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Hatsune Miku is an official mascot character for Yamaha's singing synthesizer application software VOCALOID2, developed and distributed by Crypton Future Media and released August 31st 2007 under the name "Character Vocal Series 01 Hatsune Miku".

Her design was created by illustrator KEI and her voice provided by the voice actress Fujita Saki.

There have since been numerous installments such as additional voice banks dubbed 'Append' with a new package illustration provided by Masaki Asai and released April 30th 2010 , as well as an upgrade to the VOCALOID3 engine on September 26th 2013, which includes her long awaited English vocal release.
Once again new package illustrations were created, this time done by iXima for the "V3" version and Zain for the english version.

She was the first release for Crypton's VOCALOID Character Vocal Series, the third Japanese VOCALOID, and the seventh VOCALOID to have been created overall. She is considered the most popular and well known VOCALOID and the first to become a pop idol.