Deezer trained the AI using raw audio signals, linguistic context reconstruction models and a Million Song Dataset that aggregates Last.fm tags describing tunes (such as “calm” or “sad”). The researchers mapped the MSD to Deezer’s library using song metadata, extracting individual words from the lyrics in the process. The result was an 18,644-song database the …
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