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I'll try to give a serious answer, even if I suppose yours was a nice joke :)

Music is a language, even if with no semantic. It has conventions, dialects, a syntax, a grammar. There are multiple dimensions a musician uses to convey what he wants/feels: just like an actor has to control at the same time its voice, posture, interplay with other actors, so a good musician is aware of the structure of the piece he is composing/executing, the relations between the various subparts, how the musical discourse progresses in time, besides agogic, dynamics, sound color.

All of those aspects are continually perpetually compared against the conventions of the genre, mixed, evolved, strictly followed or balatantly negated.

This is something that normally a professional musician takes decades to master (apart from musical geniuses).

A listener takes less time to educate himself to appreciate those nuances (but not too little: let's say ~years). Once you develop a taste, it becomes very obvious to see through the spectrum that goes from bad quality tunes to musical artistry.

I see nothing musically interesting in this (wonderful) PoC of speech synthesis.

Just to be clear: I did not see anything particularly stunning even in Google's Bach Doodle from some years ago https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-johann-sebastian-b...




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