variants or Auto-Tune
auto-tuned or Auto-Tuned; auto-tuning or Auto-Tuning; auto-tunes or Auto-Tunes

transitive verb

: to adjust or alter (a recording) with Auto-Tune software especially to correct sung notes that are out of tune

Examples of auto-tune in a Sentence

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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. 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

Word History

Etymology

Auto-Tune, trademark for a signal processor

First Known Use

1997, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of auto-tune was in 1997

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Cite this Entry

“Auto-tune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auto-tune. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.

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