Musicologist is an Android app using Algolia to give music advice through conversation.

Presentation on Algolia's forum

Demo

Features

• Search for songs by artist or theme
• Voice input, voice output
• Rich search results UI

Examples

• Do you know songs by the rollin stun?

• Any music released by Eminim?

• Do you know anything about love?

• Did you hear songs by Zeppelin?

• What do you know on California?

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Getting started

• Git clone or download the code
• Run cd android && ./gradlew installDebug to install the app on a connected device/emulator

Architecture

• Mobile frontend in /android
  • Speech to text using a SpeechRecognizer
  • Results displayed with InstantSearch Android
  • Text to speech using the TTS Engine
• API.AI agent for NLU
• A backend connecting the agent to Algolia