Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) is China’s leading online music and audio entertainment company, publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol TME and majority-owned by Tencent Holdings. Headquartered in Shenzhen, it operates four major platforms—QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music, and WeSing—which together exceed 800 million monthly active users. TME offers streaming music, online karaoke, live music, and other interactive audio-visual entertainment, integrating social features and copyright-protected content across a vast licensed catalog. The company also supports independent artists through the Tencent Musician platform, providing distribution, promotion, rights management, monetization, and training. In addition to consumer services, TME develops industry tools such as Lyra Lab’s AI-driven technologies, including music recognition, predictive analytics, and virtual media creation.
Tencent Music Entertainment’s Lyra Lab (lyracobar.y.qq.com) hosts an online platform providing open datasets and research tools for music recognition and analysis technologies. Its core offerings include LyraC-Net for cover song recognition, singer timbre identification, and humming-based music search, many of which have achieved state-of-the-art results in conferences like Interspeech 2022 and IJCN 2021. The site distributes multiple datasets collected from QQ Music’s licensed library and authorized user recordings: Lyra-SA (singing voice dataset with isolated vocals, MIDI, and lyrics), Lyra-CS (cover song dataset with original and cover/live fragments across languages and genres), and Lyra-QBH (query-by-humming dataset with recordings from male and female users covering 100 tracks). These resources are designed for academic and professional use, with applications in audio fingerprinting, music retrieval, and singing evaluation. The platform serves as a hub for researchers to download datasets after applying through its bilingual Chinese/English interface.
Tencent Music Entertainment’s Lyra Lab has become a major R&D hub for AI-driven virtual human technologies, working closely with Tencent’s Hunyuan Video Model team. On May 28, 2025, they jointly released and open-sourced HunyuanVideo-Avatar, a speech-driven digital human generation model that can produce high-fidelity talking or singing videos from just a single image and an audio file. Built on the HunyuanVideo large video model and Lyra Lab’s MuseV framework, it supports multiple camera framings (head-and-shoulders, half-body, full-body), various visual styles, emotional control, and multi-character dialogues. MuseV, along with related open-source tools MuseTalk (real-time lip-sync) and MusePose (pose-guided animation), enables unlimited-length, high-quality virtual human video generation. Lyra Lab has also developed music-driven virtual human systems such as Music XR Maker and the “QinLe” large model in collaboration with Tencent AI Lab, capable of generating singing performances, dance animations, and instrument gestures. Since 2022, the lab has debuted original virtual humans like “Xiao Qin” and “Xiao Tian,” applied its motion-driven photo animation technology in QQ Music projects, and integrated its solutions into TME’s entertainment platforms, making it a leader in music-powered digital human applications in China.