1. VOCALOID SINGING COMPUTERS MADE IN JAPAN PowerPoint Presentation made by Annie Thongvathsa ボーカロイド

2. WHAT IS VOCALOID? – YAMAHA'S VISION 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. In addition, songs that used Miku Hatsune and videos that were uploaded on Nico Video became extremely popular, and the UGC (self-produced content) grew at a fast pace. From there, CDs with Vocaloid songs entered the top-sellers lists, became popular songs for people to sing at Karaoke, and the software and music created from it have become a music culture in itself. Vocaloid technology has improved dramatically and the expressions and audio quality of Vocaloids have improved to the point where it's hard to tell the difference between them and living human beings. Not only does it allow for users to easily create songs and cover songs for their enjoyment, but it is progressing to allow users to make full-scale musical pieces as well. Furthermore, there are little restrictions on hardware as long as they are connected to the internet, so there are many possibilities for future uses including for mobile phones and portable game machines. http://www.vocaloid.com/en/about/

3. ボーカロイド / VOCALOID Developers: YAMAHA Corporation, Bplats Initial Release: January 15, 2004 Development Status: Active Stable Release: Vocaloid 4 Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/Vista /7/8 Apple iOS Available in: Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Catalan Type: Musical Synthesizer Application a singing voice synthesizer specially recorded vocals of voice actors/singers software "Vocaloid" can change stress, pronunciations, dynamics and tone of voice + effects sings by typing in lyrics and melody sold as "a singer in a box" limits users' own skills for professional musicians and the light-skilled en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid (From left to right:) Kagamine Rin Hatsune Miku Kagamine Len

4. VOCALOID INFORMATION PROJECT DIVA series of rhythm games developers – Sega, Crypton Future Media compatiable with: PlayStation Portable, PlayStation3, Nintendo3DS, iOS, Sega RingEdge, PlayStation Vita MMD – MikuMikuDance animation program lets users create/animate 3D animation movies creator – Yu Higuchi 3D models – motion, altered, facial expressions effects, accessories, stages, backgrounds, sound, music SOFTWARE VERSIONS Vocaloid4 Vocaloid3 Vocaloid2 Vocaloid iVocaloid Vocaloid Neo VocaloWitter Unreleased eVocaloid CONCERTS Dilad Screen rear-screen projection onto semi transparent diffusive polymer surface 2-5 projectors behind screen real players on stage playing music En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku:_Project_DIVA En.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikuMikuDance Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vocaloid_products Project Diva Gameplay MikuMikuDance Models

5. JAPAN'S BIGGEST POP STAR RIGHT NOW IS A HOLOGRAM BY GEOFFREY CAIN / NBC NEWS / APRIL 10, 2014 4:39 AM ET SEOUL, South Korea — Even by the standards of pop stars, Hatsune Miku is eccentric and protean, her mystique elusive. Her eyes are too round and blue to be real. She can be buxom or boyish, and almost painfully sultry — all in a droid-ish, understated way. She dons a school uniform, with thigh-high power boots and a flared ultra-micro miniskirt. Her pig-tailed turquoise hair is so long that she risks tripping over it as she dances lithely in front of her adoring, sell-out crowds. In a saccharine soprano — reminiscent of a castrated Mouseketeer — her lyrics soar over the roars and ovations of glowstick-wielding teenage audiences. Her fans wouldn’t have it any other way. Hatsune Miku is big. Really big. Right now, she's Japan’s favorite pop star, according to Japan Today. She has more than 100,000 original (crowdsourced) songs, 1.8 million Facebook followers, and has even been the face for Google, Toyota, and Louis Vuitton, the paper reports. The singer— a 16-year-old Virgo, measuring 5 foot 2 inches and weighing a paltry 93 pounds — looks as though she came straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon. And yet she never fails to elude the paparazzi. There’s a good reason for that. She’s not human. Rather, “she” consists of a digitally synthesized voice connected to a hologram, an ever- evolving, crowd-sourced humanoid that performs all over Japan and, more recently, at sold-out concerts around the world. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japans-biggest-pop-star-right-now-hologram-n76506

6. VOCALOID SONGS POPULAR SONGS Senbonzakura World is Mine Matryoshka Rolling Girl Echo Lost One To Goukoku Tokyo Teddy Bear Romeo to Cinderella Magnet PERSONAL FAVORITES mErcy aiSeNMa Paradichlorobenzene eTeRNiTY Hurting For A Very Hurtful Pain Echo Shatter Lie GoodBye Biohazard I (Love) iNSaNiTY Circus Monster Last of Me Our Belief Crystalline Wildfire iNFeCTioN ______________________________________ Echo by Gumi English Crystalline by Gumi English http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Hall_of_Legend

7. POPULAR VOCALOID SONGS Hatsune Miku - World Is Mine ConcertGumi English – ECHO (May not be appropriate for younger audiences) Gumi English – Crystalline (May not be appropriate for younger audiences)

8. MY PERSONAL FAVORITE VOCALOID SONGS Miki - Our Belief Sonika (English) – Biohazard (May be too alarming for younger audiences) Hatsune Miku – GoodBye (May not be appropriate for emotionally challenged audiences)

9. CONCERTS Butterfly on your Right Shoulder – Kagamine Rin and Len Senbonzakura – Hatsune Miku

10. FAKES/JOKES April, 2008: Kasane Teto was an April Fool’s Day joke on April 1, 2008 made out by the perpetrators to be a new Crypton Future Media VOCALOID. The legacy of this prank continued on for years after its original run and even today some less- informed fans believe she is a VOCALOID. Some time after the joke, an UTAU voicebank for her was created. April, 2012: On April 1, 2012, VocaTone announced that “James” would be made into a VOCALOID known as Bird-loid, however, this was an April Fools day joke. April, 2012: Another April Fools joke was “Animaloid” which turned out to be also a hint about the upcoming MAYU VOCALOID. April, 2015: Itoh Hiroyuki was a VOCALOID4 male vocal from Crypton Future Media, Inc.. His voicebank was claimed to use the E.V.E.C. system, making him a V4X and he was part of the “CEO Vocal Series” of Crypton. When his cart button is clicked, the button moves off screen and is replaced with a small advertisement to purchase Megurine Luka V4X instead. http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Status Kasane Teto Megurine Luka V4X

11. VOCALOID4 OPERATION GUIDE

12. VOCALOID CHARACTERS LEON AND LOLA The first Vocaloids ever made Date made: March 3, 2004 Leon (male) character item: Tulip Lola (female) character item: Frying pan _____________________________________________ Please note that these are only some of the known Vocaloid characters. There are actually many Vocaloids, and some of them can be seen in animation below. But even so, it only shows still some of Vocaloids. In this list, you will see some important and most popular Vocaloids seen around the world.

13. VOCALOID CHARACTERS KAITO (male) Date made: February 17, 2006 Voice Base: Fuga Naoto Character item: Ice cream Gumi (female) Date made: June 25, 2009 Voice Base: Nakajime Megumi Character item: Carrot Height: 162 cm. Age: 20 years old all-about-vocaloid.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-vocaloid-characters.html

14. VOCALOID CHARACTERS Voice Base: Fujita Saki Character Item: Spring Onion (Leek) Meaning of name: First sound future Kagamine Rin and Len Date made: December 27, 2007 Voice Base: Shimoda Asami Rin (female, older) character item: road roller and mikan (Japanese orange) Len (male, younger) character item: road roller and banana Rin – height: 152 cm. Len – height: 156 cm. Age: 14 years old Meaning of name: mirror sound right left (Hatsu) (Ne) (Miku) (Kagami) (Ne) (Rin) (Len) Hatsune Miku Date made: August 31, 2007 Age: 16 years old

15. FACTS VOCALOID was originally only available in English VOCALOID was not intended to be a full commercial project Hatsune Miku's Ievan Polkka will be on Just Dance 2016 Hatsune Miku has been on the Late Night Show with David Letterman Kagamine Rin and Len, female and male twins, have the same voice actor, Shidoma Asami, who is a female Hatsune Miku on the Late Show with David Letterman