Meta releases AI tools to create music from text prompts

Driving the news: Meta released three tools for research use under the AudioCraft moniker.

• MediaGen is designed for creating music from text and was trained using music owned or licensed by Meta.
• AudioGen is designed for creating sound effects based on a written description.
• A third tool, EnCodec, is a decoding engine that Meta is also making available to researchers.

Between the lines: Meta is aiming to boost adoption of its AI tools by making them broadly available, as was the case with last month's release of Llama 2, which is free for commercial use.

Yes, but: Meta acknowledges a lack of diversity in the types of music used to train the system, as well as the use of English-only metadata.