Contextualized Recommendations Through Personalized Narratives using LLMs
December 18, 2024 4:59 pmGenerative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), offers new opportunities to connect listeners...
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PODTILE: Facilitating Podcast Episode Browsing with Auto-generated Chapters
October 24, 2024 10:30 amListeners often find it challenging to navigate long podcast episodes due to their long duration...
Graph Learning for Exploratory Query Suggestions in an Instant Search System
October 25, 2023 10:56 amSpotify’s search system plays a vital role in helping users explore the catalog and discover new content.
LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music
October 13, 2023 10:49 amEvery day, music is enjoyed, created, and discovered by billions of people around the globe – and yet, existing AI systems largely struggle to model the nuances that make music different from other forms of audio.
Audio-based Machine Learning Model for Podcast Language Identification
August 18, 2023 10:27 amExisting spoken Language Identification (SLI) solutions focus on detecting languages from short audio clips. Podcast audio, on the other hand, poses peculiar challenges...
Improving Retrievability in Search with Query Generation
May 4, 2023 9:53 amAllowing 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.
Unsupervised Speaker Diarization using Sparse Optimization
September 29, 2022 11:08 amWhat is Speaker Diarization? Speaker diarization is the process of logging the timestamps of when various speakers take turns to talk...
The Contribution of Lyrics and Acoustics to Collaborative Understanding of Mood
July 19, 2022 2:49 pmSong lyrics make an important contribution to the musical experience, providing us with rich stories and messages that artists want... View Article
Researching how less-streamed podcasts can reach their potential
January 25, 2022 11:11 amOne question we spend a lot of time thinking about at Spotify is how to help creators build larger audiences,... View Article
Podcast Language and Engagement
August 3, 2021 10:59 amWhat makes a particular podcast broadly engaging? As a media form, podcasting is new enough that such questions are only... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to SIGIR 2021
July 13, 2021 9:54 amThe 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021) starts this week, and Spotify... View Article