


Just in time for Christmas, Google has announced the return of the Blob Opera, as they can now perform a handful of Christmas songs.

Visit to make your very own festive music, courtesy #BlobOpera 🎶 /jBSCXd3hhw But you can also record songs yourself by dragging the different blobs up and down or back and forth. For the unaware, the Blob Opera is a set of four blobs that make use of machine learning to “sing” a variety of different songs. So, when you drag a blob to make it sing, the others will join to create a melody that matches your pitch and vowel sound in real-time.One of the weirdest and frankly most awesome bits during the Google I/O 2021 Keynote was the introduction of the Blob Opera. So, the model uses the knowledge it gained from the singers to make the blobs touch the right notes and create the right sounds to produce a melodious festive song.Īpart from the machine learning model that powers the singing of the blobs, there is another one that makes them sing together. Google developed this AI-powered model based on 16 hours of singing by four professional opera singers – Christian Joel (Tenor), Frederick Tong (Bass), Joanne Gamble (Mezzo-soprano), and Olivia Doutney (Soprano). These colorful Blobs are powered by a machine learning model. While moving up and down changes the pitch, horizontal pulls change the vowel sound. Creating your own song is as simple as dragging the blobs up, down, and sideways. The machine learning-powered experiment by David Li, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, gives you control over four blobs that take up different opera voices - from bass to soprano. With the help of some adorable little blobs - reminiscent of Google’s much-loved old emoji - you can create festive songs before sharing them with friends and family. Google’s new machine learning experiment, called Blob Opera, aims to let you create a festive song from scratch and record it to share with the world. Christmas is just around the corner, and we all love hearing comforting Christmas songs at this time of the year.
