19 September 2007

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!

Blog touch up.

I'll be doing a few touch ups to the Blog in the following days but I foresee no disruptions to the regular updates. For today, I've designed OTW's own favicon.

If you have a blog or homepage, you can make your own favicon here! :D send me a link to yours!

I'm not sure if it's viewable from IE but get yourself a Firefox if you still haven't done so.