Hatsune Miku
, sometimes referred to as Miku Hatsune, is the name of a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official moe anthropomorph, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 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 modeled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol and has performed at concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear cast projection on a specially coated glass screen).
Vocaloid 3
Based on the voice of Satomi Sato she is a Japanese vocal released on June 5, 2014. She was designed to promote the Tōhoku region after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster. Tōhoku region based companies can use her for advertisements and dōjin works. She was originally released as a Voiceroid product, her Vocaloid vocal was developed following a successful crowd funding campaign was held to raise ¥5,000,000 by July 20, 2013.