Yaboi Hanoi wins the 2022 AI Song Contest

On 6 July, the organisers of the AI Song Contest revealed the winner of this year's competition. What makes this song stand out is that it uses Thai tuning. Most AI models are rooted in Western definitions of melody, harmony and tuning. This means that models can only output notes on the 12-note Western scale, making it very difficult to apply machine learning to music from many musical cultures around the world. In his submission, Lamtharn aimed to demonstrate "how advancements in realtime audio machine learning enable unprecedented audio synthesis with respect to a culture's native tuning".