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Quantum-Enhanced Analysis and Grading of Vocal Performance

Audio and Speech Processing 2025-09-03 v1 Sound

Abstract

We present QuantumMelody, a hybrid quantum-classical method for objective singing assessment. Grouped vocal features (pitch stability, dynamics, timbre) are encoded into a small simulated quantum circuit; all nine qubits are initialized with a Hadamard on each qubit and then receive Rx, Ry, and Rz rotations, with intra- and cross-group entanglement. The circuit measurement probabilities are fused with spectrogram transformer embeddings to estimate a grade on labels 2-5 and to surface technique-level feedback. On 168 labeled 20 second excerpts, the hybrid reaches 74.29% agreement with expert graders, a +12.86 point gain over a classical-features baseline. Processing is sub-minute per recording on a laptop-class Qiskit simulator; we do not claim hardware speedups. This is a feasibility step toward interpretable, objective singing assessment in applied audio signal processing.

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@article{arxiv.2509.00106,
  title  = {Quantum-Enhanced Analysis and Grading of Vocal Performance},
  author = {Rohan Agarwal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00106},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures. Hybrid quantum - classical feasibility study; simulator - only results

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