How Dr Andy Hildebrand invented AutoTune

From the article: "There were other consequences from the adoption of Auto-Tune. Hildebrand tells the story of a music producer who jokes that once he used to look for good singers, now . . . it’s pretty faces."<p>This is the reason that a lot of recent popular commercial music is crap to my ears. A lot of the real talent is hidden by "cosmetic imperfections" and isn't suited for the mass marketing machine that desires pretty faces. If you go back before the modern era of digital manipulation, you'll be amazed at the vocal talent that is represented.

Note than when surgeons were barbers, the Sorbonne was awarding PhD's....<p>Aside from the staggering memorization load in Med School, I would think the typical STEM PhD involves more work, and more creative work, than the MD. Certainly a lot more writing.

While I don't mean to make light of the effort and prestige behind earning a PhD, I can't be the only one who expected this article to be about how a medical doctor originally invented the technology behind AutoTune, possibly to help people who had trouble hearing certain types of audio.<p>Still an interesting background for the tech, mind you, but not what I was expecting from Dr. Andy Hildebrand (rather than Hildebrand, PhD).

I want an Android app that will autotune my voice as a microphone so I sing quietly into it and midi out is sent autotuned realtime voice.