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We, robots.(Artifact)(singing robots)(Brief article)
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February 1, 2009|
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MEET EDUARDO MIRANDA'S singing robots. Miranda is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the University of Plymouth. He built these two warbling toasters, gave them both a vocal range and the ability to adapt, then put them in a room together for two weeks. They went in singing radically different "tunes"--random sequences of six notes at a time--and came out crooning an oddly haunting duet consisting of about 20 sounds.
The robots have simplified vocal cords, and their voices are strangely human. ...
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