Audiobox Responsible Generation Grant – Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria

Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria from Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) and his team has been selected to receive the Audiobox Responsible Generation Grant from Meta! This prestigious grant is awarded through a highly competitive international call for proposals, where Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria’s proposal to advance audio research impressed Meta. Recipients of the grant will receive access to Audiobox closed-source models, as well as funding of up to $50,000 to further their work.

Meta researchers introduce Audiobox, a new foundation audio generative model with enhanced controllability that aids users to more easily create their desired voices and sound effects. Audiobox can generate speech, voices and sound effects using a combination of voice inputs and natural language text prompts – making it easy to create custom audio for a wide range of use cases.