HELLO!!! (Wika/Teto here) I finally decided to do my VOCALOID homework, since it's kinda funny i take part in blog about vocaloids knowing nothing about them *_*...
So here's what i learned about Teto:
,,Birthday": April 1st 2008
●Creation: Following the rising popularity of Hatsune Miku, "Vippers" (Vip News Bulletin@2ch users) schemed a troll "new VOCALOID release" as an April Fool's joke. Sen (線) provided the rough sketch and Mayo Oyamano (小山乃 舞世) provided the vocal. The Teto project continued after the troll campaign, and her vocal was recorded again for the use on UTAU.
●Although TECHNICALLY she isn't a VOCALOID since it's programme owned by Yamaha, and she's UTAU, you still can call her that because vocaloid in colloquiall language now is simply name for voice synthetizors.
●The first cover song using Teto was created as early as April 6, 2008, and her signature song "耳のあるロボットの唄 (Mimi no Aru Robot no Uta)" was published on June 10 by Mimirobo-P.
Since then several creators started to create Teto songs. Some of these early works include "Fake Diva", "Triple Baka", "Kasane Territory", and "Popipo Mk-II".
● Her surname (重音) literally means ,,heavy sound" or ,,overlapped sound" and name ,,テト" ,,Teto" comes from Tetospettenson a parody song of Le Beau Tambour
● What does gender:chimera mean? Teto isn't strictly male or female (although she is often seen as feminine), she's a mythical hybrid often depicted as mix of animalistic traits. Since she started as a joke, fans who created her also wanted to make her gender ambiguous, and ended up making her Chimera. From what i know her swirls made out of hair are supposed to represent horns, so cute!=]
●What about jokes that she's polish vocaloid? I didn't find a specific reason as for why, but from what i understand teto is multilingual UTAU, she can sing in several languages. Although technically Polish isn't one of them, her speech is actually really coherent and she's (from what i know) only ,,vocaloid" that you can easly understand when you make them use polish. Because of that people used her voice to cover a lot of Polish songs, and hence came the joke that we should adopt her. The fact that her hair are red and in one of the designs has white ribbon makes her fit Polish flag very well.
That's all i gathered for today, and i attach fanarts i did of her below, hope you like them=]
(I did a couple of coloristical versions, the yellowish one is my fav and dark-orange is