Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音ミク), officially code-named CV01,[2][3] is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official anthropomorphic mascot character, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at live virtual concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear-cast projection on a specially coated glass screen).[4]

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Hatsune Miku

Developer(s)	Crypton Future Media
Initial release	August 31, 2007
Stable release	Hatsune Miku NT (New Type) / November 27, 2020
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, macOS
Platform	PC
Available in	Japanese English Chinese
Type	Vocal Synthesizer Application
License	Proprietary (Vocaloid voice/software) Creative Commons BY-NC (character design)[1]
Website	ec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us

Miku uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a standalone singing synthesizer editor. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the 2 engine. The voice is modeled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.

The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初, hatsu), sound (音, ne), and future (ミク, miku),[lower-alpha 1] thus meaning "the first sound of the future",[2] which, along with her code name, refers to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), preceding Kagamine Rin/Len (code-named CV02) and Megurine Luka (code-named CV03). The number 01 can also be seen on her left shoulder in official artwork.