Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral.
Snap was clearly watching: it has just launched its own similar ‘Chat to Song’ feature for its Snapchat app – although for now, it’s only available for people who pay for its Lens+ subscription.
“Transform chat messages into short original songs,” is how Snap described the new feature in a blog post.
“Simply press and hold a message in Chat, select Create Song, choose a musical genre to generate a version of your chat set to music.”We have a few questions about this, as you will.
Is this Snapchat’s own AI-music model or one of a partner, and if the latter, whose?
Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral.
Publicity around the trend sent Suno’s iPhone app to the top of Apple’s App Store charts in the US, spurring the AI-music company to quickly add a feature to turn screenshots of messages into lyric prompts.
Snap was clearly watching: it has just launched its own similar ‘Chat to Song’ feature for its Snapchat app – although for now, it’s only available for people who pay for its Lens+ subscription.
“Transform chat messages into short original songs,” is how Snap described the new feature in a blog post. “Simply press and hold a message in Chat, select Create Song, choose a musical genre to generate a version of your chat set to music.”
We have a few questions about this, as you will. Is this Snapchat’s own AI-music model or one of a partner, and if the latter, whose? What music was that model trained on, and if it was commercial music, was it licensed?
