Paper ID: 2111.02216

Automatic Embedding of Stories Into Collections of Independent Media

Dylan R. Ashley, Vincent Herrmann, Zachary Friggstad, Kory W. Mathewson, Jürgen Schmidhuber

We look at how machine learning techniques that derive properties of items in a collection of independent media can be used to automatically embed stories into such collections. To do so, we use models that extract the tempo of songs to make a music playlist follow a narrative arc. Our work specifies an open-source tool that uses pre-trained neural network models to extract the global tempo of a set of raw audio files and applies these measures to create a narrative-following playlist. This tool is available at https://github.com/dylanashley/playlist-story-builder/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Submitted: Nov 3, 2021