How AI helped Randy Travis get his voice back: 'I heard it, my eyes started leaking'
“What Warner Bros. did was send to London just the stems, just Randy’s vocal, to 45 songs...
Randy Travis is back on the road and releasing new music for the first time since the summer of 2013, when he suffered a near-fatal stroke that severely limited the country star’s ability to sing or speak.
James Dupré, who played the legend’s son in the film “The Price,” will do the singing when the More Life Tour plays Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Feb. 8.
And those new songs, “Where That Came From” and “Horses in Heaven,” were created with the help of artificial intelligence.
How it worked is Dupré cut a vocal track on “Where That Came From.” Then Travis’ longtime producer Kyle Lehning ran that vocal through two AI models made from vocal tracks Travis recorded from 1985 to 2013, piecing together a vocal that sounds enough like one of country music’s most distinctive voices that it brought his wife, Mary Travis, to tears in the studio…