MusicLM: Google Starts Testing AI That Can Create Music From Text

Digital MarketingFebruary 1, 2023
By Antonio Fernandez

Throughout 2022, many people who regularly follow news in the IT world were no doubt amazed at how the world was stepping fully into the age of AI. You could say that AI has begun to be developed to be more capable and more stable, to the point where it is being applied more and more in both the business sector and people's everyday lives. Not long ago, for example, many people may have grown familiar with Dall-E, an image-drawing AI that can help create graphic design work by turning words into beautiful pictures in the blink of an eye, or with ChatGPT, a super-intelligent AI chatbot that can answer just about any question you ask it.

Of course, Google, one of the Big Tech companies, didn't want to be left behind either. According to a report from Google AI (formerly known as Google Research), the team that primarily develops AI, it has revealed the development of a new project called MusicLM, an AI that can create songs from text that are several minutes long. Let's take a look at the details together.

MusicLM: A Music-Creating AI from Google

MusicLM is a Generative AI Model developed by the Google AI team that can create music in the 24KHz frequency range lasting several minutes from a set of text (English text), and it can even switch melodies into different styles. Google explains that MusicLM is an AI Model that learns from data referred to as "a Large dataset of unlabeled music." However, at this time Google does not yet have a plan to officially launch MusicLM due to concerns about the risk of it being used in the wrong way, but it has released some sample songs created by MusicLM for people to listen to. 

Sample Songs Created by MusicLM

The sample songs Google brought out to show fall into several categories, as follows:

As for the results from the samples Google presented, we have to say they are very interesting, because MusicLM can create songs in many different formats, whether generated from a caption.

It can also create a song five minutes long from a short keyword.

It can create songs in Story Mode, which involves specifying a theme for each period of the song to define what kind of musical mood you want, so they can be woven together smoothly.

It can create the same melody but change it into the sound of a wind instrument, a guitar, a piano, or even the voice of an opera singer.

The amazing thing about MusicLM is that it can even create music to accompany a drawing that comes with a description. 

Final Thoughts

For anyone interested in giving the sounds a listen, you can try listening at MusicLM: Generating Music From Text. In addition, Google has opened it up for those who specialize in developing music-related AI to try it out. For anyone who has seen it and wants to try playing around with it, you'll have to wait a bit longer. It's possible that within 2023 Google may well release a Beta version for everyone to try. 

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Antonio Fernandez

Antonio Fernandez

Founder and CEO of Relevant Audience. With over 15 years of experience in digital marketing strategy, he leads teams across southeast Asia in delivering exceptional results for clients through performance-focused digital solutions.

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