Simulating Human Musical Performance

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 19, 1999 @09:05AM from the will-for-food dept.

GFD writes "The EETimes has a story about a software program that can mimic the subtlties that humans give to a musical performance to give it a particular emotion or style. Apparently it is already so convincing that some TV producers are using it rather than live musicians. Long range plans are to clone the musical styles of famous musicians. Interesting question - there is no question that a Jimmy Hendrix could copyright his music but could he copyright his style? " Bet they can't mimic all 3 of my power chords.

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Forget about instrumentals by webslacker · 1999-10-19 04:24 · Score: 4

What I wanna know is, can they come up with a way to make Britney Spears' lip-synching more realistic?
Lip-sync to what? by Morgaine · 1999-10-19 05:29 · Score: 5

Oh, you mean you have the sound turned on?

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