Audio results

The following are a set of musical scores that our system generated. Each example used emotion labels from one of our three approaches: hand-labeling, crowd-labeling, and automatic labeling. Clicking an example with play it and show a visualization of the musical score. Be sure to see the video example at the bottom of the page.

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Results used in our crowd listening evaluation

• Damon and Pythias - Hand labels (Music: Alice Returns)



• Damon and Pythias - Crowd labels (Music: Alice Returns)



• Damon and Pythias - Automatic labels (Music: Alice Returns)

• Not That I Care - Hand labels (Music: 2815 A.D.)



• Not That I Care - Crowd labels (Music: 2815 A.D.)



• Not That I Care - Automatic labels (Music: 2815 A.D.)

• Roosts - Hand labels (Music: The Bathub; Highschool Lover)



• Roosts - Crowd labels (Music: The Bathub; Highschool Lover)



• Roosts - Automatic labels (Music: The Bathub; Highschool Lover)

• Goldilocks - Hand labels (Music: You Learn)



• Goldilocks - Crowd labels (Music: You Learn)



• Goldilocks - Automatic labels (Music: You Learn)

This example is a longer story. We increased the music segment duration minimum to 40 seconds and maximum to 180 seconds in the constraints in order to score the long sections without emotion changes that might appear in longer stories.

• The Story of An Hour - Crowd labels (Music: Intriguing Possibilities; You Learn)

Here are additional examples for three of the stories in our evaluation, but using different input music tracks.

• Roosts - Crowd labels (Music: Intriguing Possibilities; Alice Returns)



• Goldilocks - Crowd labels (Music: Time Machine)



• Not That I Care - Crowd labels (Music: Alice Returns; Time Machine)

Here are four addition musical scores for the Damon and Pythias story. Every music track gives the story a unique character.

• Damon and Pythias - Crowd labels (Music: 2815 A.D.)



• Damon and Pythias - Crowd labels (Music: Highschool Lover)



• Damon and Pythias - Crowd labels (Music: The Bathtub)



• Damon and Pythias - Crowd labels (Music: You Learn)

In addition to the audio results, we include a sample result for a visual children's story. Watch the video below. This uses hand labeling and two music tracks: "Time Machine" and "The Bathtub". Original YouTube link for the story.