US 11,693,616 B2 · Short segment generation for user engagement in vocal capture applications

Abstract

User interface techniques provide user vocalists with mechanisms for solo audiovisual capture and for seeding subsequent performances by other users (e.g., joiners). Audiovisual capture may be against a full-length work or seed spanning much or all of a pre-existing audio (or audiovisual) work and in some cases may mix, to seed further contributions of one or more joiners, a user's captured media content for at least some portions of the audio (or audiovisual) work. A short seed or short segment may span less than all (and in some cases, much less than all) of the audio (or audiovisual) work. For example, a verse, chorus, refrain, hook or other limited “chunk” of an audio (or audiovisual) work may constitute a short seed or short segment. Computational techniques are described that allow a system to automatically identify suitable short seeds or short segments. After audiovisual capture against the short seed or short segment, a resulting, solo or group, full-length or short-form performance may be posted, livestreamed, or otherwise disseminated in a social network.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a service platform;
and
plural media capture devices communicatively coupled via respective network communication interfaces to the service platform for media capture relative to a media encoding of an audio work, the media capture devices providing respective users thereof with a user interface for selecting from amongst performance capture options that include one or more partial portions of the audio work identified to the respective media capture devices by the service platform,
wherein the service platform identifies individual ones of the partial portions based on one or more of:
(i) musical structure coded for the audio work;
(ii) a machine learning algorithm applied to backing audio, vocal audio or lyrics of or corresponding to audiovisual performances captured against the audio work;
and
(iii) crowd-sourced point- or portion-of-interest data measured for performer and/or non-performer user engagement with the audio work, and
wherein the media capture devices are configured to capture at least vocal audio of the respective users performed against audible renderings on the respective media capture devices of respectively selected partial portions of the audio work.

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Short segment generation for user engagement in vocal capture applications

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