Sony AI and AudioKinetic enable audio-to-audio and text-to-audio search for devs

Sony AI and Audiokinetic, a provider of cross-platform interactive audio solutions, announced a collaboration to launch a groundbreaking AI-powered audio-to-audio and text-to-audio search capability – the first of its kind to be available within a professional audio production tool, and specifically designed for sound effects.

Developed jointly by Sony AI and Audiokinetic, the new feature, known as Similar Sound
Search, will be available in an upcoming beta release of Wwise, Audiokinetic’s flagship audio middleware solution for cross-platform interactive and spatial audio development.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.