AudioShake wins Sony Demixing Challenge
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This summer, Sony launched the first-ever “Demixing challenge.” In this global contest, participants from around the world — including research institutes, private companies, and hobbyist coders — submitted their AI models to run against the same test set so that their results could be compared by SDR score.
AudioShake scored nearly a half decibel higher than the second-place winner, a researcher from Facebook. In third place was a research team from Korea University. TikTok parent company, Byte Dance, was also in the top ten. Particularly notable was AudioShake’s vocal stem, which was a full decibel higher than any other competing team.
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What’s most exciting about this contest is all the momentum building in the field of music information retrieval. The uses of sound separation are broad — from music and entertainment experiences, to hearing aids and other audio experiences — so having more researchers tackling these challenges offers the possibility to address real problems that affect people in their daily lives.