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Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music

Audio and Speech Processing 2020-05-04 v1 Machine Learning Sound Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce Jukebox, a model that generates music with singing in the raw audio domain. We tackle the long context of raw audio using a multi-scale VQ-VAE to compress it to discrete codes, and modeling those using autoregressive Transformers. We show that the combined model at scale can generate high-fidelity and diverse songs with coherence up to multiple minutes. We can condition on artist and genre to steer the musical and vocal style, and on unaligned lyrics to make the singing more controllable. We are releasing thousands of non cherry-picked samples at https://jukebox.openai.com, along with model weights and code at https://github.com/openai/jukebox

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@article{arxiv.2005.00341,
  title  = {Jukebox: A Generative Model for Music},
  author = {Prafulla Dhariwal and Heewoo Jun and Christine Payne and Jong Wook Kim and Alec Radford and Ilya Sutskever},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00341},
  year   = {2020}
}
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