Stable Audio Open
Zach Evans, Julian D. Parker, CJ Carr, Zack Zukowski, Josiah Taylor, Jordi Pons
Abstract
Open generative models are vitally important for the community, allowing for fine-tunes and serving as baselines when presenting new models. However, most current text-to-audio models are private and not accessible for artists and researchers to build upon. Here we describe the architecture and training process of a new open-weights text-to-audio model trained with Creative Commons data. Our evaluation shows that the model’s performance is competitive with the state-of-the-art across various metrics. Notably, the reported FD<inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">openl3</inf> results (measuring the realism of the generations) showcase its potential for high-quality stereo sound synthesis at 44.1kHz.