China’s Tencent Music Leisure has introduced {that a} observe it launched that includes vocals by an AI that mimics human voice has surpassed 100 million streams.
In a brand new report by Music Enterprise Worldwide, it was revealed that Tencent’s music division had created and launched over 1,000 tracks that includes the AI’s vocals, with one observe garnering over 100 million streams. The observe, titled As we speak (English translation) “has turn into the primary track by an AI singer to be streamed over 100 million occasions throughout the web”, TME’s Cussion Pang advised the outlet.
If had been streamed solely on Spotify, 100,000,000 streams would translate to a $348,000 in income, in line with StreamingCalculator.
The observe makes use of the “patented voice synthesis know-how” TME launched final 12 months, the Lingyin Engine, which may “rapidly and vividly replicate singers’ voices to supply unique songs of any fashion and language”. Moreover, the know-how has additionally been used to “pay tribute” to Anita Mui with a brand new observe titled Could You Be Handled Kindly By This World, which was created utilizing an AI code primarily based on her voice.
TME additionally introduced on November 15 that along with the voice tributes, the division will work to determine an AI singer lineup with the voices of “trending [i.e currently active] stars akin to Yang Chaoyue, amongst others”.
AI music creation is changing into an trade that’s quickly selecting up steam, as Korean music enterprise large HYBE acquired faux voice firm Supertone for ₩45 billion (approx. $31.75 million) earlier this 12 months in October. Supertone describes its “voice separation and synthesis AI know-how as capable of create “human-like, hyper-realistic and expressive voices,” with HYBE CEO Jiwon Park explaining that the newly acquired startup will “function a key piece of the know-how sphere we goal to create” within the wake of the corporate’s largest act BTS enlisting within the military to finish their necessary army service final month.
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