AI is set to improve the quality of Spotify recommendations

Spotify has a tool capable of analysing the content of audiobooks played on the platform. — AFP Relaxnews

The music streaming platform Spotify is seeking to develop the use of artificial intelligence across its various services. Thanks to Google Cloud’s large-scale language models, Spotify intends to enhance the user experience by proposing content discovery through personalised recommendations spanning its entire audio offer, including podcasts and audiobooks.

The aim is for these algorithms to analyse all the metadata of this content, from the title to the artist or author’s name, not forgetting the ratings and other details appearing in the search results. Similarly, certain sensitive content can be excluded from certain profiles. In the case of podcasts and audiobooks, the AI even analyses all spoken content. The aim is to make the recommendation process even faster and more efficient than it is today.