The term «vocaloid» comes from a voice synthesizer program
called Vocaloid that allows for synthesizing music by typing the lyrics and melody.
Not exact matches
Once you've installed a
Vocaloid font on your PC, you define a melody, either by importing a kind of digital sheet music
called MIDI or by manually entering the notes on a scale.
The resulting collection of audio snippets creates what the
Vocaloid developers
call fonts.
Vocaloids, as they're
called are created using software developed by Yamaha, and the most successful creator has been Crypton Future Media.