Musings of a Snickerdoodle

 So, I obviously didn't get around to posting the AI Christmas songs anywhere near in time for Christmas. But I'll just throw some out there now:  Here are several of the Christmas songs my brother Tim and I had fun 'directing'. - I would have posted more of Tim's but Udio's new update won't let me download the video or audio of other people's 'creations' anymore, so the ones that are here are from back when I was able to download them. The first up is this one by Tim, "Look Who is Born", I really like the lyrics he wrote to it (unlike myself, he doesn't utilize AI at all for the lyrics, he writes them himself).  https://www.udio.com/songs/9UvYQHkFnbeLBfh4YWca2z?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing This next is one I 'directed', it is based on Mary's praise of God in Luke 1, and as usual, utilized Chat GPT due to my lack of rhyming skills and general word creativity. I usually generate...

For the past day or two my family and I have been playing with this new AI audio generator software called Udio (www.Udio.com).  At first I heard a sample of an instrumental piece someone had generated and it sounded very nice, so I decided to sign up and just see what it could do. It also lets you put in your own lyrics to generate music with. What I didn't really see coming was how well it could do voices...they sound real, and I don't mean AI real, I mean REAL.  They sound like actually people singing with their own individual voices (you can even hear them taking breaths). I have found it has been getting harder to find nice music, not just generally okay music, but music that you REALLY like. Most especially, Christian music.  Well Udio allows you to create it.  And you don't even have to be musically inclined, you just prompt it.   You type in prompts like "classical", "cinematic", "female voice" etc.. and add any lyrics you want and then...