Hatsune Miku

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Hatsune Miku (初音ミク^?) is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. It usesYamaha 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^?) and future (Miku (ミク^?) sounds like a nanori reading of future, 未来, normally read as "mirai"^[1]), 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 and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as a projection.