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by Humphrey 511 days ago
- Most time is spent in the iPhone's Notes & Voice Memo apps.

- I try Rhymezone, but it rarely helps me find a word I hadn't already though of.

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary [1] as it also helps find great family rhymes - but is a very manual process.

- ChatGPT voice chat for object writing - mostly just because I'm more of a vocal processor - I forbid it from writing anything, and instruct it clearly to just listen and give me a list of the metaphors, imagery, and descriptive words that I tell it. I've always struggled with motivation to do object writing, but I quite enjoy doing it audibly like this.

- ChatGPT as a proof-reader. Eg "Review the following song for me. What would new listeners think the song is about and saying". You need to be careful though, because it will often tell you stupid stuff like "the melody is great" even though you haven't shared a melody.

- ChatGPT as a sounding board when I'm battling over a very specific phrase or wording. More as a sounding board though, as I usually don't use it's suggestions.

- Logic Pro - The latest version lets you add chords and have it auto play some basic AI session players - which is great for fleshing out the basic ideas, and having something I can play on repeat why I write lyrics. Once I'm happy with the song, I'll then start replacing the AI tracks with human created tracks.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Complete-Rhyming-Dictionary-Clemen...

1 comments

Chatgpt: "There's no such thing as a wonderwall. Listeners won't understand it or like it."
The word is already very well represented in ChatGPT's training data since it's a cliché ("Anyway, here's Wonderwall"), and its origins go back 50+ years.