19th-century audio recordings sounded uncanny and creepy to their audiences (noted yesterday). We might see a new form of that, if this project succeeds.
engineers and computer programmers are getting closer to being able to “resurrect” any singer’s voice for use in synthesized songs.
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[T]he Vocaloid team has announced that it has succeeded in building a library based on the voice of someone who couldn’t participate in the painstaking process: Hitoshi Ueki, a popular Japanese vocalist who died in 2007. The initial results were revealed on a Japanese video-streaming site earlier this year.
“As far as I know, many viewers were satisfied with the result, and so am I,” said Yamaha researcher Hideki Kenmochi in an e-mail to Wired.com. “It really sounds like him, because the creator [the programmer in charge of the voice library] did a good job.”
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