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New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 April - 21:47 · 1 minute
Between 2002 and 2005, I ran a music website where visitors could submit song titles that I would write and record a silly song around. In the liner notes for my first CD release in 2003, I wrote about a day when computers would potentially put me out of business, churning out music automatically at a pace I could not match. While I don't actively post music on that site anymore, that day is almost here.
On Wednesday, a group of ex-DeepMind employees launched Udio , a new AI music synthesis service that can create novel high-fidelity musical audio from written prompts, including user-provided lyrics. It's similar to Suno , which we covered on Monday. With some key human input, Udio can create facsimiles of human-produced music in genres like country , barbershop quartet , German pop , classical , hard rock , hip hop , show tunes , and more. It's currently free to use during a beta period.
Udio is also freaking out some musicians on Reddit. As we mentioned in our Suno piece, Udio is exactly the kind of AI-powered music generation service that over 200 musical artists were afraid of when they signed an open protest letter last week.