Jingle Buddy

Jingle Buddy makes music that sings your words, at the length you asked for. Describe a track and get finished audio back: a song or an instrumental bed, an advertiser's jingle with the phone number sung in it, or a station's imaging cut to the slot.

How it works

1. Say what it is, or paste the words. A sentence is enough: what it is for, how it should feel, who is singing. Or paste your own lyric and those exact words are sung. Advertiser jingles and station imaging use a form instead of a sentence, because those get checked against a list afterwards.
2. Pick the length. Anywhere from :10 up to your plan's longest track, or one of the broadcast lengths when it has to fit a log. The cost is shown before you press.
3. Audition takes and keep one. Ask for several alternates of one piece and they arrive together under one title.

Three ways in

What you send decides what you get:

• A description. The words are written for you before anything renders.
• Your own lyric. Those exact words are sung. Section markers such as [verse] and [chorus] shape the arrangement.
• An instrumental request. Nothing is sung at all.

Built for broadcast

Written to length, not cut short. A :30 is written to its own word budget rather than trimmed from a :60. A :30 holds about 51 sung words, and every digit of a phone number counts as one.

The must-say list is checked. An advertiser's business name, phone number, offer and call to action are checked against the finished words before anything renders. A draft that dropped the phone number goes back to be rewritten, with the omission named, before it ever reaches you.

It tells you when a brief will not fit. A toll-free number is 11 sung words. If a brief cannot fit at :15, the form says so before any rendering is spent, and offers the length that holds it.

The frequency, every time. A station's dial position is matched as digits, so a line sung "one oh one point five" satisfies a profile that says 101.5.

Imaging packages. One musical bed is timed to the six slots that cover a broadcast day, so every piece in the package sounds like the same station.

Working with a track

• Stems. On every paid plan, separate vocals, drums, bass and the rest, so a voice can read over the same bed or a video can take the instrumental.
• Extend. Lengthen a finished track. You are billed only for the seconds added.
• Cover. Restyle a track you own in another genre, keeping the words and the shape: one lyric as country, pop and rock is three finished tracks.
• Personas. Save the style that got you a sound you liked (tags, tempo, key and production notes) and reuse it.
• Make it again. Every take keeps the seed, the brief that was sent and the model that rendered it, so an approved take can be reproduced next month.
• Lyric drafts. Drafts wait in a library until you send one to the studio. A finished track keeps the words it was sung from even if you later delete the draft.

What it will not do

• Clone a singer. A persona is a saved style recipe, not a likeness of anyone's voice.
• Master your audio. You get a finished mix at the length you asked for, and your processing chain is still yours.
• Clear music you did not make there. The licence covers what Jingle Buddy rendered for you and nothing else.
• Render shorter than :10. Ten seconds is the floor, so a :05 stinger is not something it makes today.

Rights

Commercial use is included on every plan, the free one included, and that covers advertising you bill a client for. There is no plan where what you rendered is yours to hear but not to air.

Billing

Jingle Buddy bills by the second of finished audio, never by the song, on one rate card. Current plans and prices are on the pricing page.

• The allowance is a ceiling, not a meter. When it is spent, rendering stops and you are asked to move up a plan. There is no overage charge.
• Writing words is a flat charge. A lyric draft costs 5 seconds of allowance however long it is, and makes no audio.
• Seats and simultaneous renders come with the plan.

Good to know

The music engine sleeps when nobody is using it. The first render after a quiet spell can spend 30 to 90 seconds waking it up. The screen shows Queued while that happens and Rendering once it starts.

For developers

The public API is included on the Station plan and above. It is documented on the developer page, with the full contract published as OpenAPI.