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Could someone explain the cliffnotes on "vtubers", and the hatsune blue haired person??/mascot??/brand??, and whether they are related? (hexbear.net)

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I see people talking about what as far as I can tell are cartoons performing shows and I'm quite lost. Looking stuff up there's all this jargon that makes it impenetrable. From what I can tell there are like digital puppets that various people perform under? But sometimes the performers "graduate"? (taken behind the shed and shot?) and then sometimes the puppet is gone but then this blue haired thing persists? are they totally different things?

How do you see a performance by a digital puppet? is it all just on screen?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hatsune Miku is a completely different thing. Hatsune Miku is a character/voice for a synthetic instrument called Vocaloid which is developed and owned by Yamaha. It's a pretty cool piece of software where you input lyrics and a midi pattern, then the characters "sing". Basically people became fans of the marketing design for the Hatsune Miku character specifically and it blew up from there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So like autotune + speech synth?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hatsune Miku's tech was a big deal when it released because it was the first vocal synth that needed zero human input. Every other vocal synth at the time needed human speech samples to work.

That was like 20 years ago, though. Now it's all memes and holographic concerts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Miku's voice provider is Saki Fujita

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Really? Then I fell for the marketing, too.