Legendary nation music star Randy Travis hasn’t launched a brand new single since struggling a stroke in 2013 that robbed him of his cherished singing voice. Till now. “CBS Information Sunday Morning” correspondent Lee Cowan will get an unique inside have a look at how cutting-edge synthetic intelligence enabled Travis to as soon as once more elevate his voice in tune in a narrative to be broadcast Sunday, Could 5 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
“There’s simply a lot chatter about all of the detrimental sides of AI,” stated Cris Lacy, co-chair and president of Warner Music Nashville. “We began with this idea of, ‘What would AI … appear like for us?’ And the very first thing that got here to thoughts [was] we might give Randy Travis his voice again.”
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Medical doctors gave Travis (“Endlessly and Ever, Amen,” “Deeper Than the Holler”) only a 2% probability of surviving the stroke. In addition to paralysis, the realm of his mind controlling speech and language was broken nearly past restore.
Cowan talked with Travis and his spouse, Mary, and likewise bought a behind-the-scenes have a look at how Travis’ longtime producer, Kyle Lehning, with Travis’ blessing, crafted a tune utilizing the chart-topping singer’s previous audio tracks as a place to begin. With the assistance of one other singer, a specially-designed AI program overlayed Travis’ voice on the brand new recording. With Travis’ enter, Lehning painstakingly molded the AI-generated vocal right into a tune that felt genuine to the nation icon. “It isn’t about the way it sounds. It is about the way it feels,” Lehning stated.
“Him being right here and him with the ability to be, you recognize, an important a part of the decision-making course of makes all of the distinction to me,” Lehning stated.
“It is Randy Travis,” stated Lacy. “Randy’s on the opposite aspect of the microphone. … It is nonetheless his vocal …There is no cause he should not be capable to make music. … And to deprive him of that, if he nonetheless needs to do this, that is unconscionable to me.”
Cowan was there when Travis’ nation music family and friends heard the tune for the primary time. Travis’ single, “The place That Got here From,” was launched to the general public on Could 3.
“It is so bizarre to attempt to clarify every part that goes by your head if you’re listening to it,” stated his stepdaughter, Cavanaugh Mauch.
Watch a preview clip from Lee Cowan’s report above.
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