An American country music star has used artificial intelligence to make music again, years after suffering a stroke.
一位美國鄉村音樂明星在中風多年后再次使用人工智能創作音樂。
Randy Travis is 65 years old. He was a popular country music performer in the 1980s and 1990s and won several Grammy awards during his career. But in 2013, he went to the hospital with a heart problem and later had a stroke. The stroke made it hard for Travis to speak. He has not made music since his stroke – until now.
蘭迪·特拉維斯今年 65 歲。 他是20世紀80年代和90年代流行的鄉村音樂表演者，在他的職業生涯中多次獲得格萊美獎。 但2013年，他因心臟病入院，后來中風。 中風使特拉維斯說話變得困難。 自從中風以來，他一直沒有創作音樂，直到現在。
On May 3, Travis released a new song with the help of artificial intelligence, or AI. It is called Where That Came From. Nashville, Tennessee songwriters Scotty Emerick and John Scott Sherrill wrote the song.
5月3日，Travis 在人工智能（AI）的幫助下發布了一首新歌。 它的名字叫《從哪里來》。 田納西州納什維爾的詞曲作者斯科蒂·埃默里克和約翰·斯科特·謝里爾創作了這首歌。
Cris Lacy is co-president of Warner Music Nashville, the company that produces Travis’ music. Lacy said she contacted Travis’ wife Mary and asked “What if we could take Randy’s voice and recreate it using AI?”
克里斯·萊西 (Cris Lacy) 是納什維爾華納音樂公司 (Warner Music Nashville) 的聯合總裁，該公司為特拉維斯 (Travis) 制作音樂。 萊西說，她聯系了特拉維斯的妻子瑪麗并詢問“如果我們可以采用蘭迪的聲音并使用人工智能重新創建它怎么辦？”
“We were all over that, so we were so excited,” Mary Travis said about the chance to hear her husband’s voice in a new song. “All I ever wanted since the day of the stroke was to hear that voice again.”
“我們都沉浸在這一切之中，所以我們非常興奮，”瑪麗·特拉維斯談到有機會在一首新歌中聽到她丈夫的聲音時說道。 “自從中風那天起，我唯一想要的就是再次聽到那個聲音?！?nbsp;
Lacy talked with computer programmers in London about making an AI system that could recreate Travis’ voice. They produced two models. One model used 12 vocal samples from Travis’ career and the other used 42 samples. There was a lot of material to work with; the singer’s first big record, Storms of Life, came out in 1985.
萊西與倫敦的計算機程序員討論了如何制作一個可以重現特拉維斯聲音的人工智能系統。 他們生產了兩種型號。 一個模型使用了 Travis 職業生涯中的 12 個聲音樣本，另一個模型使用了 42 個樣本。 有很多材料可供使用； 這位歌手的第一張大唱片《Storms of Life》于 1985 年發行。
Travis’ long-time music producer is Kyle Lehning. He said Where That Came From was a song that fit Travis’ way of singing. When Travis was at the top of his career, he was known for a more traditional kind of country music. It was a contrast to the pop-country songs that were popular in the late 1980s.
特拉維斯的長期音樂制作人是凱爾·萊寧。 他說《Where That Came From》是一首適合特拉維斯演唱方式的歌曲。 當特拉維斯（Travis）處于職業生涯的巔峰時，他以更傳統的鄉村音樂而聞名。 這與 20 世紀 80 年代末流行的流行鄉村歌曲形成鮮明對比。
Lehning talked about the process of making the song. First, another singer recorded the song in what is known as a “demo.” Then the AI system analyzed the song and applied Travis’ voice to it.
萊寧談到了這首歌的制作過程。 首先，另一位歌手以所謂的“演示”形式錄制了這首歌。 然后人工智能系統分析了這首歌并將特拉維斯的聲音應用到其中。
“I really wish somebody had been here with a camera,” Lehning said about the experience of watching the computer apply Travis’ voice to the song. “And it was stunning, to me, how good it was … right off the bat.”
“我真的希望有人帶著相機來到這里，”萊寧談到觀看電腦將特拉維斯的聲音應用到歌曲中的經歷時說道。 “對我來說，這真是太棒了……立刻就變得多么好?！?/span>
Lehning said some parts of the sound created by the computer were “not authentic to Randy’s performance.” Lehning worked with Casey Wood, a recording engineer who knew Travis well, to get it right.
萊寧表示，計算機產生的聲音的某些部分“與蘭迪的表演并不真實”。 萊寧與熟悉特拉維斯的錄音工程師凱西·伍德合作，以確保其正確。
The two music professionals used sound parts from both vocal models. They made changes to the speed of some of the sounds. Lehning said Travis is “a laid-back singer,” so they had to slow down some parts. They wanted to keep an “old soul quality” in Travis’ voice.
兩位音樂專業人士使用了兩位聲樂模型的聲音部分。 他們改變了一些聲音的速度。 萊寧說特拉維斯是“一位悠閑的歌手”，所以他們不得不放慢一些部分的速度。 他們希望特拉維斯的聲音保持“古老的靈魂品質”。
Lehning said they were able to improve on the AI version. And Mary Travis said the final version of her husband’s song is much different than what happens when a computer programmer uses AI to create something without permission.
Lehning 表示他們能夠改進人工智能版本。 瑪麗·特拉維斯 (Mary Travis) 表示，她丈夫歌曲的最終版本與計算機程序員未經許可使用人工智能創建某些東西時發生的情況有很大不同。
She called the producers’ and engineers’ work on the project “the human element.”
她將該項目的制作人和工程師的工作稱為“人的因素”。
She added that her husband had a thoughtful look on his face when he first heard the song. “I think he went through every emotion there was in those three minutes of just hearing his voice again,” Mary Travis said.
她補充說，當她丈夫第一次聽到這首歌時，臉上露出若有所思的表情。 “我認為，在再次聽到他的聲音的那三分鐘里，他經歷了所有的情緒，”瑪麗·特拉維斯說。
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