July 18th 2024

AI

AI-powered B2B audio company Music.AI strikes AI training partnership with cloud computing platform Vultr

Vultr, which claims to be the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, has teamed up with Music.AI, described as an “Audio Intelligence Platform for Businesses,” to access and accelerate AI training across North America.

Music.AI, founded and led by CEO Geraldo Ramos, launched in December 2023 as a B2B-focused company encompassing a number of AI tools, ranging from stem separation to voice synthesis and mastering.

Music.AI says that its tools are used by record labels, agencies, technology firms, and developers, and that it serves more than 45 million users worldwide.

AI headphones will soon change the way you hear the world

New technology is turning headphones into reality-editing machines that can reshape how you hear the world.

Audio: A Beacon of Trust in the Age of AI

Trust is the number one value brands need to instill in the new age of AI. Here’s why: Today, there’s much excitement about its potential to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and allow us to focus on what truly matters in our lives, both at work and personally. AI-generated images have captivated many, with 40% of people enjoying these digital creations. However, there’s a significant hurdle: trust.

Microsoft's AI speech generator VALL-E 2 'reaches human parity' — but it's too dangerous to release, scientists say | Live Science

Microsoft's VALL-E 2 can convincingly recreate human voices using just a few seconds of audio, its creators claim.

YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video

New erase song feature goes easier on videos with songs facing takedown complaints

Stability AI releases a sound generator

Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free recordings.

Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds Estates Set AI Audio Deal

ElevenLabs envisions users tapping Garland’s legendary pipes to read the original L. Frank Baum novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” or Laurence Olivier to deliver a Sherlock Holmes story, in addition to a range of other works.

ElevenLabs emphasizes that it has struck license agreements for authorized use of the legendary voices as part of the “Iconic Voices” feature of its app.

Tools

YouTube Upgrades AI Feature to Help Creators Remove Copyrighted Audio

The Erase Song feature can erase copyrighted songs from videos without muting entire sections of audio on a YouTube video

How to turn text into audio using ElevenLabs AI Reader

Leading AI giant Eleven Labs has taken text to speech generations to the next level with their AI Reader app. The company has been leading the game for years now, and have evolved significantly since it rolled out speech synthesis. And now, its latest feature, Iconic Voices, is nothing short of revolutionary.

Top 12 Audio Engineering Schools for 2024

Audio engineering schools are havens for anyone excited about learning the ins and outs of sound technology. If you’re curious or want to make a career out of audio production, read on.

Innovation

Resemble AI's next-generation AI audio detection model, Detect-2B, is 94% accurate

According to Resemble, Detect-2B’s sub-models “consist of a frozen audio representation model with an adaptation module inserted into its key layers.” The adaption module shifts the models’ focus towards artifacts — or the accidental sounds left in a recording — that often identify real audio from fake ones. Most AI-generated audio clips can sound “too clean.” Detect-2B can predict how much of the audio is made by AI without retraining the model every time it listens to a new clip. The sub-models are also trained on large datasets.

Hear How AI is Bringing Dead Hollywood Stars’ Voices Back to Life

Elevenlabs is bringing voices like James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Judy Garland back to life to read you the news.