Just to clear things up

My man redell wrote a comment in my 'talk box' blog, he said talk box is dope, but t pain is an epidemic, well somthing like that, and I totally agree, t pain is wack. BUT, just to clarify for anyone else that might get it confused, what T pain does is TOTALLY different to what the talk box is, talk box uses a synth and your 'mouthing of words', notice i said mouthing not actually saying, to make the sound made famouse by Troutman. What T Pain does is called 'autotuning' and this is a program that automatically pitch shifts your voice to the nearest pitch you designate it to, say if you set the autotune to C, and you sing and record a vocal part in c but your a tad bit flat, it will automatically correct the pitch but keep the same time. What this basically means is you can be a crap singer but sound like your hitting every note perfectly, well with t pain it is blatant autotuning but most singers run their vocal through more subtle autotuning just to tidy things up, i do it, and i guarentee 99% of recording artists do it to!
The main difference, well the way i see it is, you need to be able to play the keys in order to be a good talk boxer, you need to hit the right notes at the right time, same with the pitch bend and modulation wheels, and youll find alot of talk boxing is done with one hand on the keys and one hand on the mod and pitch bend wheels, this takes ALOT of practise and talent to be able to do this all while mouthing the lyrics.

I hope this clears the confusion about T pain and talk boxing up, if you want to learn more about autotune go here: http://www.antarestech.com/products/auto-tune5.shtml