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Rakesh Roushan
Rakesh Roushan

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Building an AI Audio Processing Pipeline with AudioPod API

The Problem

I needed to separate vocals from songs for a karaoke project. Building stem separation from scratch? Not happening.

Enter AudioPod

AudioPod's API handles:

  • Stem separation - Extract vocals, drums, bass, and other instruments
  • Text-to-music - Generate songs from descriptions
  • Speech-to-text - Accurate transcription
  • Noise reduction - Clean up recordings

Quick Example

import requests

# Separate stems from a song
response = requests.post(
    'https://api.audiopod.ai/v1/stems/separate',
    headers={'X-API-Key': 'your_key'},
    json={'audio_url': 'https://example.com/song.mp3', 'mode': 4}
)

job_id = response.json()['job_id']
# Poll for completion, download stems
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What I Built

A karaoke pipeline:

  1. Song goes in
  2. Vocals get isolated
  3. Lyrics get transcribed with timestamps
  4. Video gets rendered with bouncing ball

The vocal isolation quality surprised me — clean separation even on complex mixes.

Pricing

Free tier: 10 hours of processing. Enough to experiment.

Links


Building something with audio? I'd love to hear about it.

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