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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How Auto-Tune Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2021

⏱️ 57 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. Learn more in this classic episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.3

Hey everybody, it's your old pal Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S.

0:35.2

Selects, I've chosen how auto-tune works.

0:38.0

Came out in August of 2015 and it's one of my under-the-rate our favorites because it looks

0:42.9

at something that's worked its way into every crevice of popular culture.

0:47.3

But that none of us really has any idea about how it works or where it came from.

0:52.5

And this episode is a special listener mail roundtable with us and Holly and Tracy from

0:58.1

Stuff You Missed in History class, all about sexism.

1:01.3

It's super interesting and really kind of out of left field after the auto-tune episode.

1:05.8

So it's a nice combination and I hope you enjoy.

1:13.6

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.

1:23.4

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

1:25.0

I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

1:28.4

Yep, there's Jerry.

1:29.9

Yep.

1:30.9

And this is Stuff You Should Know.

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