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Adobe is revolutionizing sound design with its latest AI innovation, MultiFoley. This tool generates perfectly synced sound effects from text, audio, or video prompts, allowing users to create anything in seconds.

Whether for a Hollywood blockbuster or a creator’s video newsletter, Adobe’s MultiFoley brings precision and ease to sound design.

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• Adobe’s MultiFoley

• Top 3 selected AI tools

• Top news on the AI horizon

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How AI is Impacting the World

MultiFoley’s perfectly synced sound effects

Adobe’s MultiFoley AI, developed with the University of Michigan, reimagines how sound effects are added to videos, blending creativity with cutting-edge AI. By accepting input from text prompts, reference audio, or video, MultiFoley crafts synchronized Foley effects at a stunning 48kHz audio quality. Imagine a cat’s meow becoming a lion’s roar or typewriter keys mimicking piano notes—all perfectly timed to video footage. It’s a significant leap forward, considering most systems lag behind video by over a second, while MultiFoley’s synchronization accuracy averages just 0.8 seconds.

What makes MultiFoley a first-of-its-kind is its multi-input flexibility and robust synchronization technology. It analyzes video visuals at 8 FPS and scales this data to sync with 40 Hz audio samples, ensuring tight integration between sound and movement. User testing highlights its superiority: over 94% of participants preferred MultiFoley’s synchronization, and 85.8% rated it more semantically consistent than competing systems. However, its training dataset is relatively small, which limits the range of sounds it can produce, and it struggles with overlapping audio generation.

While not yet integrated into Adobe’s Premiere Pro, MultiFoley’s release could be transformative for individual creators and production studios, simplifying and elevating sound design.

Important Points

• MultiFoley generates Foley sound effects from text, audio, or video inputs

• It syncs sounds to video with 0.8-second accuracy and 48kHz quality

• Users preferred MultiFoley for synchronization and sound accuracy over others

• It struggles with overlapping sounds and limited training data

• Potential integration with Adobe Premiere Pro could simplify sound design

How I Plan to Use This:

• Generating sound effects to make my social media content more engaging

• Adding sound effects to my home videos

• Creating signature audio cues, like a custom chime or ding, to make my audio newsletter instantly recognizable

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On the Horizon

• This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

• Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app

• No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI

• The company behind Arc is building a new AI web browser called Dia

• Hume just made it possible to control a computer with your voice

• OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked

• Hacker wins $47,000 by tricking AI chatbot with smart prompting

• Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency

• LLMs can outperform neuroscientists at predicting research outcomes

• Why Europe doesn't have a trillion-dollar company, according to Meta's head of AI

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