Welcome back to VOCALOID, Miku. It's like you never left.

Context?

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Context?

@luntoer can you provide some for adding this to the two pools?

zaregoto said:

@luntoer can you provide some for adding this to the two pools?

I only added this to Current Events a couple years ago. The context is in the translations. At the time, YAMAHA was holding an audition for voice providers for a new voicebank: https://twitter.com/Yamaha_JP_PR/status/1493406999219822594. The results of that audition was ultimately Fuiro.

@CharleyDodger added this to Hilarious in Hindsight just today because in 2019, Crypton Future Media left the VOCALOID engine to develop their own in-house engine, Piapro Studio. It was big news because it meant that from that point forward, Hatsune Miku was technically no longer a VOCALOID (see Hatsune Miku (NT)). But apparently that project wasn't too successful because just yesterday, August 1st, 2024, they announced that Miku would be returning to the VOCALOID engine with her upcoming new V6 AI voicebank: https://sonicwire.com/news/blog/2024/08/superpack