Accordion Innovation Ltd
AI for smart podcast editing.
Accordion allows audiences to control the duration of audio or video content without losing structure, tone or feel (and with no speeding up).
Hartree Centre Cardiff Hub experts explored using AI to make smart editing decisions by cutting at the proper moments and analysing the importance of segments.
Working with Hartree has been very positive. Their expertise has uncovered vast potential for AI to help Accordion in targeted ways that will enable it to work more efficiently and scale effectively.
The final implementation used a variety of methods, including few-shot dialogue segmentation, topic and keyword modelling and emotion detection in both textual and audio modalities, which provides the basis for analysing sections and placing cuts correctly.
This company received an approximately 12-hour interaction focused on a specific business problem or technology area and a 1-3 month collaboration focused on developing and testing a specific idea.