Kasane Teto is a virtual singer, using a piece of software called Utau.
Briefly, the way it works is a human voice is recorded making every possible phoneme, then each phoneme is keyed separately in the program, so an end user can put together strings of phonemes to form words and phrases, and by adjusting their pitch and timbre and tempo and so on can make them into songs.
So it started with a human voice, but it’s all computer generated.
Not quite either one, or maybe a bit of both.
Kasane Teto is a virtual singer, using a piece of software called Utau.
Briefly, the way it works is a human voice is recorded making every possible phoneme, then each phoneme is keyed separately in the program, so an end user can put together strings of phonemes to form words and phrases, and by adjusting their pitch and timbre and tempo and so on can make them into songs.
So it started with a human voice, but it’s all computer generated.