{"id":10045,"date":"2010-09-02T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:04:38","slug":"gachapin-now-has-his-voice-vocaloid-and-iphone-twitter-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gachapin-now-has-his-voice-vocaloid-and-iphone-twitter-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Gachapin Now Has His Voice Vocaloid And iPhone Twitter Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japan&#8217;s most popular Twitter user <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gachapinblog\">Gachapin<\/a>, who took the most followed user title recently back from ex-prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hatoyamayukio\">Yukio Hatoyama<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/prime-minister-hatoyama-overtakes-japanese-twitter-top-position-from-gachapin\/\">once passed him<\/a>, is expanding his brand on two different geeks-loving products, Vocaloid and iPhone.<br \/>\nGachapin is a 5-year-old dinosaur kid from a popular children TV program Hirake Ponkikki, who is also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/gachapin.fujitvkidsclub.jp\/\">a blogger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gachapinblog\">a Twitter user<\/a>(@GachapinBlog).<\/p>\n<h3>Gachapoid &#8211; Gachapin on Vocaloid<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachapoid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachapoid-400x287.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gachapoid\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10046\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast week, Osaka-based company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.co.jp\/\">Internet Co, Ltd.<\/a> (great name!) announced that they adds a new product on their human-voice-synthesizer series based on Yamaha&#8217;s Vocaloid 2 technology with Gachapin&#8217;s voice, named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.co.jp\/products\/vocal\/gachapoid\/\">Gachapoid<\/a>. The package price is 15,750 yen (US$187).<br \/>\n# Popular virtual diva Hatsune Miku <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/computer-synthesized-vocal-album-tops-the-japanese-chart-first-in-history\/\">who once beat Lady Gaga in Japan by CD sales<\/a>, who was emerged from <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/nico-nico-douga\/\">Nico Nico Douga<\/a> culture is another variation from another company on the same Vocaloid.<br \/>\nOne Gachapoid&#8217;s sample song is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.co.jp\/products\/vocal\/gachapoid\/demo\/index.html\">available here<\/a> for Windows Media.<\/p>\n<h3>GachaTwi &#8211; Gachapin on iPhone for Twitter User<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachatwi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachatwi-400x208.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gachatwi\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10047\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=RGWPXSqy5PM&#038;offerid=94348&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=2192&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fjp%252Fapp%252Fid389120999%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30\" target=\"itunes_store\" rel=\"noopener\">GachaTwi<\/a> is a iPhone\/iPod Touch Twitter Client themed with Gachapin by <a href=\"http:\/\/genesix.jp\/\">Genesix<\/a> and Fuji Television Kids Entertainment, Inc.<br \/>\nBesides the regular Twitter client feature, the app has a special page to see Gachapin&#8217;s Tweets only, which can be seen by one of four menu button.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachatwi-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachatwi-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gachatwi-screenshot\" width=\"161\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10048\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGachaTwi is 350 yen but 115 yen ($1.36) until September 12th.<br \/>\nGachapin himself <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GachapinBlog\/status\/22765377433\">tweeted that he can not use GachaTwi because iPhone&#8217;s touch panel does not detect his hands<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GachapinBlog\/status\/22765377433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gachapins-tweet-unable-to-use-iphone-400x236.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gachapins-tweet-unable-to-use-iphone\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10055\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/av.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100827_389781.html\">AV Watch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/09\/01\/042\/\">MyCom Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p>Gachapin Vocaloid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssw.co.jp\/press\/index_image\/gachapoid\/Gachpoid_release_20100827.pdf\">news release<\/a> [J, pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japan&#8217;s most popular Twitter user Gachapin, who took the most followed user title recently back from ex-prime minister Yukio Hatoyama who once passed him, is expanding his brand on two different geeks-loving products, Vocaloid and iPhone. Gachapin is a 5-year-old dinosaur kid from a popular children TV program Hirake Ponkikki, who is also known&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gachapin-now-has-his-voice-vocaloid-and-iphone-twitter-client\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gachapin Now Has His Voice Vocaloid And iPhone Twitter Client<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1271,1300,1338,1713,1732,2159,3858,4000],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-fuji-tv","tag-gachapin","tag-genesix","tag-internet-co","tag-iphone","tag-ltd","tag-twitter-client","tag-vocaloid","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}