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What if you could sing in your favorite musician's voice? | Holly Herndon

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Create Music

Holly Plus uses a process called Tambour Transfer, where the sound quality of one sound may be mapped onto the performance of another. Searching an AI of the sonic properties of one sound in order to generate an entirely new sound is what I like to call spawning. Spawning allows Holly Plus to create a wide range of vocals that I didn't sing from a set of recorded phrases that I did sing. Could someone else go on tour as me with my permission? Could I be in a thousand different bands in multiple languages? And what would that even sound like? To be clear, musicians have been taught to be really protective over our IP. But I'm trying to think of ways

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