Testing Out ElevenLabs' New AI Music Generation

AI Music Generation isn’t anything new, but ElevenLabs entering the field is certainly an eye and ear-catching proposition.

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ElevenLabs has been an industry leader in AI voice, notably as a pioneer in text to speech, as well as voice cloning, and dubbing. They are at the forefront of the technology and are making it accessible to pretty much anyone with an email address. More extensive usage will need subscriptions, but with a free account you can generate two to three songs.

It’s easy to think of personal uses for this, like generating simple music ideas that you can share, creating music beds for presentations, or even trying to prompt it to make your imagined WWE walk-in theme music. Professional use is even more extensive, especially for creatives who might need to generate music quickly but don’t have the luxury of pulling a band together in the studio.

I’ve been using Suno and Udio for music generation every once ina while for the past few years. Within that short amount of time, these apps have made huge advances in their quality. Where before they sounded close to stock music, now they're able to create rich, full-sounding songs with surprisingly passable lyrics and sometimes lyrics with wit that could get a passing grade in a college poetry class.

It’s against Suno that I’m going to compare the performance of ElevenLabs' music. I’m using free plans for both.