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Spotify's Podcast Search Explained

James Briggs via YouTube

Overview

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This course explains how Spotify-style natural-language podcast search works and guides learners through implementing a similar semantic retrieval system. It covers data preparation, query generation, sentence-transformer fine-tuning, vector indexing, scalability, and recall-based evaluation.

Syllabus

Intro
NLP in Semantic Search
Why Now?
Transformer Models
Sentence Transformers
Vector Search
How Spotify Built Podcast Search
Data Source, Fine-tuning, and Eval
Code Implementation, Dataset
Data Preparation
Query Generation
Fine-tuning a Podcast Model
Evaluation
Does it Scale?
Sharing Your Work

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James Briggs

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