The line between real and AI-generated sounds is going to blur further with YouTube’s Dream Track. This AI-based music project was being developed with Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab and it is ready to help short-form video creators unleash their composing skills. Read ahead to find out more about Dream Track and all the artists, whose musical talents you will be able to collaborate with.
How To Use YouTube’s Dream Track?
YouTube is dappling into AI with its tool Dream Track for YouTube Shorts. This tool aims to assist content creators in producing original music in the voice of popular singers. You won’t require any composing or singing skills to use this tool as long as you have a colorful imagination.
Here’s how it works: a user first types in an idea into the creation prompt of YouTube’s Dream Track, then picks a collaborating artist, and allows the AI to work its magic! Within a few moments you will have your music in the voice of the collaborating artist.
Each of the songs created using this tool will be 100% original as long as your prompt and collaborating artist doesn’t overlap with someone else. The song will be of 30 seconds perfect to use for YouTube shorts.
Dream Track is powered by Lyria, which is Google‘s most advanced music-generating model to date. If this launch is successful then the AI-based music will significantly change the dynamics of short-form video sharing apps.
Who are the collaborating artists?
YouTube has initiated its first trials of the experiment by collaborating with nine artists: Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Papoose, Sia, T-Pain, and Troye Sivan.
These popular musical creators have all the necessary specifications for the role. Each of them has a history of resonating with the new-gen internet users with mastery in various genres of music. Their fan-following and distinct vocal stylings are also perfect to push-start the new experiment.
Who can use YouTube Dream Track AI?
According to the announcement of YouTube, Dream Track will be available to a selected group of artists and creators on their platform. The head of music Lyor Cohen and Toni Reid, VP of emerging experiences and community products, shared that they are open to feedback during the initial stage so they can create better products and tools ahead.
They also wrote that the trial run aims to help explore how technology can create deeper connections between the artists, creators, and ultimately their fans. It is a tool that has the potential to alter the history of music similar to the introduction of synthesizers in Electronic and Rock music.
As much as this tool is attractive, many of the industry insiders have shared that it comes with its challenges. Firstly, the music created with an AI requires to be used responsibly and amplify the creativity rather than replace it, Cohen, former head of Warner Music Group shared. Secondly, the tool’s capability shouldn’t be misused and/or used without the permission of the artists.
Therefore, it might take a few trial runs before this tool is available to the general public but its announcement indicates that the AI-powered music industry‘s future is closer than one could have comprehended.