Patent ID: 11887613
Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors, including instructions for:
extracting a vocal portion from a first audio content item that includes the vocal portion and a non-vocal portion;
determining a first representative vector that corresponds to a vocal style of the first audio content item by applying a variational autoencoder (VAE) to the extracted vocal portion of the first audio content item; and
streaming, to an electronic device, a second audio content item, selected from a plurality of audio content items, that has a second representative vector that corresponds to a vocal style of the second audio content item, wherein:
the second representative vector that corresponds the vocal style of the second audio content item meets similarity criteria with respect to the first representative vector that corresponds to the vocal style of the first audio content item.