Meta’s AudioGen text-to-audio artificial intelligence model could create sound for video games, movie soundtracks or music production
Technology
October 7, 2022
An AI can create sounds related to a text prompt given to it Maksim Kabakou/Shutterstock
An artificial intelligence model developed by the owner of Facebook Meta can generate sounds from a text prompt.
AudioGen, an AI that Meta and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have been working on, turns text prompts such as “whistle with the wind blowing” into an audio file that sounds like the script described. It’s the sound equivalent of popular AI-based systems that generate images from text prompts, such as SLAB or Midjourney, and which captured the public’s imagination in…