auto-tune
verbEtymology From auto- + tune, a trademark registered to Antares Audio Technologies.
1
To tune (an engine, industrial process, etc.) automatically.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To correct the pitch of a vocal or instrumental performance.
- The singing is sometimes pure and sometimes processed into exaggeratedly AutoTuned “Alvin and the Chipmunks” automation.2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times:
- Related terms
- autotuner, the Cher effect