Known as "the father of VOCALOID" is the SA Group Team leader of YAMAHA Sound Technology Development Center. In 2000 he began the first developments with a team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. VOCALOID was not originally intended to be a commercial product. He continued to be an important figure with the development of the VOCALOID software up until the announcement of his retirement on January 30th, 2015.
