{"id":4080,"date":"2012-11-30T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:14:23","slug":"auto-tune-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2012\/11\/30\/auto-tune-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Tune your voice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/15007\">Jiro<\/a>'s pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/26337-autotune-toy\">Auto-Tune Toy<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/81771\">Carl<\/a>.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>First of all, let me just say that I'm not a singer; not even close. But after playing around with Carl's Auto-Tune Toy, maybe\r\n      I do have a future in the music industry! ... Okay, who am I kidding. I've determined that even Auto-Tune couldn't save me.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>I've heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto-Tune\">Auto-Tune<\/a> before, but I didn't know you could do it in MATLAB! This cool App by Carl lets you have fun with your voice, fixing any\r\n      pitch inaccuracies you may have.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>Here, I'm throwing away my pride and showing you how I transformed my bad rendition of the first few seconds of the nursery\r\n      rhyme <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb\">\"Mary Had a Little Lamb\"<\/a>. 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