VOCALOID - Alternate Song Creation

A cover of song with a tie-up of Gundam Anime

Perhaps this is familiar to some students as the song appeared in television sometime before. But do you notice there is some difference?
The song is in fact synthesized by a music software called "VOCALOID2 - Hatsune Miku". The "singer" did not sing it directly.
The voice is originally recorded by a Japanese voice actor. And a software user can arrange a song as the editor like using her lovely voice.

I think many of us did not think of this technology "Speech Synthesis Engine", or regarded it as a joke only. "How possible?" However it eventually comes true.

An animation character is assigned to have the voice so as to be popular in Japan Anime market. It attracts some Anime fans to show their creativity concerning avocational music production. The software producer might have noticed that Anime fans are creative (Why?) comparing with "traditional" pop-music listeners. Hence the producer chose this direction to go.

One of the characters is Hatsune Miku. She is now famous and many official and unofficial products of her are released. A PSP game of Hatsune Miku, with a special version of PSP, will be blooming in the Anime world.