Spotify acquired Sonantic, an artificial intelligence software

Sonantic is an artificial intelligence (AI) software that can reproduce the human voice, as well as its emotions and read texts with this voice. It was launched in 2018 by Zeena Qureshi and John Flynn, who still own it to this day.

Thanks to this software, Spotify specifically hopes to build a system of interaction with users in moments when their attention can’t be shifted to their screen.

On their respective blogs, the Spotify and Sonantic teams say this partnership will establish a really close connection with listeners by allowing them to have access to a more personalized experience. their platform.

However, no information on the concrete practical applications of this AI has been disclosed.

Sonantic is primarily used in the fields of video games and on-screen entertainment such as movies. This is also the software used in the film Top Gun: Maverick to bring back the voice of actor Val Kilmer for a short scene.

The latter has throat cancer, but wants to take over the role of Tom from the ice Kazansky, whom he appeared in the first film of the series, released in 1986.