Spotify has successfully obtained a patent for a new technology that would use recordings of the user's voice to enhance the platform's individually tailored music recommendation algorithms.
The patent, filed in February 2018 and granted on January 12, 2021, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide. The speech recognition technology, which has not yet been implemented, would be able to recognize “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” according to the patent, which you can read in its entirety here.
The tech would ascertain a user's mood and make appropriate recommendations by combining “intonation, stress, [and] rhythm," of the sampled speech pattern with aspects of the user's environment, such as "sounds from vehicles on a street,.
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