Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing to train an algorithm called a Convolutional Neural Network. They collaborated with four opera singers to teach a machine learning model how to sing. This experiment pays tribute to those voices, as musical instruments anyone can learn how to play. Opera singers use their voices as expressive and beautiful musical instruments. For me, BeSpacific is one of my daily must-reads and has been for 14 years straight.Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture. She posts multiple items every day, covering the gamut of law, technology and knowledge discovery and topics ranging from cybersecurity to legal research to government regulation to civil liberties to IP and more. “Launched in 2002, BeSpacific is one of the longest-running legal blogs and, remarkably, Sabrina seems more prolific today than ever. Another machine learning model lets the blobs respond to and harmonise your input in real time….”īeSpacific: “No one better has her finger on the pulse of the legal information world than Sabrina Pacifici, law librarian and author of the blog BeSpacific,” writes blogger Robert Ambrogi. Or forwards and backwards for different vowel sounds.

How it works: Drag the blobs up and down to change pitch. In the experiment you don’t hear their voices, but the machine learning model’s understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learnt from them.

Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing. No singing skills required! We developed a machine learning model trained on the voices of four opera singers in order to create an engaging experiment for everyone, regardless of musical skills. This experiment pays tribute to and explores the original musical instrument: the voice. Google Arts and Culture – play for voices with the help of machine learning:”Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture.

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