It's an innovation that will make every DJ and karaoke fan dream. There is now a tool, which takes any song, and is able to make it, an instrumental version and an a cappella version. This software is called Spleeter. We give it an MP3 file and we get two pieces. The first with voice and lyrics, and the second with only music. This is something very long and very complicated to do, for a result not always great. But using artificial intelligence algorithms, you can get the voice from a song or an instrumental version in just one click.
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Free and in free source code
It is a very practical tool if you want to do a karaoke or if you just want to have music, to illustrate a photo montage for example. For the moment, it is computer-only software. But it is free and open source, that is to say that anyone can modify it and adapt it as it sees fit. So I'm sure we'll see mobile apps soon. Basically, it is a French technology engineers Deezer. And this illustrates the ability of artificial intelligence to automate extremely complicated tasks.