AI generates melodies from lyrics

Generating sequences of musical notes from lyrics might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but thanks to AI, it might someday become as commonplace as internet radio. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org "Melody generation from lyrics has been a challenging research issue in the field of artificial intelligence and music, which enables to learn and discover latent relationship between interesting lyrics and accompanying melody," wrote the paper's coauthors. "With the development of available lyrics and melody dataset and [AI], musical knowledge mining between lyrics and melody has gradually become possible." As the researchers explain, notes have two musical attributes: pitch and duration.