The new experiment could have implications for the music industry. Microsoft’s DeepSinger could have implications for the music industry.
Microsoft is proving that artificial intelligence can realistically carry a tune in a new experiment published this week called DeepSinger.
The company’s researchers trained the system on data from music websites, using machine learning to isolate the vocal tracks from the instrumentals, then had it sing sets of lyrics in both Chinese and English acapella. While still far from a commercial reality, the technology—and other text-to-speech and vocal synthesis software like it—could eventually have implications for the music industry, allowing for better vocal touch-up tools or supplemental tracks but also opening the door to deepfakes and copyright battles.
