. But to be honest, most of the Vocaloid2 series could not sing English songs as good as compared to Japanese song. That's quite a shame for those who could not understand the Japanese language.

In fact, my exposure to Vocaloid was the sole reason for me to learn the Japanese language in the first place. Sadly, my favourite smart.fm website will no longer be serving me to improve my mastery on that language, at least not without a fee.

I admire the fact that everyone can create music with Vocaloid! To see so many artists emerge on Youtube with the rise of Vocaloid just gives me the idea that everything you dream off can be achieve, with the help of technology of course!

So here I present you, Hatsune Miku!!