Generative Ai Model Fugatto Unveiled, Can Create Never-before-heard Sounds

Researchers at Nvidia have created a new generative AI model named Fugatto which can generate ‘entirely new sounds’ from any mix of music, voices, and sounds. The tool has been likened to a ‘Swiss Army knife’ for sound as it can allow users to control audio output by text alone. The Fugatto model, short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1, can generate or transform any mix of music, voices and sounds described with prompts using any combination of text and audio files. “This thing is wild,” said Ido Zmishlany, a multi-platinum producer and songwriter — and cofounder of One Take Audio, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups in a blog post announcing the AI model. “Sound is my inspiration.