auto-tune
verb
au·to-tune
ˈȯ-ˌtō-ˌt(y)ün 
variants
or Auto-Tune
auto-tuned or Auto-Tuned; auto-tuning or Auto-Tuning; auto-tunes or Auto-Tunes
: to adjust or alter (a recording) with Auto-Tune software especially to correct sung notes that are out of tune
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Pearce didn't catch on overnight on TikTok need auto-tune to arrive at her voice on the record, Bublé says.
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 19 Dec. 2024
Their vocals are clear and strong and supple to a degree many of us have learned not to expect after too many movie musicals that cast merely adequate singers and then Auto-Tune them to death.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
But the end result still sounds auto-tuned up the wazoo, zhuzhed further with great dollops of coloratura note-bending and wailing.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Their 2018 debut New Bois overflows with quirky genre hallmarks including cartoonish auto-tune and Nextel chirps, and even a couple of features from Polimá Westcoast.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
Many are out of tune despite the availability of auto-tuning vocals.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
The 1998 single pioneered the use of auto-tune technology in pop music.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
Listen to the full episode of Into It to learn more about how Spears’s voice and sound — augmented, auto-tuned, yet authentic — ushered in a new era of pop music and pop stardom.
—Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
Imaginations became liabilities, and by the time auto-tune reached ubiquity, rap had become a fantastically impotent and artistically irrelevant shadow of its former self.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 19 Dec. 2024
Their vocals are clear and strong and supple to a degree many of us have learned not to expect after too many movie musicals that cast merely adequate singers and then Auto-Tune them to death.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
But the end result still sounds auto-tuned up the wazoo, zhuzhed further with great dollops of coloratura note-bending and wailing.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Their 2018 debut New Bois overflows with quirky genre hallmarks including cartoonish auto-tune and Nextel chirps, and even a couple of features from Polimá Westcoast.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
Many are out of tune despite the availability of auto-tuning vocals.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
The 1998 single pioneered the use of auto-tune technology in pop music.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
Listen to the full episode of Into It to learn more about how Spears’s voice and sound — augmented, auto-tuned, yet authentic — ushered in a new era of pop music and pop stardom.
—Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
Imaginations became liabilities, and by the time auto-tune reached ubiquity, rap had become a fantastically impotent and artistically irrelevant shadow of its former self.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023
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“Auto-tune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auto-tune. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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