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by phaedrus044 32 days ago
"Have you tried translating these monosyllable words (ga, ma, pa, etc) into English?"

There is a toggle on the top that goes from Swaras to Solfrege - which is the western notation for music.

There is a floating window now that shows what the mapping is between each register and the note, so that it becomes easier for folks to understand the correlation.

"I wonder what the cross over will be like when you do 'western' film and media."

All of the 405 films that you see there is Hollywood films. The list of the movies that constitute this data is listed here : http://arc.quanten.co/browse

"You might want to have a way to tie this to something that the user has already seen as an intro."

If you want to see how this breaks down, We've put out two sample content - one is Anora (which won the Oscar for Best picture last year) and in terms of TV Shows we have also mapped the Pilot episode of The Pitt (though the data used for the analysis was only films)

you can access the complete breakdown for the film and series here:

http://arc.quanten.co/showcase/film http://arc.quanten.co/showcase/series

"I'm interested in why you all wanted to do this project at all."

I used to host a filmmakers club in my open floor office for a few years and used to listen to filmmakers talking about how they make films. While I come from the software world where everything can be A/B tested and there is a beta, test, feedback, iterate, release cycle, it felt odd that films lack any of it - and it is pretty much a hit or miss. And unlike software, you don't get a chance to re-release a film. And the lack of any meaningful audience data and structure data, felt like a huge gap - one that artistic sectors like music and culinary arts have quite well bridged, but the visual story telling world hasnt. That's where the wheels started to churn - that was almost 11 years ago.