Inspiration
I want to know what makes a great rapper.
What it does
It visualizes rhymes across adjacent lines.
How I built it
In beaker, using python for processing, and d3.js for visualization. Used nltk to translate word to phoneme (it uses cmudict). Implemented Smith-Waterman alignment algorithm (typically used in genomics) to align phonemes from adjacent lines.
Challenges I ran into
Used a heuristic phoneme similarity measure (for the alignment algorithm). Hard to make it better than the baseline (which was just exact match).
What's next for RapGraph
TTR: text to rap. Then the entire pipeline, for a rap battling robot.
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