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Kasane Teto
Kasane Teto (, ) is a virtual singer software (voicebank) created on the Japanese textboard 2channel for April Fools' Day 2008. Although the software was initially created as a hoax and did not exist, it later was actually produced and made compatible with singing voice synthesis software UTAU, allowing it to sing. Teto has been introduced as a "diva born from a hoax". Kasane Teto was also released as a voice model in 2021 for TALQu, a deep learning-based free speech software, in 2023 for , a commercial singing voice synthesis software, and in 2025 for , a text-to-speech software. Character Kasane Teto is officially stated to be 15 years old. However, her developers note that fans have differing interpretations of her actual age and are free to interpret it differently if they prefer to, mentioning that some fans believe Teto ages differently from humans due to her being a chimera and is therefore a teenager when her age is converted to human years, while other fans do co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AH-Software
AH-Software is the software brand of AHS Co., Ltd. (original full name: Artist House Solutions Co., Ltd.), an importer of digital audio workstations and encoders in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known as the developer of Voiceroid and a number of Vocaloid voicebanks. Products and services Vocaloid Products AHS released their first Vocaloids on December 4, 2009, named SF-A2 Miki, Kaai Yuki, and Hiyama Kiyoteru. Kaai Yuki became the first Vocaloid to use a child's voice. AHS also published a ''Hello Kitty''-based Vocaloid, Nekomura Iroha, based on the Kittyler featured in the game ''Hello Kitty to Issho! Block Crash 123!!'' in cooperation with Sanrio. AHS are also heading the first project led by producers working with the software. Vocaloid 2 Products Vocaloid 3 Products Vocaloid 4 Products Vocaloid 5 Products Speech Synthesis * Voiceroid **Tsukuyomi Shouta; based on a seven-year-old male. **Tsukuyomi Ai; based on a five-year-old female. **Yoshida-Kun; based on the chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penske Media Corporation
Penske Media Corporation (PMC ) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City. It publishes more than 20 digital and print brands, including '' Variety'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Women's Wear Daily'', ''Deadline Hollywood'', ''Billboard'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', '' Boy Genius Report'', '' Robb Report'', '' Artforum'', ''ARTNews'', and others. PMC's Chairman and CEO since founding is Jay Penske. In addition to media publications, Penske Media Corporation owns the Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival and is a 50 percent stakeholder in South by Southwest. It is also the owner of Dick Clark Productions which includes the award shows Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards, Streamy Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards. History 2003–2011: Founding and early years of Penske Media Penske Media Corporation was founded by Jay Penske in 2003. It began as an affinity marketin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesmerizer (song)
is a 2024 song by Japanese people, Japanese music producer 32ki (pronounced "Satsuki") featuring vocals by Vocaloid virtual singer Hatsune Miku and virtual singer Kasane Teto. The song's accompanying animated music video, created by Japanese animator "channel", reached 10 million views on YouTube within two weeks of its release, unprecedented for Vocaloid songs. On November 17, 2024, the song reached 100 million views on YouTube, becoming the fastest Vocaloid song in history to reach 100 million views (6 months and 21 days). Background and release The music video for "Mesmerizer" was released on April 27, 2024, and the song was released for Streaming media, streaming on May 17. The song was included on 32ki's first album, ''Circus's Detail'', which was released during 2024. The song's Stem (audio), stems have been made available to the public as part of the "Remix Project" at The Vocaloid Collection (known as VocaColle for short), run by Dwango (company), Dwango. Composition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan
''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine '' Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway), holding an exclusive licence from ''Billboard''s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan,"Hanshin Contents Link, the operator of Billboard Japan": and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country. In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from ''Billboard'', launched the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 music chart. As of 2025, the list of charts compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' also included an albums chart named ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, physical-sales-only-based charts Top Singles Sales and Top Albums Sales, download-only-based charts Download Songs and Download Albums, an animation music chart named Hot Animation, and a chart for foreign songs named Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niconico Vocaloid Songs Top 20
''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine ''Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway), holding an exclusive licence from ''Billboard''s parent company to the Billboard brand name in Japan,"Hanshin Contents Link, the operator of Billboard Japan": and manages, among others, the website www.billboard-japan.com and several "Billboard Live"-branded music clubs located in the country. In February 2008, Hanshin Contents Link, under licence from ''Billboard'', launched the ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 music chart. As of 2025, the list of charts compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' also included an albums chart named ''Billboard Japan'' Hot Albums, physical-sales-only-based charts Top Singles Sales and Top Albums Sales, download-only-based charts Download Songs and Download Albums, an animation music chart named Hot Animation, and a chart for foreign songs named Hot Overs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Japan Hot 100
The ''Billboard Japan'' Hot 100 is a record chart in Japan for songs. It has been compiled by ''Billboard Japan'' and Hanshin Contents Link since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at Billboard-japan.com ( JST) and every Thursday at Billboard.com ( UTC). The first number-one song on the chart was " Stay Gold" by Hikaru Utada on the issue dated January 16, 2008. The first number-one song on the chart by a non-Japanese artist was " Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis in the issue dated April 30, 2008. The current number-one on the chart as of the issue dated June 11, 2025, is "Boyz" by SixTones. Methodology From the chart's inception in 2008, to December 2010, the chart combined CD single sales data from SoundScan Japan, tracking sales at physical stores across Japan, and radio airplay figures from Japan's then 32 AM and FM radio stations sourced from the Japanese company Plantech. In December 2010, the chart expanded to include sales from online stores, as well as sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Awards Japan
The Music Awards Japan (abbreviated as MAJ), is a music awards show by the Japanese music industry to honour musical talents from Asia, Japan and the Western regions. The awards are organized by the Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA) in collaboration with the Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The inaugural award show was held on May 21 and 22, 2025, at the Rohm Theater, Kyoto. History On October 22, 2024, the Music Awards Japan were officially announced. The awards were introduced to promote Japanese and Asian music on a global stage. The five major music organizations of the Japanese music industry, the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), the Japan Association of Music Enterprises, the Federation of Music Producers Japan, the Music Publishers Association of Japan, and the All Japan Concert & Live Entertainment Promoter's Conference, founded the Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niconico
, known before 2012 as , is a Japanese video sharing service based in Tokyo, Japan. "Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese sound symbolism, Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of 2021, Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan, according to Alexa Internet. The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2007, and an Honorary Mention of the Digital Communities category at Prix Ars Electronica 2008. Between June 8, 2024 and August 5, 2024, its servers were 2024 cyberattack on Kadokawa and Niconico, affected by a cyberattack and the website was partially active. History The first version of Niconico used YouTube as a video source. When the site grew, YouTube's server infrastructure strained due to increased traffic and bandwidth, leading YouTube to make a decision to block access from Niconico. As a result, Niconico ceased operations for two weeks. The site relaunched with an on-premises video server. On May 7, 2007, Niconico announced a mobile phone version of the webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concatenative Synthesis
Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesising sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound (called ''units''). The duration of the units is not strictly defined and may vary according to the implementation, roughly in the range of 10 milliseconds up to 1 second. It is used in speech synthesis and music sound synthesis to generate user-specified sequences of sound from a database (often called a corpus) built from recordings of other sequences. In contrast to granular synthesis, concatenative synthesis is driven by an analysis of the source sound, in order to identify the units that best match the specified criterion. In speech In music Concatenative synthesis for music started to develop in the 2000s in particular through the work of Schwarz and Pachet (so-called musaicing). The basic techniques are similar to those for speech, although with differences due to the differing nature of speech and music: for example, the segmentation is not into phonetic un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapporo Snow Festival
The is a festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan, over seven days in February. Odori Park, Susukino, and Tsudome are the main sites of the festival. In 2007 (57th festival), about two million people visited Sapporo to see the hundreds of snow statues and ice sculptures at the Odori Park and Susukino sites, in central Sapporo, and at the Satoland site.The outline of the Sapporo Snow Festival An International Snow Sculpture Contest has been held at the Odori Park site since 1974, and 14 teams from various regions of the world participated in 2008. The subject of the statues varies and often features an event, famous building or person from the previous year. For example, in 2004, there were statues of Hideki M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project DIVA F
is a 2012 rhythm game created by Sega and Crypton Future Media for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. It was released on the PlayStation Vita in Japan on August 30, 2012 as the fifth entry in the '' Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA'' series. The game debuted at Sony's E3 2012 booth in June 2012 under the name of ''Hatsune Miku'' so as to gauge interest for the game. Like previous games in the series, the game primarily makes use of Vocaloids, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these Vocaloids, most notably the virtual-diva Hatsune Miku. The PS Vita version garnered generally favorable reviews, while the PS3 version's reviews were more mixed. A sequel to the game, titled Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd, was released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on March 27, 2014 in Japan, November 18, 2014 in North America, and November 21, 2014 in Europe. PlayStation 3 Version A PlayStation 3 version of the game, titled (the only difference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
