autotune
/ˈɔːtəʊtjuːn
/noun (also US trademark Auto-Tune)
A device or facility for tuning something automatically, especially a computer program which enables the correction of an out-of-tune vocal performance.Basically, the idea is you take real news and real newsmakers, and you put them through an auto tune....
- Turn on the radio and without turning the dial you find one-hit wonders, wanna-be gangsters, lying fools, and most importantly autotune.
- Sonically, the song is great, but for Brown to constantly drown his voice in auto-tune is getting annoying.
verb [with object]
1Tune (something) automatically: there’s also an FM radio which can autotune stations and has a ‘record’ option...
- You can autotune up to 10 programmes at a time.
- It's like a roadtrip to hell where the radio autotunes to whatever's heaviest.
- Switch the box to "game" when you're using it, switch to the TV/Cable input manually, and don't let your TV try to autotune its way to a signal.
1.1Alter the pitch of (a voice recording) by means of a computer program: vocals are often autotuned to fake perfection (as adjective autotuned) Cher is the woman that many credit for bringing autotuned vocals into mainstream music...
- She sounds so good she almost sounds autotuned.
- While we may cringe at the autotuned quality of her voice, we can't help but agree with the lyrics.
- The only music available was the lute and your natural voice, so that ruled out autotuned pop stars.