Hatsune miku

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク? )  is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology. The name of the character comes from a fusion of the Japanese for first (初hatsu? ) , sound (音ne? ) <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> and future (Miku <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">(ミク<sup style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets <span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color:rgb(0,0,238);font-size:9px;font-weight:bold;line-height:normal;padding-right:0.1em;padding-left:0.1em;">? ] ) <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> sounds like a nanori<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> reading of future, 未来, normally read as "mirai" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="line-height:1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">[1] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">), referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series". She was the second Vocaloid to be sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, Saki Fujita<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as a projection.