Recently, a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sony AI, and Sony Group introduced a new technology called MMAudio, which aims to achieve high-quality audio synthesis from videos through multi-modal joint training. The core innovation of MMAudio is its ability to generate synchronized audio using video and text inputs, thereby expanding the application scenarios for audio generation. MMAudio is designed to support generating sound effects that align with video content from either video or text inputs.

Shenzhen Riecho Technology Co., Ltd. recently issued a statement confirming that the audio portion of the audiovisual materials circulated on September 16 was cloned by the suspect using its self-developed Reecho AI voice generation model platform. The audio is derived from a live broadcast segment by Lu. The company has initiated an internal review mechanism to strengthen user identity authentication and audio generation security management to ensure the lawful and compliant use of the technology. Reecho stated that as a startup team established less than a year ago, we are committed to frontier technologies in audio and anthropomorphic artificial intelligence.