Audacity's cool audio AI tools are now free for you to try

As AI PCs debut, one question you'll be asking yourself is: What can I do with them? Audacity has an early answer, with the release of its on-chip audio AI tools for music generation, transcription, and more. Intel used Audacity as a demo partner while describing the Meteor Lake (now rebranded as Core Ultra) architecture in Malaysia, showing off some of the tools that it formally released on Monday. The tools use OpenVINO, an open-source toolkit, but one developed by Intel and that the company has separately optimized. Audacity's new AI tools include: The issue is that these new AI tools, in addition to the CPU limitations placed upon them, require a single older version of Audacity installed: Audacity 3.4.2.