Japan's Hologram Rockstar

[Monster]

There's apparently been an important trend in Japan in the past years that we've been missing out on: Vocaloids.

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Another video:

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In the following videos (posted by a Slashdot user here) created by users of the Vocaloid software, the synthesized voice doesn't always sound polished, but they're awesome nonetheless:

 

[Monster]

Japanese documentary:

p.s.: You can click the CC button in the arrow menu (if not already enabled) while the video is playing to enable English closed captioning.

 

[Brandon]

that's pretty sweet man

 

[Monster]

that's pretty sweet man

Yeah, it allows people who can't or don't want to sing to make music with vocals. That's pretty awesome!

I'm not sure, but it could be this speech synthesis method. It's good for creating singing voices, not so much for speaking. lol

 

[Monster]

Another video list; some are using different voice profiles (Luka,Rin,etc.):

 

[Umair]

I don't like their cartoons their English just freaks me out I a

 

[Shin Taro]

It is not a 3D hologram, but also projected on a translucent screen.
What would be that, but it has been delivered to a large number of erroneous information around the world.
You can read more infometion from this site:
http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

and I also recommend this article:
http://deliciouscakeproject.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/hatsune-miku-and-the-magic-of-make-believe/
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10427900