May 9, 2023
Latest Publications
We publish research papers and present our work in a wide range of venues.
Spotify Research is dedicated to extending the state of the art in audio
May 4, 2023
Improving Retrievability in Search with Query Generation
Allowing users to discover new entities such as books, music, and movies is an important goal for online platforms. This can be achieved for example by recommending entities that the user has not yet interacted with. Another way users can find new entities is by exploring the catalog with the search system.
Contrastive Learning-based Audio to Lyrics Alignment for Multiple Languages
Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, Sebastian Ewert
Minimizing change aversion through mixed methods research: a case study of redesigning Spotify’s Your Library
Ingrid Pettersson, Carl Fredriksson, Raha Dadgar, John Richardson, Lisa Shields, Duncan McKenzie
Improving Content Retrievability in Search with Controllable Query Generation
Gustavo Penha, Enrico Palumbo, Maryam Aziz, Alice Wang, and Hugues Bouchard
Research Areas
How do we create more personalized experiences? What can we learn about listeners based on how they use written language? How do we optimize testing methodologies? Explore all our research areas below.
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We’re expanding knowledge of audio technology every day, sharing open source frameworks, tools, libraries, and models for everything from research exploration to large-scale production deployment.