Spotify granted patent that could monitor users’ speech to make music recommendations
nme.comSpotify has secured a patent which would allow it to use technology in order to monitor users’ speech and collect data so as to customise music recommendations.As Music Business Worldwide reports, the patent was approved earlier this month on January 12, after the streaming giant filed for it back in 2018.In its application, which you can read here, Spotify say the technology would work by retrieving audio, including voice signals and background noise, to understand “content metadata” about users such as their emotional state, gender, age and accents.The patent goes on to say that the platform would rely on information such as “intonation, stress, rhythm and the likes of units of speech” to determine if a user is feeling “happy, angry, sad.
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