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<\/p>\nSouth Korean folk rock singer Kim Kwang-seok has been dead for nearly 25 years, but his fans will be able to hear him perform a new song cover on Friday thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technology used to recreate his voice.<\/p>\n
The voice AI system – Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) – learned 20 songs of Kim based on training tool with over 700 Korean songs to improve accuracy, so that the system can mimic a new song in Kim\u2019s own style, according to the AI company Supertone which recreated the dead singer\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
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In part of a television show to be aired on Friday by South Korean broadcaster SBS, Competition of the Century: AI vs Human, the late singer\u2019s voice is used to perform I miss you, a ballad released in 2002 by the country\u2019s famous singer Kim Bum-soo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we were most cared and worried about was asking Kim\u2019s family for their permission,\u201d said Kim Min-ji, a producer of the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when we played the AI audio to his family, they were very happy with it. They were wary at first, but after listening to the outcome, they said it was like Kim Kwang-seok came back alive,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
To sound accurate, it was important that the voice and performance carried enough feeling, Nam Sang-moon, chief producer for the show, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about singing a song with emotions. And each note should be connected naturally, hence emotions can be delivered, which is the key point of the technology. The developers trained the AI to exactly imitate human\u2019s vocal organs,\u201d Nam said.<\/p>\n
Fears around AI in terms of copyright and possible ethics breaches should be addressed but should not overshadow the entire field, producers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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