AH-Software is the software brand

Brand

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 of AHS Co., Ltd., an importer of digital audio workstation

Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...

s and encoders in Tokyo, Japan. It is also known as the developer of Voiceroid

Voiceroid

Voiceroid is a speech synthesizer application developed by AH Software and is designed for speech. It is only available in the Japanese language. Its name comes from the singing software Vocaloid, for which Ah Software also develops voicebanks...

 and a number of Vocaloid

Vocaloid

is a singing synthesizer application, with its signal processing part developed through a joint research project between the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Japan's Yamaha Corporation, who backed the development financially—and later developed the software into the commercial product...

 voicebanks.

Music composition

AHS released their first Vocaloids on December 4, 2009, named SF-A2 Miki, Kaai Yuki, and Hiyama Kiyoteru. Kaai Yuki became the first Vocaloid to use a child's voice. AHS also published a Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty

is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States...

-based Vocaloid, "Nekomura Iroha", based on the Kittyler featured in the game Hello Kitty to Issho! Block Crash 123!! in cooperation with Sanrio

Sanrio

is a Japanese company that designs, licenses and produces products focusing on the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. Their products include stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories that are sold worldwide and at specialty brand retail stores in Japan...

. AHS are also heading the first project led by producers working with the software.

Released products

Product	Language	Sex	Voice sampled	Release date
SF-A2 Miki	Japanese	Female		2009-12-04December 4, 2009
Kaai Yuki	Japanese	Female		2009-12-04December 4, 2009
Hiyama Kiyoteru	Japanese	Male	Kiyoshi Hiyama	2009-12-04December 4, 2009
Nekomura Iroha	Japanese	Female		2010-10-22October 22, 2010

Upcoming products

Product	Language	Sex	Voice sampled	Release date
Untitled	Japanese			TBA

Speech synthesis

• Voiceroid
  Voiceroid
  Voiceroid is a speech synthesizer application developed by AH Software and is designed for speech. It is only available in the Japanese language. Its name comes from the singing software Vocaloid, for which Ah Software also develops voicebanks...
  
  
  • Tsukuyomi Shouta; based on a seven year old male.
  • Tsukuyomi Ai; based on a five year old female
  • Yoshida-Kun
  • Maki; a teenage female. Release date: November 12, 2010.