Accelerating Music Generation for Leading AI Platform
Introduction
A leading AI platform partnered with Appen to enhance its AI-powered music generation feature. The client needed high-quality annotated music data to refine model performance, ensuring AI-composed melodies aligned with genre expectations. By integrating expert human review, Appen accelerated the feature’s market launch and improved the AI’s ability to generate coherent and stylistically appropriate music compositions.
Goal
The project aimed to develop an AI music generation model capable of producing high-quality songs based on user inputs. To train high-quality and robust music generation capabilities, the client required data annotation for large volumes of musical pieces.
Challenge
Developing AI-generated music posed several challenges:
- Complex music elements: Music data needed to be annotated for multiple complex elements including music genre, mood classification, and musical structure.
- Expert recruitment: The project required skilled music professionals to annotate and validate training data and model outputs.
- Scalability: A rapid annotation process was necessary to meet the client’s launch timeline.
Solution
Appen implemented a structured approach to support the project:
- Expert Music Annotation
A proactive recruitment strategy enabled Appen to rapidly identify music professions in our strong network of domain experts. These music professionals classified and annotated music compositions. - Real-Time Collaboration & Review
Robust processes with high-tough client collaboration to ensure music professionals were quickly onboarded and aligned with quality standards, ensuring the efficiency and accuracy of music annotations.
Results
Appen’s expertise in specialized multimodal generative AI data helped our client accelerate the development of their AI music feature with:
- Improved quality of AI-generated compositions.
- Expansion of new, more advanced generative music features.
- Faster market launch, driven by efficient annotation workflows.
Appen enabled the client to deliver a high-quality AI music generation feature, enhancing user experience and engagement on their platform.