Spotify Secures Horrifying Patent to Monitor Users’ Speech

Spotify Secures Horrifying Patent to Monitor Users’ Speech

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Spotify wants to know your "emotional state, gender, age, or accent"


If you listen to Spotify, then soon enough Spotify may listen to you. Via Music Business Worldwide, the streaming platform has secured a patent to monitor the background noise and speech of its users.

The big green circle first filed a patent for its “Identification of taste attributes from an audio signal” product in February of 2018, and finally received approval on January 12th, 2021. The goals is to gauge listener’s “emotional state, gender, age, or accent,” in order to recommend new music.

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