AI Music Generation: Usage, Commercial Use & Supported Languages

AI music generation in Canva lets you create original background music using a text prompt. This article covers availability, usage rules, commercial considerations, and supported languages for AI-generated music.

Looking for step-by-step instructions? See Generate AI music, sound effects, and voiceovers in Canva.

AI-generated music can be used for commercial and personal purposes.

• You may use generated music in ads, monetized social media content (e.g. YouTube, TikTok), client work, and other commercial projects.
• You do not obtain ownership of the generated track.
• You may not sell, redistribute, or sub-license the track on a standalone basis.
• Use must comply with Canva’s AI Product Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.

Music generation works across many languages, but lyric quality can vary. Here’s the list of supported languages with high fluency:

• English
• Mandarin Chinese
• Portuguese
• Indonesian
• French
• German
• Italian
• Korean
• Punjabi
• Gujarati
• Malay
• Swahili
• Ukrainian
• Greek
• Catalan
• Czech
• Kurdish
• Croatian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Malayalam
• Slovenian
• Azerbaijani
• Estonian
• Tajik
• Icelandic

AI music generation is designed to help you create new, original tracks. When using this feature, make sure your content respects copyright, creators’ rights, and applicable laws.

To help you stay compliant with Canva’s Acceptable Use Policy, here are some important guidelines to follow when creating AI-generated audio.

• Focus on originality
  • Create new music instead of recreating existing songs
  • Construct your own lyrics and melodies
  • Describe the style you want without referencing specific tracks
• Describe styles, not artists
  • Avoid prompts that ask for music similar to a specific artist
  • Don’t mimic or replicate a real person’s voice
  • Make sure your content wouldn’t be mistaken for something made by a real artist
• Keep it appropriate
  • Avoid generating audio that includes harmful, explicit, or inappropriate content

You can still generate music in any language. However, in languages that aren’t fully supported, the lyrics may:

• Sound less natural
• Include pronunciation issues
• Contain nonsensical or “gibberish” phrases

This only affects music with vocals. Instrumental music is not impacted and will generate as expected.If you’re not getting the results you want, you can try:

• Writing your prompt in English
• Requesting instrumental music only
• Simplifying your prompt

We’re continuing to improve language support over time.