Hatsune Miku Statue

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク^?), sometimes referred to as Miku Hatsune, is a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media. Hatsune Miku is portrayed as a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise pigtails. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 3 singing synthesizing technologies. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a singing synthesizer VSTi Plugin. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine, and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as an animated projection.^[1]

The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初 hatsu), sound (音 ne) and future (ミク miku^{[n 1]}), thus meaning "the first sound from the future.", referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series".