>> ^westy:

Its a shame we dont have Humanoid robots to perform this sort of stuff yet maby another 10-20 years we will.
I'm suprized we don't have stuff close to this in western culture as in the end its all just motivated out of capitalism and its a fairly eficent reliable low cost and convenant way of making money out of music I guess gorilaz is the only thing like this in uk


There was a video floating around where they synched a humanoid robots mouth to a hatsune song, but she looked nothing like hatsune so it kinda ruined it. Also it really lacked the mouth movements needed to be a convincing singer robot.

As for why we havn't seen much of this over here, its kinda depressing but the only software doing this is yamahas Vocaloid 2 (and 1, but no one uses it now) package. Also the package and singers are predominantly japanese, with only one of them sounding any good in english. Apparently we will see a hatsune english voice pack in the near future. Also vocaloid 3 is in the works and I imagine at that point is when we may see some serious mainstream use of vocaloids.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Sounds very human to me.


I think it's a human, too, but not because of the singing. The singing sounds very much like Vocaloid, but there's one thing this song has that Hatsune Miku doesn't, and that's breathing between words.

interesting cover.
is that a human singing or a vocaloid?

Miku Hatsune AKA a vocaloid. She is basically a text-to music computer program very popular in japan. They have many different versions each of which carries a different popstar character which they create for different voices.

The really cool part is almost all the songs she performs are created by her fans who post the songs on niko niko douga (smile smile video).

It is definitely a *meme but I cant add this tag myself http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miku-hatsune-vocaloid You can also check out one of these in one of the vids I posted here: http://videosift.com/video/Text-to-speech-Autotune-Vocaloid

I was able to find the basis of this video from reddit. Its a fan made 3d animation (sorry, no direct japanese link this time) of several meme's. The 2 guys are from a popular (?) gay wrestling movie, many 4channers have probably seen it as a flash animation played/synched to one of Kirby's background soundtracks. The steam roller is from jojo's adventure, and the girl (!) driving it is the vocaloid character Kagamine Rin. The scene is a remake of one of the over-the-top drifting scenes from the anime Initial D.

>> ^RedSky:
For the uninitiated, the voice is actually synthesised:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid


Oh thank god. In retrospect, I reneg my downvote. It just surprised me and my finger got all "fight-or-flight" on me.

For the uninitiated, the voice is actually synthesised:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid

Actually, I wonder...is this sung by a real person, or is the vocal produced by a program like Vocaloid?

upvote for the song. is that made with vocaloid maybe?