Google's AI can turn text into music

 Researchers at Google have revealed a text-to-music Al that creates songs that can last as long as five minutes.

Releasing a paper with their work and findings so far, the team introduced MusicLM to the world with a number of examples that do bear a surprising resemblance to their text prompts.

The researchers claim their model "outperforms previous systems both in audio quality and adherence to the text description".

Using Al to generate music is nothing new - but a tool that can actually generate passable music based on a simple text prompt has yet to be showcased yet. That is until now, according to the team behind MusicLM.

The model also allows for audio input, in the form of whistling or humming for example, to help to inform the melody of the song, which will then be "rendered in the style described by the text prompt".

It has not yet been released to the public, with the authors acknowledging the risks of potential "misappropriation of creative content" should a generated song not differ sufficiently from the source material the model learned from.