Uberduck is an AI voice generation company that offers text-to-speech features, AI rappers, voice cloning and voice-to-voice conversion. The website enjoyed viral popularity in 2021 Q4, hosting a small collection of celebrity voice AI models that anyone could use for free. Site visitors made typed in lyrics, generated audio files, and could edit the AI vocals in their DAW. As one might expect, the internet rushed in. AI voice training became a kind of underground obsession in Discord channels. P| AudioCipher
Historians will look back at 2023 as the year text-to-music software made its big debut. AudioCipher published version 3.0 of the text-to-MIDI VST in January, followed by AI services like MusicLM, MusicGen and Chirp in May, June and July. But what if a developer flipped the script and published an AI music-to-text application instead? AI music companies like Moises have explored this previously, but these were lyric-to-text transcription services, like karaoke or the closed captions that appear| AudioCipher
Riffusion is an AI-powered text-to-song generator, on par with Suno and Udio. Like those apps, Riffusion accepts lyrics and descriptions of music styles. It uses those prompts to generate short music clips with singing, rapping and screaming AI vocalists. They launched V1 in December 2022, followed by a $4M seed round and V2 in October 2023. Near the end of July 2024, they released a new mobile app that centered around an image-to-song generation experience. Riffusion is moving away from the...| AudioCipher
HookTheory is a music software company built for songwriters and composers. Their core interface is a colorful MIDI piano roll that supports melodies and chord charts. They have two major products available, including a free song directory called TheoryTab and a music creation tool called HookPad. TheoryTab hosts over 50,000 user generated transcriptions of popular songs across every genre. Site visitors can search for an artist, pick a song, and explore the underlying chords + melodies to see| AudioCipher
ElevenLabs is one of the world's top sites for generating realistic AI speaking voices. Users pick between text-to-speech or voice-to-voice cloning, leveraging ethically trained models or training their own custom AI voices. In June 2024, the company released an AI sound effect generator with 1,000 seconds of audio for new users who want to try the service risk-free.ElevenLabs Text to Sound EffectsWondering how they arrived at SFX from speaking voices? Back in February 2024, ElevenLabs joined Di| AudioCipher
Generative AI music has evolved rapidly over the past two years. Following decades of research and development in academic circles, the general public is finally gaining access to consumer-friendly interfaces. Musicians are enjoying a renaissance of new plugins and DAW features powered by the same technology. The first wave of AI music creation in 2023 centered around text-to-music. That trend was followed by a second wave of apps like Suno and Udio, offering text-to-song. However, there's a sle| AudioCipher
Celebrities lashed out at Apple this week in response to an advertisement for their new iPad Pro. The short promotional trailer depicted a trumpet, grand piano, guitar, and record player being slowly crushed by a hydraulic press. When the plates finally separated for the big reveal, all that remained was a thin, sleek Apple tablet. That didn't go over so well with artists in the anti-AI camp.Crush! | iPad Pro | AppleMany interpreted the ad as advocating for "crushing the arts" with technology. A| AudioCipher
Creating a music video used to be a time consuming and expensive process. But in a world where our success is connected to presence on social media, people have started looking for new ways to create visual content to stands out from the crowd. AI music videos are one of the most popular choices in 2024. The video above is from Die Antwoord, an avant-pop group who turned their song Age of Illusion into an ai-generated animation. They are one of several major artists, alongside Linkin Park, to em| AudioCipher
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we create and listen to music. As of 2024, anyone can boot up an AI song generator to create original tracks in minutes. People are sharing these creations on social media and getting the social validation that some musicians work hard to earn. With every passing month, fan psychology is transforming from a passive consumer mindset to one where they expect to participate in the creation process. Artificial intelligence is the engine that makes this pos| AudioCipher
Artificial intelligence is changing the way people create and listen to music. Anyone can boot up an AI song generator like Suno, Riffusion, VoiceMod and Udio to create original tracks in minutes. The broader category of text-to-music apps like our MIDI app AudioCipher have aimed to solve sample, chord and melody generation for music producers. They were built as creative inspiration tools that fit into your DAW workflow. AI text to song apps, on the other hand, seem to be driving toward the com| AudioCipher
Here are the best text-to-music apps in 2023| AudioCipher
The expression generative audio workstation refers to the future state of DAWs. As gen AI tools continue to diversify and become more powerful, there will be an almost unlimited number of ways to edit and experiment with sound. We're already seeing signs of this in the latest collaborative multiplayer DAWs. A handful of companies have made the first move to create and maintain GAWs for the public. In December 2023, FL Studio released a new AI mastering feature that took the internet by surprise| AudioCipher
Text-to-speech apps like Siri have been around for decades, but until recently they were never able to hold a tune. Recent improvements to AI voice models and AI generated music have given birth to AI singing voice generators. AI web apps like Suno and Riffusion are combining text-to-music prompt workflows with AI singing voices to perform any lyrics. Users enter a written description of the genre or style they want and have a song in 30-60 seconds. Behind the scenes, these kinds of text-to-sing| AudioCipher
Apple recently acquired a big AI music company. Here's what music producers can expect in the coming years.| AudioCipher