Beyond streaming: how AI will bring about the third audio revolution
Our series on the future of audio concludes with this third instalment. Developments in this field are coming thick and fast, and AI has burst onto the scene. It has been a sensational debut in every respect for this new technology, the full scope of which is still difficult to discern. Production, listening habits, playlists, sampling, remixing, creation, distribution: every aspect of audio is now being challenged… by AI, and fortunate indeed is the person who can foresee which directions will prevail… We shall therefore attempt, as in the previous instalments of this series, to extrapolate current trends, drawing on data from Médiamétrie and on data relating to the French population. To avoid overly simplistic projections, we have modelled a so-called ‘synthetic’ population, based on around thirty publicly available parameters.…