How Auto-Tune Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What began as a challenge to an oil engineer to make a terrible singer into a pitch-perfect one, Auto-Tune has become a ubiquitous (and, to many, obnoxious) part of the musical soundscape.

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0:46.1	Yep.
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0:48.1	Yep.
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0:52.7	That was great.
0:53.7	Hey, it's Matt.
0:54.7	Do I sound like Cher?
0:55.7	You sound like T-Pain.
0:57.7	T- Josh.
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0:59.7	Or Snoop Dogg.
1:00.7	Does he do the auto too?
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