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What if You Could Sing in Your Favorite Musician’s Voice? | Holly Herndon | TED

What if you could create new music using your favorite musician’s voice? Sharing her melodic gifts with the world, multidisciplinary artist Holly Herndon introduces Holly+, an AI-powered instrument that lets people sing with her own voice. Musician Pher joins her onstage to demonstrate this mind-blowing tech while singing into two microphones — one that amplifies…

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What if you could create new music using your favorite musician’s voice? Sharing her melodic gifts with the world, multidisciplinary artist Holly Herndon introduces Holly+, an AI-powered instrument that lets people sing with her own voice. Musician Pher joins her onstage to demonstrate this mind-blowing tech while singing into two microphones — one that amplifies his natural voice and another that makes him sound just like Holly.

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  1. ghanditw

    September 8, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    where can we get the software?

  2. SpiritProf

    September 8, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    Beatboxers need to work with this tech

  3. Bee

    September 8, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    Which company is producing this technology?

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  4. antonioas709

    September 8, 2022 at 3:07 pm

    Scary to imagine how this could be used the wrong way

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  5. NOVIANISYA MAHARANI SUSANTO

    September 8, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    wow

  6. Matthias Bertsch

    September 8, 2022 at 3:32 pm

    This technique focus on timbre and not in the time dimension. You do not imitate someone by changing timbre. It’s fun anyway, but not to the extent she claims.

  7. Robert VonHerndon

    September 8, 2022 at 3:41 pm

    Interesting!

  8. Jordi Pascual Casas

    September 8, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    I’m catalan and i love this intro but it was difficult to understand the language tbh

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  9. Slangy Russian Words

    September 8, 2022 at 4:12 pm

    Great!

  10. John Eric

    September 8, 2022 at 4:31 pm

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      September 8, 2022 at 4:38 pm

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      September 8, 2022 at 4:38 pm

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  11. VISIONARI

    September 8, 2022 at 4:49 pm

    Fantastic and at the same time pose ethic issues that we should consider…

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  12. стасёк

    September 8, 2022 at 5:10 pm

    how to try it out?

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  13. grndgdnke

    September 8, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    The german was impossible to understand. Not impressed other than “it can sing something”.

  14. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    September 8, 2022 at 5:44 pm

    Ted talk discovered utau and vocaloid

  15. WaitForSummerTime

    September 8, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    This is wild! The immortalization of a voice could have a lot of practical use for those with vocal disabilities who lose access to their voice, giving them the ability to sing again (or even the first time!) and make musical careers more accessible to them. Or maybe even beloved, aging musicians who love to perform but begin to lose their vocal strength over time. I wonder if it’s possible to put an auditory equivalent of a watermark on the tracks so you could tell if this AI was being used.

  16. Psydrone

    September 8, 2022 at 6:56 pm

    With this you can create a fully virtual singer, is fucking insane

    • TheLegend27

      September 8, 2022 at 9:15 pm

      _Miku says hi._

  17. Albert Anguela

    September 8, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    I am catalan and I barely managed to understand one word of the opening song

  18. Jerry VanNuys

    September 8, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Karaoke night just got a lot better.

    • Jerry VanNuys

      September 8, 2022 at 8:30 pm

      “I’d like to sing a Another One Bite The Dust in Barry White’s voice, please.”

  19. sonicase

    September 8, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    pretty cool…how is there no latency, is it actually processing or just getting a gate from the microphone and following pre written lyrics?…guess I’ll have to look into it

  20. Alfred Lee

    September 8, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    All this does is open up a new avenue for exploitation for record labels – in one fell swoop they will be able to “own” an artist’s literal voice for perpetuity. Meanwhile, Holly gets to be the arms dealer who sells this technology for multi millions and walk off “hoping new laws are invented to curb it’s misuse”

    • Sarri

      September 9, 2022 at 10:56 am

      Scary

  21. R

    September 8, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Great ! now Indian scammers will be speaking to your granma in a fine posh accent.

  22. Kathleen Warner

    September 9, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Can this be used to just talk in another language?

  23. Hananmadinah Official

    September 9, 2022 at 1:10 am

    Excellent, very good sound and very interesting content. Can be used to learn English for me who can’t yet hehe I hope the content continues to grow, cheers

  24. Nestor Fortuna

    September 9, 2022 at 1:11 am

    Amy Winehouse, now!

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  28. TheseusTitan

    September 9, 2022 at 1:56 am

    This is as bad as auto-tune but on steroids. It may offer new opportunities but it also takes away from the people who have real talent and spent years honing their skillsets in music..

    • obi dobo

      September 9, 2022 at 4:57 am

      Here’s something that’ll blow your mind. Every single artist that you love uses some form of pitch correction in the studio. That is how recording music works. Auto tune isn’t what you think it is and choosing to use it has nothing to do with “real talent”

  29. Diego

    September 9, 2022 at 3:09 am

    Is that Hime hair cut?

  30. Dean Hovey

    September 9, 2022 at 4:12 am

    Amazing

  31. Cesar Chirinos

    September 9, 2022 at 6:12 am

    necesitamos la versión completa de bésame mucho, holly por favor

  32. Kathryn Adkisson

    September 9, 2022 at 7:07 am

    I wonder about this every time I list to my favorite songs

  33. Vanessa Raeder

    September 9, 2022 at 7:40 am

    We won’t be able to trust any media any longer (have been on that road for a while).

  34. Simon Russell

    September 9, 2022 at 11:31 am

    Love the Herndon

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      September 9, 2022 at 1:26 pm

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  35. Immortal Ideas

    September 9, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    Just be yourself..
    Music in its true self is simply you enjoying vibrations.
    No training or conformity needed.

  36. Panama

    September 9, 2022 at 5:26 pm

    They always think about what we could make and not about if we should make it

  37. Yuumain

    September 9, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    I don’t know if others noticed this, but his vibrato made her voice sound out of tune sometimes, even when on Holly+ alone. “a wide variety of phrases in my entire vocal range” is too vague if she meant musical phrases or spoken. If musical it could be clashing vibratos, if not it would be so much more interesting to understand why.

    It could even be just throwing the singer off when it changed.

    • Noman Dodson

      September 14, 2022 at 12:25 am

      Well, whatever imperfections you hear will be worked out. This is absolutely crazy what they are doing

    • Yuumain

      September 14, 2022 at 12:39 am

      @Noman Dodson I just thought it was interesting that’s happening, I wasn’t criticizing it…

  38. Fran Križan

    September 9, 2022 at 11:25 pm

    🤯

  39. i'maminidonut

    September 10, 2022 at 3:55 am

    We just got a perfect teacher.

  40. The Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation

    September 10, 2022 at 9:45 am

    Yeah this scary not encouraging

  41. Pedro leonard

    September 10, 2022 at 2:36 pm

    Successful people don’t become that way
    overnight. What most people see at a glance-
    wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of
    hard work and hustle over time. I pray that
    anyone who reads this will be successful in
    life.

    • Samuel Ogbeche

      September 10, 2022 at 5:06 pm

      When I saw testimonies all over the place I thought it was made up stories till I was convinced and gave it a try and honestly I don’t regret the move I made because I invested in a big way 🤗

  42. Inov8tion16

    September 11, 2022 at 3:58 am

    Lemme sing like Maynard James Keenan and I will sell my soul…again

  43. Jenisha Neupane

    September 11, 2022 at 4:39 am

    WOW! This is amazing….

  44. 谭明东

    September 11, 2022 at 5:39 am

    how amazing

  45. Flinty Custard

    September 11, 2022 at 6:59 am

    Nah : Too fake : Must be a better use for this technology : Something that is of benefit to mankind other than copying/faking someone else’s voice as a party trick.

    • Noman Dodson

      September 14, 2022 at 12:30 am

      You think this is as good as it gets? Uh, if this is new technology, you can be sure that they will perfect it. That’s how tech works dude.

  46. Robin

    September 11, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    To be fair and to be honest the german wasn’t really understandable.

  47. cyberprimate

    September 11, 2022 at 4:18 pm

    I wish I could use Nina Simone’s voice. Will it be possible to create a Nina+ or Kurt+ with just the recordings that we have ?

  48. Karras Bommer

    September 12, 2022 at 12:09 am

    This scares me. Serious identity theft.

  49. hongxing yang

    September 12, 2022 at 1:30 am

    amazing!

  50. futbalverse

    September 12, 2022 at 5:39 am

    What if You Could Sing in Your Favorite Musician’s Voice? – Answer: I would be a rich millionaire now. 😂

  51. 유미니네

    September 12, 2022 at 7:24 am

    mom, i want a that 🎤 🎙 🎤 🎙

  52. Paul Moen

    September 12, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Oh great.. First auto-tune, now this.. Why do we even need human talent at all (other than programming skills). I may be old school, but I really dislike this.

  53. Wylkes & Wiman

    September 13, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    Besame Mucho is in my playlist. Just saying. Mmh…

  54. 11 & 10 (Da & TD)

    September 13, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    Besame Mucho is in my playlist. Just saying. Mmh…

  55. Wylkes & Wiman

    September 13, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    She looks like Weng, my mentor.

  56. 11 & 10 (Da & TD)

    September 13, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    She looks like Weng, my mentor.

  57. Fancy Free

    September 13, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    I would like to sing in the voice of Yo-Yo Ma’s cello.

  58. Nikki Y

    September 14, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    I would have named the AI “Ursula”

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