Google AI generates musical backing tracks to accompany singers

A synthetic intelligence referred to as SingSong can take a recording of an individual singing and create a backing monitor for it with the suitable rhythm, key and harmonies

By Matthew Sparkes

Google has educated a synthetic intelligence, named SingSong, that may generate a musical backing monitor to accompany folks’s recorded singing.

To develop it, Jesse Engel and his colleagues at Google Analysis used an algorithm to separate the instrumental and vocal elements from 46,000 hours of music after which fine-tuned an present AI mannequin – additionally created by Google Analysis, however for producing speech and piano music – on these pairs of recordings.

After that coaching, the tailored AI …