Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab have developed a new text-to-audio model called EzAudio. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, EzAudio can generate high-quality sound effects from text descriptions. The model uses an innovative method for processing audio data and a new architecture called EzAudio-DiT. In tests, EzAudio outperformed existing open-source models in terms of quality and efficiency. In the future, the technology could be used in areas such as entertainment, accessibility, and virtual assistants. The source code and datasets have been made publicly available to enable further research.