Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-53539-20180415210749

Vocaloid is the software copyrighted and made by Yamaha.

We call the characters "Vocaloids" (its actually "vocaloid" without the s in Japan).

The voices are shortened to "voicebanks" in the English fandom because "Vocaloid library database plug-in" is a pain to keep writing all the time and it just saves time.

The music falls under the genre of "Vocaloid", simple because its made with the software, its not official because you can use "vocal synth" and other alternatives. ITs only used really for ease of use by other Vocaloid fans and not all vocaloid music bothers with it. Sad Machine didn't note its use of Avanna at all at first until it was pointed out.

The fandom has no name at all, we're just "Vocaloid fans" or "Vocaloid nuts" or "vocaloid nerds", etc.