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  • Randy Travis releases new music with the help of AI after a stroke

    For the first time since suffering a stroke, Randy Travis has released new music — with the help of artificial intelligence. The country star's latest single, "Where That Came From," arrived Friday after Travis and his wife, Mary Travis, permitted his record label to re-create his soulful vocals using AI, according to the Associated Press. Until last week, Randy Travis hadn't put out anything new in roughly a decade. After he was hospitalized and diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy (a disease...

  • Randy Travis's first song post-stroke used AI

    With some help from artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis, celebrated for his timeless hits like “Forever and Ever, Amen” and “I Told You So,” has his voice back. In July 2013, Travis was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy, a virus that attacks the heart, and later suffered a stroke. The Country Music Hall of Famer had to relearn how to walk, spell and read in the years that followed. A condition called aphasia limits his ability to speak—it’s why his wife Mary Travis...