New Google tool lets you turn everyday sound into music

San Francisco, Oct 2 : Google has created a new machine learning tool called Tone Transfer that allows people to transform every sound like whistling into something like a violin, or a saxophone, or a flute.
“We created a tool called Tone Transfer to allow musicians and amateurs alike to tap into DDSP (Differentiable Digital Signal Processing) as a delightful creative tool,” Nida Zada, UX Lead, Google Research, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
An open source technology, DDSP is a new approach to machine learning that enables models to learn the characteristics of a musical instrument and map them to a different sound.
Developed by Google Research’s Magenta team, the process can lead to many creative, quirky results.
For example, one can try replacing a capella singing with a saxophone solo, or a dog barking with a trumpet performance.
“This development is important because it enables music technologies to become more inclusive,” Zada said.