DeepRhyme (D-Prime)
AI
lyric generation
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
8 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive results and a good writeup
From 2 comments
First, this is awesome. Great results. I have been working on exactly this for the past few weeks. I went ahead and produced a song and a lyric video from mine (I call it Lil'…
casoninabox on HNThis is great. Well done to OP! I've been considering creating something like this in the future as well. You mentioned that you used the lyrics from 50,000 rap songs. Did you…
daveytea on HN
Objections
Lyrics lack cohesive meaning and context
From 2 comments
To the uninitiated these may seem like reasonable results because to the uninitiated hip hop is just a bunch of unintelligible words strung together anyway but these lyrics don't…
jcoffland on HNSure, and most human made music is crap. That's not a diss or putting down your work, which is laudable, but the distinction GP presented I believe stands. It's very hard to…
croon on HN
Project seems to disenfranchise rap artists
From 1 comment
Rap music says something. It's hard not to read this project as just a further disenfranchisement its authors.
erikschoster on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I've been meaning to do something like this for awhile.. great that someone else finally did it. Any chance you'd open source it?
infinitone on HN
Train on other corpora or speeches
From 2 comments
I really want to drop in a Shakespeare play or two into the dataset and see what comes out. MC MacB comin for yo, Dun-king.
david-given on HNIt would be fascinating to try training it on some HRC and Trump speeches. I am doubtful most people would be able to tell the difference between generated remarks and the real…
grandalf on HN
Questions
How were the training songs filtered and from what era
From 1 comment
This is great. Well done to OP! I've been considering creating something like this in the future as well. You mentioned that you used the lyrics from 50,000 rap songs. Did you…
daveytea on HN
Why internal rhyme was not pursued
From 1 comment
This is great. Well done to OP! I've been considering creating something like this in the future as well. You mentioned that you used the lyrics from 50,000 rap songs. Did you…
daveytea on HN
Alternatives named
DeepBeat / DopeLearning rap lyric generator
From 1 comment
A rap lyrics generation algorithm with deep learning was also recently published [1] in KDD conference and it also got quite a lot of publicity in other media: see the associated…
to-mi on HN
Sony CSL constraint Markov chain lyric style matching
From 1 comment
OP and others may be interested in this approach by Sony CSL from ~2012 using constraint Markov chains for matching lyrical style with explicit rhyme constraints, including…
kastnerkyle on HN