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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Why pitch-corrected vocals sound so mechanical
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:04:54 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>On Apr 11, 2025 at 1:13:40 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJF4lR3_eg

>On Sunday, Chris Siddall demo'd a new AI system called Cantai that can read
>lyrics in a score and sing them during playback. The realism was stunning. Up
>till now, you'd enter the lyrics in the score and just have to accept that
>while the software can mimic a human voice with reasonable accuracy, it
>couldn't actually read and sing the lyrics, so all you'd get would be an "ah"
>or "oh" on each note rather than the actual word. Now it can sing the actual
>words and do it with not only an amazing degree of accuracy but with actual
>musicality. Doesn't sound at all like a computer. Sounds like an actual person
>singing.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mTezdPLGI&t=2408s

Great! Swifties can experience a live concert and Taylor Swift won't
have to get out of bed.