Codename Cute

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Welcome to one of Japan's newer memes. Miku Hatsune (初音ミク, Hatsune Miku) is the first character in the Vocaloid Character Voice Series released on August 31, 2007. Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody. In other words, the following singer is a computer program who sings according to melodies created by users.

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I watched the video below about 10 times in a row as of this post; it's dangerous!

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