Stability AI Unveils Stable Audio - AI-Generated Music and Sound Effects From Text

Stable Audio is a new text-to-audio AI model from Stability AI that can generate high-quality music and sound effects from text prompts.
It builds on Stability's previous work on Stable Diffusion and was trained on a large dataset of over 800,000 audio files.
The model can generate up to 95 seconds of CD-quality 44.1 kHz stereo audio in under 1 second on an Nvidia A100 GPU.
Stable Audio will be released in a free tier with limited generations per month, and a $12/month Pro tier with more.
The technology promises production-ready AI-generated audio, though some musicians may protest being replaced by AI.

arstechnica.com

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