Smart Speaker Apps
The future of content sound: Instantly access generative, copyright-safe Smart Speaker Apps for all your broadcast needs, powered by Mubert.
The problem
Smart Speaker Apps
Problem
Playlists that loop and wear thin
A smart speaker sits in a kitchen or living room for hours. A fixed set of ambient or focus tracks starts repeating within days, and users notice the loop, ask for something new, or switch to another app.
With Mubert
Mubert streams generative music in 150+ moods and themes, so a session does not replay the same track. Your app can also change intensity while the stream plays, without a restart.
Problem
Voice commands need instant music
A user says "play something calm" and expects sound right away. Downloading a file or waiting on a render leaves dead air, and the speaker feels slow compared with the voice assistant built into the device.
With Mubert
Realtime streaming runs over WebRTC with sub-second latency. For on-demand tracks, webhooks tell your backend when a file is ready, and the pre-generated library of about 12,000 tracks is filterable by mood, activity or BPM.
Problem
Licensing every household separately
A speaker app serves thousands of individual homes, each with its own account. Clearing music per user, or tracking who played what, is paperwork a product team has no time for and rights holders may question.
With Mubert
Your backend creates a customer for each end user, each with its own customer-id and access-token. Their usage counts against your license. Check the plan table on the pricing page for sub-licensing and monetized content.
Apps
By the numbers
Paid in 2024 for music at live events and in hotels, restaurants and shops
Damages publishers sought from Peloton over songs used without licenses in its classes
Damages publishers sought from Roblox over unlicensed music in user-made games
Smart Speaker Apps
How it fits your product
Smart speaker audio plays in a living room or bedroom with no screen, so the music has to stay out of the way of the voice. Pick slow tempos, soft pads, piano or light plucked strings, and avoid sharp transients and busy percussion. Skills for sleep, focus or cooking need long runs that loop without an audible seam, so choose steady, low-contrast textures.
For an always-on skill like sleep sounds or a kitchen timer, use the realtime stream and pick a mood that matches the skill. Your backend creates a customer for each user and passes the customer-id and access-token to the device session, so usage counts against your license. For short voice responses, call the track endpoint for a 15-second sting, or pull from the library.
With the Mubert API
Mode
Stream
Length
Endless
Tempo
60-75 BPM
Mood
Calm, warm, unobtrusive
Example prompt
Calm ambient soundscape, soft piano and warm pads, slow tempo, for a smart speaker sleep skill
More prompts to try
Warm acoustic guitar and light shaker, upbeat morning routine music for a smart speaker
Soft lo-fi beat with mellow keys, relaxed pace, background for a cooking skill
Gentle rain-like ambient pads with low drone, slow and steady, for a meditation voice app
Features
What you get
200+ Music Channels
Predefined channels for different app use cases
Enterprise Scalability
Supports high-volume usage, generate millions of tracks
Dataset-Compliant Generation
Built on verified proprietary legal datasets, safe to use anywhere
FAQ
Smart Speaker Apps
What kind of music works for a smart speaker app?
Music that sits quietly behind spoken responses works best: slow to mid tempos, soft pads, piano or acoustic guitar, and little percussion. Mubert offers 200+ music channels for different app use cases, and you can generate tracks from text, BPM, genre and mood to match a specific skill.
How do I give each smart speaker user their own music session?
Your backend creates a customer in the Mubert API for each of your users and receives a customer-id and access-token for that person. The token authorizes their stream or track requests, and their usage counts against your license. Webhooks notify your backend when a requested track is ready.
More use cases
Pricing
Transparent & Flexible
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