The muse is with the machines, at least that’s how it seems right now if you look at the current news. After the conquest of the art scene by artificial intelligence, music is now following. There have already been reports in the past about how AI is completing or expanding unfinished masterpieces of music, but in China, artificial intelligence itself is becoming a star. More than 1,000 songs have already been released there with AI voices and some have well over 100 million streams. But what is behind all this?
The AI called Lingyin Engine can mimic the voices of human singers and then produce entirely new songs with those voices. The songs that were created here were extremely popular in China.
The Chinese company TME, which is behind the AI, has patented the technology and is currently using it to release songs with the voices of deceased and active Chinese singers. In doing so, the company claims that one of its tracks, titled “Today,” is the first AI song to surpass 100 million streams and generate nearly $350,000 in sales.
The company is also using its technology to release songs in different languages with the same synthetic voice to further capture the market.
