AudioCraft (MusicGen, AudioGen, EnCodec)
Open-sourced MusicGen (text-to-music), AudioGen (sound effects) and improved EnCodec codec under MIT license.
Gave researchers a single codebase for autoregressive audio generation over discrete codec tokens; MusicGen trained on ~20,000 hours of licensed music became a widely used open music baseline.
- Date
- Wednesday, 2 August 2023
- Lab
- Meta
- Kind
- open-weights
- Access
- open weights
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| MusicGen training data | ~20,000 hours (~400k recordings) licensed music | company |
MusicGen paper and weights first appeared June 2023; this is the AudioCraft consolidation.
Sources
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