In reply to All I do is Nguyen Say what?????? Randy Travis is my all time favorite music artist. Period.

My mom always loves to tell the story that when I was still small enough to be in a car seat there was one time when running errands she parked the car and turned off the radio while "Forever and Ever, Amen" was playing…and I started crying.

She turns the radio back on and once I hear the song I stop crying and once it's over I'm good and we go inside.

When he goes it'll likely be the first time I'll ever shed a tear for a celebrity's death…never thought I would ever get the chance to see him record music again!

Waiting to listen to this when I'm in a quiet setting and won't get distracted. Thank you for posting!

It's a pretty good song, and it mostly sounds like him. I haven't seen how they did it yet, but my guess is they sequenced/sampled/cloned his old voice and somehow used that triggered by another vocalist maybe? Or some kind of other controller? I dunno. I've never heard of that being done before, but I'm pretty sure he can't sing now. Maybe I'm mistaken.

Constructed via old recordings and AI.

"... longtime producer Kyle Lehning pieced together the song with the singer's blessing using old audio tracks of his voice as a launching pad. With another singer pitching in, a custom AI program overlaid Travis' voice on the new recording, with Lehning using the country legend's input to "painstakingly" mold the AI-generated vocals into a song that felt authentically Travis."

So he didn't release a new song, hell I can do this

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WestGalvestonAggie said:

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EclipseAg said:

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Constructed via old recordings and AI.

"... longtime producer Kyle Lehning pieced together the song with the singer's blessing using old audio tracks of his voice as a launching pad. With another singer pitching in, a custom AI program overlaid Travis' voice on the new recording, with Lehning using the country legend's input to "painstakingly" mold the AI-generated vocals into a song that felt authentically Travis."

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That's fascinating. And kinda scary...

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Yeah ... I think we need some kind of identifier on these AI vocal tracks so people know what is real and what isn't.

One of my all time favorite voices. There just aren't very many baritones these days.

He's had his personal struggles and then of course the stroke. But I'm glad to see him being recognized.

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There was a short time there in the early 2010's where a naked Randy Travis would rampage across north Texas in a fury. Just a really odd thing that I'd bet NOBODY had on their bingo card at the time.

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Yes, that was wild. He absolute lost his mind there for a while. I guess he has recovered from that.

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Belton Ag said:

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There was a short time there in the early 2010's where a naked Randy Travis would rampage across north Texas in a fury. Just a really odd thing that I'd bet NOBODY had on their bingo card at the time.

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Yes, that was wild. He absolute lost his mind there for a while. I guess he has recovered from that.

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yeah i don't think Randy will be doing any running round naked

Ah crap so it's not actually him in the recording booth?

In reply to jokershady Apparently not 100% but I'm okay with how they did it.

It is really scary what AI can do in the right hands. Makes it even scarier what AI can do in the WRONG hands too

In reply to Roll the Bones Didn't know Hames Dupre was the "donor" he has some pretty good songs that aren't easy to find anymore.

Okay, so that's pretty much exactly how I thought they did it.

As someone who's done audio production for about 30 years now, I love it on one hand, but, as Randy might say, on the other hand I have some concerns. I wish they would leave it as a one off recording, because it seems like original musicianship has been dying for decades, but my gut tells me we are going to see a lot of this.

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I have a Boggle trophy
On my bedroom shelf
I won it on my own
With help from no one else
Still I know that I'm not perfect
I have a flaw or two
But there's plenty of love here for you
From my head to my size 16 shoe
I have a Boggle trophy
On my bedroom shelf
I won it on my own
With help from no one else
If you want to be my lady
You're gonna have to accept
What you see is what I'll always be
This is just the way God made me

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