Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.I'll start today with some obscure music history
2.So if you're a David Bowie fan, you may already know this, but the chorus of the song "Starman" was actually borrowed from a 1937 blues song by T-Bone Fletcher, which I'm going to play you a clip of
3.(Audio) There’s a starman waiting in the sky He’d like to come and meet us but he thinks he’d blow our minds There’s a starman waiting in the sky (Music ends) Now I love Bowie's cover, but there’s just something about a beat-up guitar and an old man singing straight from the soul, that, to me, really gets to the emotion of the song
4.And I think what's most interesting is that I just made up that entire story
5.It was actually 100 percent AI
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B1)
everything
A2All the things under discussion.
Example:
"am I going to stop everything and research how that song was created?"
dictionary
A2A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meaning, and sometimes containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, translations, and other data.
Example:
"Is that much different than, say, a rhyming dictionary?"
instrument
B2A device used to produce music.
Example:
"What if I used AI to create a new instrument sound that's never existed?"
synthesizer
B1An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard.
Example:
"Now this is a question that’s come up with synthesizers,"
guitarist
A2Someone who plays a guitar.
Example:
"like a guitarist can use different guitars?"
illustrates
B1To shed light upon.
Example:
"but I do think this illustrates some of the confusion around this topic,"
confusion
B2A lack of clarity or order.
Example:
"but I do think this illustrates some of the confusion around this topic,"
deceptive
A2Likely or attempting to deceive.
Example:
"The first is, is it deceptive?"
intelligence
B2Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
Example:
"intelligence and soul.” ..."
photographs
B1A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Example:
"So many photographs"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| everything | A2 | All the things under discussion. |
| dictionary | A2 | A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meaning, and sometimes containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, translations, and other data. |
| instrument | B2 | A device used to produce music. |
| synthesizer | B1 | An electronic instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and has a keyboard. |
| guitarist | A2 | Someone who plays a guitar. |
| illustrates | B1 | To shed light upon. |
| confusion | B2 | A lack of clarity or order. |
| deceptive | A2 | Likely or attempting to deceive. |
| intelligence | B2 | Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn. |
| photographs | B1 | A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc. |
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