YANHE

Yan He (言和) is a Chinese VOCALOID developed and distributed by Bplats, Inc., under the YAMAHA Corporation, and was created in collaboration with Shanghai He Nian. She was released in July 2013 for the VOCALOID3 engine.

Yan He is the grand winning entry of the second "VOCALOID™ CHINA" contest.

Etymology
Her name means (pinyin: Yán Hé) "Say peace." This is similar to the Chinese idiom "握手言和," which means, "shake hands and say peace," which is used to describe when enemies cease fighting.

Appearance
The design was drawn by MQ and is part of the 'Yan He Project.'

Yan He, like Luo Tianyi before her, had her avatar chosen via a competition.

Examples of Usage

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Marketing
Yan He had a similar marketing technique as Luo Tianyi and YOHIOloid; she was a fan-designed VOCALOID.

A second contest was held to see whose design would be the new image for the second Mandarin VOCALOID. It began on March 25, 2013, and ended at the end of April. On May 13, 2013, the 15 finalists were announced, and the winner along with the 4 runner-ups, were announced June 6, 2013. She had the most votes out of all 666 entries.

Trivia

 * Yan He's vocal was the 36th release for VOCALOID3 in total. The release assisted the VOCALOID3 engine successfully, as it became the largest engine version of VOCALOID™, beating the record of 35 vocals released for VOCALOID2.
 * She is the first VOCALOID to break the pattern of a female voicebank released with a male counterpart as the first two VOCALOIDs of a set language.