Researchers at Google have revealed a text-to-music AI that creates songs that can last as long as five minutes.
Releasing a paper with their work and findings so far, the team introduced MusicLM to the world with a number of examples that do bear a surprising resemblance to their text prompts.
The researchers claim their model “outperforms previous systems both in audio quality and adherence to the text description”.
The examples are 30-second snippets of the songs, and include their input captions such as:
- “The main soundtrack of an arcade game. It is fast-paced and upbeat, with a catchy electric guitar riff. The music is repetitive and easy to remember, but with unexpected sounds, like cymbal crashes or drum rolls”.
- “A fusion of reggaeton and electronic dance music, with a spacey, otherworldly sound. Induces the experience of being lost in space, and the music would be designed to evoke a sense of wonder and awe, while being danceable”.
- “A rising synth is playing an arpeggio with a lot of reverb. It is backed by pads, sub bass line and soft drums. This song is full of synth sounds creating a soothing and adventurous atmosphere. It may be playing at a festival during two songs for a buildup”.
Using AI to generate music is nothing new – but a tool that can actually generate passable music based on a simple text prompt has yet to be showcased yet. That is until now, according to the team behind MusicLM.
