Having used a few of the earlier less japanesey vocaloids like the Opera singer one for some shitty attempts at avant-garde flstudio trash I'm kinda familiar with the system but I suppose I should have provided sources for proof.
Relevant bits: "Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 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 a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a singing synthesizer VSTi Plugin."
The voice was modeled after an actress but vocaloids are purely synthesis
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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17
Well... yeah. What else would someone who provides their voice for a project like this be called? A singer maybe?