New AI Album Reveals the Cloned Voice Industry and Web of AI Companies.

ElevenLabs and Spotify just released an album, The 11 Album featuring Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, and others all using AI in some way. "This is the first known direct deal between Spotify and an AI company to easily and directly distribute AI songs on the streaming platform" ...and it won't be the last.

This led to my learning more about ElevenLabs (created 2023), the large cloned voice market, and the surprising web of AI partners:

• ElevenLabs is known for cloning voices of celebrities that can be licensed. It created a Voice Market Place.
• ElevenLabs licenses the actual voices, pre-cloning, from CMG Worldwide that represents the estates of dead celebrities
• ElevenLabs partnered with Meta (Facebook)
• ElevenLabs, has partnered with Merlin, et.al that represents multiple artists and record labels, providing the music to train AI
• Merlin has partnered with UDIO, expanding its AI content
• UDIO has partnered with Universal Music Group

Without a lot of studio editing, easily using a clone of your voice, or that of the dead to sing your song, is probably the next big step in music AI...it's already begun. sources: https://snydersmusicbiznews.blogspot....