Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

The speed up drawing is the mascot Hatsune Miku for the voice synthesizing software Vocaloid 2.

The background music you're hearing is created using Vocaloid 2 and the singing is generated by inputting the lyrics. Intonation, length and pitch can be controlled. If you've heard the Card Captor Sakura's theme song before, you'll notice that Vocaloid generated singing is lacking the human touch. Here.. I'll include the original:


(>_<).,oO() At times like this, I wish I was born in Japan.


The above video shows the software at work. Amazing!