“Singing Bots and AI Generated Artist Albums – the imminent future?”

Melbourne, January the 17th, 2025

Will singing bots replace human vocal performers? 

With projections estimating the AI Entertainment and Media sector will expand from $2 billion USD to $12 billion USD by 2032, how is the public tracking in adopting AI generated entertainers?

2025 research into public adoption and sentiment towards AI generated vocal performers shows human singers are still preferable to generated singers and although listener comments trended more positive with time to AI singers, for the most part, comments were disdainful and negative (Chu, Kim, et al). 

This is consistent with research from Lee and colleagues (Lee , who found negative reactions to singing bots like fear and guilt, although some listeners were found to respond with awe and nostalgia and said AI-generated voices moved them. 

Singing voice synthesis has been in use since the late 1950’s, but new capabilities of generative ai are leading to improved simulations of bot based performers.

“From a human behaviour perspective, music and artistic expression are uniquely homosapien skills, so it is not surprising that artificial simulations of singing are received with distrust and even anger. AI tools can not completely mirror the mechanics of the human face while singing, yet, however the future is moving fast. Generated singing artists and their sound wave forms may not have mass appeal yet but trends indicate this could change” says Dr. Sarah Lobegeiger de Rodriguez, opera singer and communication expert at CADENZA

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