After Simon Cowell's U.K.-based singing antagonism The X-Factor acquired an online uproar for application Auto-Tune, American Idol producers are authoritative it actual bright that they won't accomplish the aforementioned mistake.

"We accept never, nor would we ever, use Auto-Tuning [an audio processor that corrects a singer's angle and tone] during the American Idol competition," producers for the Fox absoluteness alternation said in a statement.

Simon Cowell's X Factor confesses to Auto-Tune use

Contestants accept been accepted to get a little off-key, and adjudicator Randy Jackson is consistently continuing by to cascade that singers accept been a little "pitchy."

Still changing (and a Fox arranger articulate adequate to not even be asked): Who will be anticipation Idol next year now that Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi are gone?

A U.S. adaptation of X Factor is slated to admission in 2011 on Fox, with Cowell set to aftermath and judge.