Google’s Blob Opera is a enjoyable interactive experiment the place you possibly can drag the blobs on the display to make them sing utilizing AI voices.
Drag the blobs up and down to vary pitch. Or forwards and backwards for various vowel sounds. One other machine studying mannequin lets the blobs reply to and harmonise together with your enter in actual time.
You’ll be able to take the blobs on tour, altering the nation they’re singing from. In addition to enjoying your personal tunes, it’s also possible to make the blobs sing a curated number of conventional songs from every location. Change the venue and see what new songs they will sing!
Google collaborated with 4 opera singers to show a machine studying mannequin methods to sing. Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney recorded 16 hours of singing to coach an algorithm referred to as a Convolutional Neural Community. Within the experiment you don’t hear their voices, however the machine studying mannequin’s understanding of what opera singing appears like, based mostly on what it learnt from them.
I’m struggling to search out an precise curriculum use for this, but it surely’s an excessive amount of enjoyable to not share together with your class. At a pinch I suppose you might use it in Science to display pitch. It’s additionally an attention-grabbing demonstration of the function of AI.
You’ll be able to entry the Blob Opera right here. And if you happen to haven’t seen the remainder of the Google Arts and Tradition website, then take a while to discover among the different glorious assets.
For those who preferred this, check out Incredibox, which is one among my favorite music-making instruments.
