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The patent for Autotune can be found here: https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252?dq=5,973,252 https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252?dq=5,973,252 My (very
by soundwave106 9y ago
The patent for Autotune can be found here: https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252?dq=5,973,252 https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252?dq=5,973,252
My (very non-expert) reading of the patent is that it uses sample reduction and some specific features of the periodic form of the human voice to simplify the math involved in the auto-correlation routine. Although this routine does seem to be unique as far as I know, I wouldn't be surprised if it shares similarities to other techniques to reduce correlation complexity.
- hamiltonkibbe 9y agoPolyphase filters maybe? It's an approach used primarily in resampling, and its an easy way to skip a LOT of Multiply-by-zero-and-Accumulate-ing
- nejenendn 9y agoIt decoded to a phase vocoder on the nearest semitones.
- dspig 9y agoread the patent - all time domain, no phase vocoder involved.