One of Hatsune Miku’s appeals is that she is a highly animated visual idol without social-cultural traits and any controversial social-political practice. For Haraway, the cyborg blurs the boundaries of gender and then causes transgressed boundaries and dangerous possibilities for the world-wide dominated ideologies. As Haraway indicates in her manifesto of a cyborg, self-identity is fractured in the historical experience which is full of contradictories and conflicts of notions. “Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism” (Haraway 1991, 155). Her body is completely void, thus enables it to be poured with millions of different voices, and because of the collective love from her users, those voice unites as one identity.įirst of all, she reaches her users/fans as a teenager idol that has been eliminated cultural traits in a large extent. Thus, the actual author hides her social-cultural identity in reality and devotes herself to the Vocaloid family with a united identity as Hatsune Miku.Īffected by the huge popularity of Miku around the world and the passion of her fans in the concert, it is hard to notice that she is actually a hologram animation on the screen in front of a black background. Some of the shared works win popularity among fan’s community and would be officially recognized as part of Miku’s repertoire, as her art creation. Then, they can upload their works to a video-sharing site such as Nico Nico Douga, YouTube and Vimeo. They follow the software processes to edit musical notes, and words and output the song in selected voice from the library. Using the Vocaloid synthesizer, users can create their own music. Hatsune Miku’s original human voice provider is Fujita Saki, a popular Japanese voice actress. The resource of the voice normally from a voice actor or actress. The singer library is able to capture elements of human voice such as multiple dimensions of pitch, tempo, loudness, attack and vibrato. In the 1970s and 1980s, voice synthesis is operated on integrated circuit chips in the 1990s, when the price of computer memory device plummet, software becomes the most effective method to synthesize voice.Īs for Hatsune Miku Vocaloid, it contains a database of sampled sounds, an expression module that analyzes the melody, and a synthesis module that runs algorithms to pick up the database samples and expression models. Soon, Vocaloid software contained more than one voice actor and has developed a voice library. Bell Laboratories’ goal is to make the voice apparatus as a skilled “girl operator” to create recognizable speech with a slight electrical accent. First of all, Vocaloid begins as an electronic voice synthesis apparatus which first appears in the 1930s patented by Homer Dudley at Bell Laboratories.
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