Question regarding vocal synths

[Foxboy]

How would Doug's metatalent react to this?
http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/1021368091/a ... dd6c26/p/1 Watch more YouTube videos on AOL VideoAck! I did NOT mean for that to auto play!
Anyhow. Would a vocal synth like Hatsune Miku [the "singer" here] count as both instrument and singer if Doug is aware she's not a real person? Or would this particular performance count as a capella?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Bob Schroeck]

By this point I've heard enough vocal synths that this isn't new to me.

As far as I'm concerned, if Doug can make out the lyrics -- or even just most of them -- it doesn't matter if it's a computer or Bob Dylan at his most mushmouthed. It's not who or what's singing them, it's that they can be heard. 
And on instrument-vs-singer, if it's singing, it's a singer.  And if all that're making up the orchestration are "voices", natural or not, then it's "a capella" as far as his gift is concerned.
And might I say, that transcription of "Over The Rainbow" sounds like it was done by someone who doesn't know a word of English...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.