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    "slug": "riffusion",
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    "slug": "soundverse",
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    "slug": "suno",
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    "slug": "udio",
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    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/udio.json"
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   {
    "slug": "wavespeed-ai",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/wavespeed-ai.json"
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   {
    "slug": "yue-2",
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    "type": "model",
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   "field": "access",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "Weights on Hugging Face (m-a-p). Windows via community Pinokio installer. Needs CUDA 11.8+. About 360 s per 30 s of audio on an RTX 4090."
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   "field": "commercial_use",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
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   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "README invites artists to use outputs freely in their own works; credit 'YuE by HKUST/M-A-P' and an 'AI-generated' label are encouraged, not required."
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   "field": "licence",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Apache 2.0 adopted 2025-01-30."
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   "field": "lifecycle",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Latest README news item is LoRA finetuning support (2025-06-04)."
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  {
   "field": "likeness_cloning",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "ICL mode follows a reference vocal track; README does not frame it as voice cloning and has no consent check."
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  {
   "field": "made_by",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "README says the project is co-led by HKUST and M-A-P; no country stated."
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  {
   "field": "modalities",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Lyrics plus genre tags as text; ICL checkpoints also take about 30 s of reference audio (mix, or separate vocal and instrumental)."
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   "field": "openness",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Code and weights released under Apache 2.0; training data not released (not stated in README)."
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  {
   "field": "pricing",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
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   "field": "skill_level",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
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  {
   "field": "tasks",
   "url": "https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "Lyrics to full song with vocal and accompaniment tracks; community add-ons offer song continuation."
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   "fr": "https://plainly.guide/fr/tools/yue/"
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 "attribution": "Data from Plainly Guide (https://plainly.guide). Please credit Plainly with a link to the entry page when you use it."
}