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Show HN: AI audio embeddings - Discover 100M+ iTunes songs with language models
We’re a group of electronic music artists and PhD researchers working in AI music.
We've been working on a project to help us discover new music in a more objective way. It's called Speak Music:
https://speakmusic.sonophase.com/ https://speakmusic.sonophase.com/
We’ve trained an AI model to understand the correspondence between music and language. The model combines a machine listening and audio signal processing with transformers for text embeddings. Once trained, we index a huge catalogue of unseen audio, ensuring that the search system can efficiently scale to millions of tracks.
At the moment, our model is optimised for our preferred music; electronic, techno, ambient, dub and relaxing etc. We’re currently fine-tuning to handle all kinds of genres and moods.
Our model enables two types of discovery: (a) natural language search and (b) similarity search.
(a) Speak: search for music using freeform natural language prompts. Describe the mood, aesthetic, texture, setting and context of a track.
(b) Music: discover tracks that are acoustically similar to ANY reference track from Apple Music.
We recently presented at Sonar+D in Barcelona.
We hope you like it. Let us know what you think!
- Anil1331 3y agoLooks great, what is your tech stack for building this ?
- mutedsound 3y agofrontend was created with Vue.js AI training, audio processing and NLP with PyTorch got a custom implementation based around HNSW graphs for maintaining the embeddings and scalable search
- okinawamist 3y agoloving the results for ambient and electronic music. The similarity feature is super cool! Seems like the system can get confused by certain terms, "Erhu" for example. I can kind of hear how it's making a decision to get items "close" to "Erhu" if it understands words that are similar.
- ejtripp 3y agotimbre based searches like "racecar" or "rainstorm" yield very interesting results