Bringing Original Masters to Karaoke

When karaoke company Singa secured groundbreaking deals with Warner Music Group, Merlin, and indie labels, they became the first platform to offer these original master recordings as karaoke tracks for users at scale. But with licensing agreements in place, Singa still faced a large technical challenge: how to transform studio masters into karaoke tracks that work?

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Traditional karaoke tracks are either covers created specifically for the format or hollowed-out versions that don't authentically represent the original. Needing a solution that could scale quickly, allowing Singa to distribute their new licensed catalogs globally while retaining the audio quality of the original, they turned to AudioShake.

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Singa integrated AudioShake's API, including its instrument stems and lead and backing vocal separation technology, as well as lyrics technology, to process original master recordings from artists like Kylie Minogue, Paramore, Linkin Park, Cardi B, and thousands of indie artists. AudioShake's AI models deliver industry-leading separation, which cleanly removes lead vocals and isolates all background instruments, while giving Singa independent control over backing vocals and harmonies. AudioShake’s lyric transcription and alignment technology also helps Singa’s team time-stamp their lyrics, word-by-word, to let fans sing along to their favorite tracks. Eliminating hours of manual work per track, AudioShake enabled Singa to process thousands of recordings with consistent, broadcast-quality results.

These original recordings now reach 2000+ Singa-powered venues and 2 million registered home users worldwide. AudioShake's stem separation and lyrics technology provided the technical foundation Singa needed to deliver on their licensing partnerships, transforming studio masters into premium karaoke experiences at the scale and quality their global network demands.