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Universal Music Group announced a partnership with an AI music tech startup called SoundLabs on Tuesday, with the largest music company in the world set to use the deal to offer AI voice model tech to its roster in the coming months.

Umg’s artists and record producers will be able to use SoundLabs’ upcoming feature called MicDrop starting later this summer, and as the companies said in their announcement, the platform allows the artists to make voice models of their own using data the artists provide. SoundLabs gives the...

There was a time when Randy Travis needed someone to save his life after a debilitating stroke left him unable to speak. Now, the country music legend has been credited with saving a fan’s life through music. Keep reading for more on the wholesome interaction.

Randy Travis Embraces AI

Musicians across genres have spoken out against the use of AI as the groundbreaking technology becomes more common. Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton both shared their opinions on using artificial intelligence in music. Lainey Wilson addressed Congress earlier this year about the dangers of AI.

But one artist is embracing AI completely. Randy Travis just released his first new recording since he suffered a stroke over a decade ago. The stroke robbed him of his ability to walk, speak, and sing, though he has recovered slightly.

Randy Travis/Credit: YouTube

With the help of AI, he just topped the charts with “Where That Came From.

Randy Travis has a new hit song on the charts thanks to artificial intelligence. Does the singer plan to release more music using AI?

Mary Travis Reacts To Hearing Husband’s Voice Again

Randy Travis has a powerful baritone and an impressive catalog of classic hits like “Forever and Ever, Amen.” Yet, after a series of health challenges, his ability to create new music has been missing. That is, until now.

He released his first new song in over a decade earlier this month. A few new singles released in 2020 were recorded decades before a debilitating stroke robbed him of his voice. “Where That Came From” used artificial intelligence technology to recreate Randy Travis’ voice on a new recording.

The singer attended the ACM Awards this month for the first time since his stroke. Fox News caught up with Travis and his wife, Mary, on the red carpet. His wife...

Randy Travis released his first newly recorded song since his 2013 stroke. He’s bringing his More Life tour to a popular Nashville venue in the coming weeks. Now fans wonder if he will return to performing full-time backed by AI.

Randy Travis Tops Charts With Song Created With AI

Country singer Randy Travis suffered a stroke in 2013 that almost cost him his life. It took his ability to speak, walk, and sing. He regained some of his mobility in the decade since the stroke. However, he relies on a wheelchair most of the time. One thing he hasn’t done since the stroke is sing.

He did release new music in 2020 with a series of singles from his vault, recorded back in the 1980s. Randy Travis made his way back to the top of the music charts this month with a newly recorded single, “Where That Came From.”

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The singer who provided the “vocal bed” for Randy Travis on the country legend’s A.I.-assisted “Where That Came From” will perform all of Travis’s 16 Number One hits at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on June 5. James Dupré will sub for Travis, who lost most of his ability to speak after a 2013 stroke, on what’s being called the More Life Tour, an ongoing tribute tour to Travis featuring Dupré fronting Travis’s original band. Travis and his wife, Mary, will be in attendance at the Ryman date.

Randy Travis’s AI voice-clone song “Where That Came From” has officially landed the singer on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. It’s his first radio-charting song in about 20 years, according to the singer’s team.

“Where That Came From” marked Travis’s first new song since he suffered a near-fatal stroke back in 2013 that robbed him of most of his singing ability. His longtime producer Kyle Lehning used AI tech to overlay decade-old lyrics originally performed by country singer James Dupré with Travis’s vocal sound.

The track is...

James Dupré was just as surprised as everyone when he heard Randy Travis’s AI-assisted vocal on “Where That Came From” for the first time a few weeks ago, but not just because it was the country legend’s first new song since suffering a 2013 stroke that robbed him of his speech. Dupré was stunned when he realized that it was actually his voice he was hearing, at least in part.

“I really just thought he recorded it years ago and I never knew about it,” Dupré tells Rolling Stone.

Country Music Hall of Fame member Randy Travis has released his first new song in over a decade, “Where That Came From.” The announcement, delivered via the “Forever and Ever, Amen” vocalist’s social media, has spurred considerable excitement and curiosity from country fans and marks one of the most impossible comebacks in music history: Travis has been mostly unable to sing or speak since suffering a near-fatal stroke in 2013.

The questions about how Travis recorded the new song are myriad, and his team kept the information close to the vest until Friday,...