A number of Vocaloid songs have also managed to evolve into their own multimedia franchises, with examples including Black★Rock Shooter, Kagerou Project, Confession Executive Committee, and Mikagura School Suite. Vocaloid music, the majority being independently produced and released on the internet, have found a respectable amount of internet but also mainstream success in Japan, with some producers' Vocaloid music albums climbing reasonably high in the Japanese music charts.

note And despite being purely a text-to-speech program with no musical functions, some artists have managed to successfully create songs using VOICEROID. Vocaloid also has a speech-synthesizing-only sister program called VOICEROID, and features both voice banks ported from Vocaloid and its own original voice banks. There are currently five generations of the Vocaloid software with over 70 vocaloids across the generations. Vocaloids are predominantly Japanese-speaking, but there are also many English, Chinese, and Korean vocaloids. These Vocaloid characters were incorporated into Vocaloid-using music videos, have their characterizations expanded in fan works, or even rendered into 3D and projected on stages for live concert 'performances'. It is these singer Digital Avatars that made Vocaloid more than just a software the Vocaloid characters have gathered massive followings in Japan note The earliest Vocaloids with no official character design are significantly less popular than the ones with character designs, with flagship Vocaloid Hatsune Miku becoming an outright Virtual Celebrity.

But Vocaloid is far more than just that what really made Vocaloid special was its voice banks, nicknamed Vocaloids, who are characterized as their own individual singers with their own, usually anime-styled, official character designs. If that was all that Vocaloid was, then it would have been a perfectly functional software useful in music creation with little else to say about it. To use a Vocaloid, one simply has to load a voice bank (sold separately from the main software and produced by different companies), type in the lyrics of the song of their choosing, and tune the melody for said song, producing a fully synthesized singing voice (though a great deal of fine-tuning is usually necessary to have the result sound natural). Functionally, Vocaloid works like a combination of Synthetic Voice Actor and Auto-Tune. Vocaloid (portmanteau of 'vocal' and 'android' stylized as VOCALOID) is a singing voice synthesizing software created by university researcher Kenmochi Hideki and the Yamaha Corporation.

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