Miku Hatsune

Intro Hatsune Miku was one of the first character personas developed by Crypton Future Media for their Vocaloid software. She debuted in 2007. Vocaloid is an advanced voice synthesizer software. Musicians can input melodies and lyrics and the program, like a virtual signer, will perform it to produce new songs. Hatsune Miku is one the digital voices musicians can use, and to promote her, Crypton Future Media gave Hatsune Miku a profile and personality. Her name is from the Japanese characters for first, sound, and future, so her name means “first sound from the future.” According to her backstory, Hatsune Miku comes from a not-so-distant future where music was lost. She emerged as a 16-year-old singing android who reintroduced the skills to the world. Miku is perhaps the most well-known. has hit the top of Japanese album charts.