The role of AI in music with SoundCloud’s Hazel Savage

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Hazel joins us to discuss the role of AI in music, the opportunities, challenges and future.

Hazel Savage is the VP Music Intelligence at SoundCloud and the founder of Musiio; a tech company using AI to make music easier to catalogue and find.

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00:00 Introduction and UNPARSED conference (Find out more at https://unparsedconf.com)
03:38 Welcome Hazel
10:05 Audio fingerprinting
12:40 The idea behind Musiio
16:20 Music streaming
20:05 Different music services
22:45 Discovering new music on soundcloud
26:10 What audio fingerprint is used for
29:00 Background tagging
34:20 Journalistic content
42:05 Image generation models
45:25 Independent music
49:43 The value of music
54:25 Writing prompts for music
59:20 Outro

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