Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create a new Beatles song, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.
McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back. The new song is set to be released later this year, he said.
Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC Radio. “He could separate them with AI. He’d tell the machine, ‘That’s a voice, this
