“Speechiness” (the presence of speech, spoken or sung), energy (“a perceptual measure of intensity and powerful activity”), “instrumentalness,” valence (“the musical positiveness conveyed by a track”), “acousticness,” and liveness (“the presence of an audience in the recording”) are also specified.We’re an inclusive employer and this extends to our hiring process. Plus, to bolster the efficiency of the classification system, the technology outlined in the patent could be utilized to remove punctuation and repeat words, change uppercase text to lowercase, and more, lyrics-wise.įinally, the patent description details an “acoustic vector database” that would create classifications “based on the non-lyrics audio features within the tracks.” These vectors – which “may be generated in a variety of ways now known or future developed and the details are not provided herein” – encompass descriptors such as “danceability,” or a scale (from zero to 1.0) for how well-suited a song is for dancing. “There exists a need for a flexible, automatic method for training a system to classify music as explicit or not, based on a sample set.” “Currently, music providers rely on the determination of the music producers to label certain tracks as explicit,” continues the nearly 50-page-long breakdown. tags – based upon a collection of pre-determined keywords and phrases. The “spoken words analyzer” patent description, which spans north of 20,000 words, revolves around a digital function that would evaluate a “plurality” of tracks and then pinpoint “topics summarizing the lyrics” of the works – i.e.
Spotify’s newest lyrics-centered patent is classified on its USPTO profile as “related” to the “lyrics analyzer” patent (10770044) associated with the search option. This “spoken words analyzer” patent arrives just a few months after the Stockholm-based streaming service caught up to Apple Music by rolling out a searchable-lyrics feature.
The application was approved today, December 17th. Spotify filed an application for the patent on August 26th of this year, according to the U.S.
Spotify has officially patented a “spoken words analyzer,” which “generates tags and explicitness indicators for a set of tracks” – or, more concisely, an AI-powered function designed to analyze and classify songs based upon their lyrics and technical characteristics.
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