To celebrate the “Bohemian Rhapsody” video hitting over 1 billion on views YouTube, Queen have launched a new challenge to see if their fans have what it takes to sing like the late Freddie Mercury. Fans can test themselves with the “FreddieMeter,” which uses artificial intelligence to see how close your vocals are to Mercury’s.
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A press release said the following:
“For decades, fans have belted out the song’s iconic lyrics alongside Freddie Mercury’s one-of-a-kind vocals, but how many can really sing it just like Freddie? YouTube, Google Creative Lab and Google Research working in partnership with Queen, Universal Music Group and Hollywood Records, have built a new AI experiment called FreddieMeter to find out!”
It went on to say that the “FreddieMeter” shows users “how closely their voice matches Freddie Mercury’s legendary range by analyzing the singer’s pitch, timbre, and melody to assign them a score of 0 to 100.”
Fans that try the “FreddieMeter” can choose from the following songs: “We Are The Champions,” “Somebody to Love,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
The challenge was launched in support of the Mercury Phoenix Trust and it also celebrates the 44th anniversary of the first-ever live performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody” at the Empire Theater in Liverpool, UK in November 1975.
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