10 Best AI Tools to Transform Lyrics into Music

Whether you haven’t found an idea writing partner, or identify as more of a lyricist than a producer, lyrics to music AI generators can be an amazing tool to spark creativity. Below, we’ll showcase some of the best tools that will allow you to craft beats from lyric ideas, and explain the various types of music generators so that you can kickstart your creative process with AI. 

The Different Types of Music Generators

There are several ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into your music production process, some of which have been around for decades. Understanding the different types of generators available can help you identify the right tool for the job: 

Text to Music: These generators take general ideas (like build a pop song in the style of X) or literal lyrics and create instrumentation. 

Lyrics to Music: Lyrics to music generators have a similar concept as text to music generators, but they incorporate your lyrics within a piece of generated music, rather than use the words as prompting descriptors. 

Genre Style Transfer: Some AI models transform genres, allowing you to take a demo and try on different styles, or potentially craft the seed for a remix. 

Audio Continuation or Extender:  Whether you need a seamless loop for DJ mixes or a longer intro or outro for using music underneath content, you can use AI to extend sections of your composition. 

Style Sampler: Another great use of generative AI is crafting royalty-free samples to use in your compositions. You can input reference tracks similar to the style you’re looking for, and sample the output audio as needed. 

7 Music Generators to Consider: Lyrics to Music AI Tools

Ready to transform lyrics into music? Check out these AI-powered music generators: 

Suno

On Suno, you can craft songs from text prompts, images, or videos, which may be a unique perk for those looking for a more abstract production process. You can extend uploaded audio files with text prompts, and choose from a variety of personas to work with different vocal timbres (although, these profiles tend to be less consistent than a similar process with the Controlla Voice Swap Voice feature). Suno also offers a writing tool for crafting lyrics, letting you generate lyrics by entering a prompt, co-creating with AI, and editing line by line. 

Some users have reported a “shimmering effect” baked into generated music by Suno in the latest version, with certain genres like Rock having a more repetitive sound. Suno is engaged in a lawsuit with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), under the alleged use of copyrighted music within training data sets. 

Pricing: Suno offers credit-based plans, with free, $10- and $30- per month pricing tiers. 

Udio

Using a text prompt or by uploading an audio clip for inspiration, you can use Udio to generate beats out of thin air. Premium users have more production control as well as a remix feature that lets you maintain the composition and structure of song, even when switching up genres. Udio’s full suite contains other AI powered music tools, like song extenders, stem splitting, cover art generation, and even the creation of lyric videos. 

It’s worth noting that both Suno and Udio are currently engaged in an active lawsuit, alleging copyright infringement surrounding the songs and data the companies used to train their models. Anecdotally, some users have reported struggling to prompt high-quality outputs since the latest update, so it might take a bit more prompting power to achieve what you’re looking for. 

Pricing: Udio offers a free plan with a 10 credit limit per day. Paid plans cost $10 and $30 respectively, with additional features and allotted credits based on the plans. 

Controlla Voice Style Sampler

If you find yourself wanting to skip past the text prompts and get straight to generating samples, harmony layers, choirs, or transform your voice directly into instruments, consider giving Controlla Voice a spin. 

Controlla Voice suite offers you so much more than just lyric to music generation. Say you’re looking for a Kpop lyrics to music generator, but aren’t yet fluent in Korean… Not to worry! Controlla Voice allows you to train models using your own voice so that you can sing in other languages like French, Japanese, or Korean. 

Simply upload your references (one for vocal style, another for production style) and add your lyrics to Controlla Voice. Within minutes, you’ll have a generated song that can be downloaded and shared. You can also use Controlla Voice to transform your voice or vocal melodies into instruments like the saxophone, or generate choirs and harmony layers for fuller mixes. 

Our outputs are designed with the highest quality in mind for professional musicians and we hold strong to our code of ethics since, in our eyes, consent for the use of one’s likeness or artwork is not optional. We license our voices properly, ensuring that artistic integrity isn’t lost in translation. 

We’re a small, less flashy team than most. The means that Controlla products are built by musicians, for musicians. While we might not be backed with as much venture capital backing as some of the other competitors listed here, we have more incentive to create tools solely for the love of making music, and can offer more affordable prices without the pressure of VC profits. 

Pricing: You can choose between the starter plan at $12 a month or the creator plan at $30 a month.

Jen

Jen is an AI-Powered songwriting suite that provides a range of tools, including text to music, vocal style selectors, genre filters, and an in-app editor to adjust and expand your generated recordings. The model is focused around ethical sourcing, collaborating with real artists like Imogen Heap to train vocal style models and other products. While still in Beta, you can generate tracks up to 10 minutes long, which may be particularly useful for crafting background music for content or otherwise. 

Pricing: Jen operates on a per credit model, capping your generations based on your monthly credit balance. Pricing ranges from free to $10.00 to $249.99 a month.

Riffusion

Riffusion is building a reputation as a strong music generator, though it may have originated from humble beginnings. In addition to producing full-length songs from text or audio prompts, the generator can create sounds from visuals like photos or videos. As is the case with many other tools, it’s likely that Riffusion may be utilizing prompts to help train its models per the guidance of lawyer and creator Top Music Attorney, which is worth being aware of. 

Pricing: Artists can try the public beta for free for a limited time. 

Mureka

You can turn your ideas into songs using Mureka’s lyric to track generator within a matter of minutes. Enter in lyrics, select a vocal profile from the stock library of singers or upload your own, and add a couple of key descriptors before outputting a track. Mureka’s advanced plan allows you to have a slightly more curated experience, giving you the option of inputting precise melody ideas before carrying on to generation. 

Pricing: Mureka operates on a per credit basis. Monthly plans range between $10 and $30. Users can monetize their own tracks through Mureka’s AI library, and purchase non-exclusive and exclusive licenses for other tracks on the platform for $5 and $30 respectively. 

Ace Studios

Ace Studios AI generation is primarily focused around AI Voice Processing, allowing you to use AI vocalists or make the singing voice of any song editable. Notably, Ace Studios offers a vocal to MIDI interface, giving you an intuitive way to edit the melody, rhythm, and timbre of lyrics by blending multiple AI voices. You can also create your own model using the suite. 

Pricing: Ace Studio has a rent-to-own model with plans ranging from $16.58-$22.00 per month, billed monthly for 2 years before securing ownership of the software. 

3 AI Lyric Writing Tools

What if you already have a beat, but need to put words to the music? While there aren’t any tools out there (yet) that allow you to upload your beat and generate lyrics in a specific style and cadence, you can use these resources and lyric-writing products to create lyrics for a full song with just a couple of qualifying parameters: 

Kiin

Lyric generator Kiin has a clean, intuitive interface that can help you brainstorm lyric ideas by inputting a song prompt and brief description. You can select between several genres including rap, pop, gospel, country, heavy metal, and more to tweak your output. Kiin also prompts other parameters like ideal duration and song structure. You can also input keyboards, popular style references. Kiin plans range from $0.90 - $99.00 depending on your preferred access level. 

AI Freebox 

If you’re on the hunt for a free AI song lyrics generator or writing partner, check out AI Freebox. Provide a couple phrases and keywords for inspiration, choose your song genre, and select a “creativity level” and the web-based tool will generate proposed lyrics within a couple of seconds.  

Generate Lyrics

For a slightly more tailored lyric generator, you can try your hand at prompting the adeptly named, Generate Lyrics tool. This web app allows you to generate lyrics by inputting suggestions around lyrics, genre, mood, potential suggested lyrics, language, rhyme scheme and words per line to build a more refined output. 

Bonus: Other AI-Powered Tools for Musicians

These are not necessarily tools for direct lyric or beat generation, but can be incredibly useful across the recording process: 

Rate Your Music

All musicians should be familiar with the amazing database that is Rate Your Music. This database allows you to identify genres of your favorite songs, which can be incredibly useful for prompting lyrics or beats more aligned with your ideal output. This is also the database that AI startups tend to scrape for their text to song datasets, so it’s worth getting acclimated to the source material. 

ChatGPT

ChatGPT needs no introduction, but it’s worth remembering that the engine can be a great writing partner, whether that’s suggesting associated words, populating sample song lyrics, or giving you references to reflect your genre of choice. It can take some work to get the prompts just right, but it’s certainly worth toying around with if you haven’t already done so. 

Claude

Anthropic’s “AI-assistant” and collection of large language models Claude is similar to Chat GPT in function, but may hold a bit more strength when it comes to crafting nuanced, natural-sounding responses, particularly when it comes to creative writing. It’s an excellent writing partner for brainstorming lyrics. 

TextFX by Google

This is such a fun tool for lyric writing, creative writing, or otherwise. TextFx by Google generates literary devices and expansions based on prompts. For example, you can input a word and generate acronyms, sensory details for scenes, similes, and word clouds to spark inspiration. It’s one of the best writing partners for creating across several disciplines (and it’s free). 

The Best Music is Still Human

We’re lucky to live in an age where technology is democratized and available to many as it evolves. That being said, from our perspective, AI tools are meant to enhance musicians’ process, not replace it. Enjoy using these AI gadgets to craft songs, but don’t forget it’s you, not the tools themselves, that makes a piece meaningful. It’s up to you as an artist to curate and create in tandem with technology.