Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends Amazon is releasing DeepComposer, a software package to help machine learning enthusiasts automatically generate jingles using a mini keyboard. The announcement was made by Matt Wood, VP of AI at AWS, during Amazon’s annual re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas. “Everyone has access to the type of expertise that allows …
Yeah talk about Garbage In, Garbage Out(!)
They should have used Liszt's transcription as the source if they wanted a Piano Only version!
Re that 6 minutes of transcript apparently "Voiced by Amazon Polly" - I presume that noise before each paragraph normally associated with the SFX hydraulic hiss of chrome and glass canisters of glowing green liquids being opened is meant to represent a human intake of breath? It's nearly as bad as Zoe Ball.
Re that 6 minutes of transcript apparently "Voiced by Amazon Polly" - I presume that noise before each paragraph normally associated with the SFX hydraulic hiss of chrome and glass canisters of glowing green liquids being opened is meant to represent a human intake of breath? It's nearly as bad as Zoe Ball.
It isn't like there isn't already functional examples of speaking voicebanks. Maybe they couldn't find one in English? (all the Voiceroids I know of are Japanese).
Unlikely. Vocaloid, I believe you are referring to, did had English voicebank from the first few generation of their product. It just that because the massive early success started from Japanese voicebank causes the Japanese ones to be more noticeable than the English one.
I believe it's more due to license, copyright, contract and ownership issues, which they would like to avoid from the start. However in reinventing the wheel, they have also caused plenty of other problems.
IKR! It's just "thump thump thump" these days! Just bloody noise, not music!! Not like when I was young.
Oh, actually, hang on, at any point since the creation of the charts it's been "cool" to pretend that you don't like popular music.
As you were!
>Oh, actually, hang on, at any point since the creation of the charts it's been "cool" to pretend that you don't like popular music.
After listening to Steve Wright in the Afternoon you'll come around to my way of thinking, that's if you don't want to jump off Beachy Head first.
it's cheaper than the piano my parents splurged for so I could learn to play. (That didn't quite work out as planned, though keyboard facility turned out to be useful for 'something' after all) This way parents can let the sprogs experiment with wishful thinking for much less expense.
BTW: In the same vein, a teen's first car must be at least half as old as they are. Let them learn the limits of their uncultivated abilities for cheap.
I wouldn't recommend this. First, this is more expensive than a larger keyboard with relatively few features. The cheap ones with 49 keys (four full octaves) will undercut this price quite a bit. The main reason, however, is that every keyboard I've seen with fewer than 49 keys has also taken the liberty of shrinking the keys so they're no longer the size of piano keys. That is bad because smaller keys will wreck the muscle memory that can be key to advanced fingering techniques. Using keys that will be of the standard size as any other piano, keyboard, organ, or harpsichord means that it will be easier to play more complex pieces later on. If you'd like to introduce people to piano playing, check for the basic midi keyboards for as cheap as is available; they'll probably well outstrip this.
Remember Google's web Bach-esque AI offering? This is basically the same thing, plus a cheap, cheesy keyboard.
The demo stuffed a good classical line into a rock-and-roll accompaniment, instead of using a rock-and-roll melody in the first place.
Remember, it's a toy. It's something to play with while your code slowly, oh so slowly, compiles within AWS. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait...
Like we need more plastic music.
I often wonder, when passing a TV playing 'drama' what it must be like to have a job where you compose or play those meaningless, content-free sequences of notes that fill in the gaps in the dialogue. Soul-destroying, I would think. If they even had a soul in the first place.
Didn't Julia in '1984' work on the novel-writing machines ? Orwell saw a lot further into the future than mere politics.
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