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

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	And y'all, you're in for a treat.
0:10.6	It's surprising and it's delightful from the multidisciplinary artist Holly Herndon.
0:16.4	Her Ted 2022 talk introduces us to her digital twin.
0:21.2	That is how she's married her own voice with AI to write songs using machine learning
0:27.2	of her voice.
0:28.6	By the end, she performs and so does her voice in a separate musician altogether.
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