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Dual-encoder-based audio retrieval systems are commonly optimized with contrastive learning on a set of matching and mismatching audio-caption pairs. This leads to a shared embedding space in which corresponding items from the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Automatic music captioning, which generates natural language descriptions for given music tracks, holds significant potential for enhancing the understanding and organization of large volumes of musical data. Despite its importance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam

This work presents a text-to-audio-retrieval system based on pre-trained text and spectrogram transformers. Our method projects recordings and textual descriptions into a shared audio-caption space in which related examples from different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Paul Primus , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

This paper proposes to use similarities of audio captions for estimating audio-caption relevances to be used for training text-based audio retrieval systems. Current audio-caption datasets (e.g., Clotho) contain audio samples paired with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Recent progress in audio-language modeling, such as automated audio captioning, has benefited from training on synthetic data generated with the aid of large-language models. However, such approaches for environmental sound captioning have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Mithun Manivannan , Vignesh Nethrapalli , Mark Cartwright

With the emergence of audio-language models, constructing large-scale paired audio-language datasets has become essential yet challenging for model development, primarily due to the time-intensive and labour-heavy demands involved. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Jisheng Bai , Haohe Liu , Mou Wang , Dongyuan Shi , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Woon-Seng Gan , Jianfeng Chen

The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

We introduce JamendoMaxCaps, a large-scale music-caption dataset featuring over 362,000 freely licensed instrumental tracks from the renowned Jamendo platform. The dataset includes captions generated by a state-of-the-art captioning model,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Abhinaba Roy , Renhang Liu , Tongyu Lu , Dorien Herremans

Massive web datasets play a key role in the success of large vision-language models like CLIP and Flamingo. However, the raw web data is noisy, and existing filtering methods to reduce noise often come at the expense of data diversity. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Thao Nguyen , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Gabriel Ilharco , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt

Some datasets with the described content and order of occurrence of sounds have been released for conversion between environmental sound and text. However, there are very few texts that include information on the impressions humans feel,…

Automated audio captioning (AAC), a task that mimics human perception as well as innovatively links audio processing and natural language processing, has overseen much progress over the last few years. AAC requires recognizing contents such…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Automated audio captioning aims at generating textual descriptions for an audio clip. To evaluate the quality of generated audio captions, previous works directly adopt image captioning metrics like SPICE and CIDEr, without justifying their…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zelin Zhou , Zhiling Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

Audio captioning aims at describing the content of audio clips with human language. Due to the ambiguity of audio, different people may perceive the same audio differently, resulting in caption disparities (i.e., one audio may correlate to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiming Zhang , Hong Yu , Ruoyi Du , Zhanyu Ma , Yuan Dong

Audio captioning is a recently proposed task for automatically generating a textual description of a given audio clip. In this study, a novel deep network architecture with audio embeddings is presented to predict audio captions. Within the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ayşegül Özkaya Eren , Mustafa Sert

Machines that can represent and describe environmental soundscapes have practical potential, e.g., for audio tagging and captioning systems. Prevailing learning paradigms have been relying on parallel audio-text data, which is, however,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yanpeng Zhao , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu , Ximing Lu , Rowan Zellers , Yejin Choi

Audio-language pretraining holds promise for general-purpose audio understanding, yet remains underexplored compared to its vision counterpart. While vision-language models like CLIP serve as widely adopted foundations, existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Xuanru Zhou , Mingyue Huo , Yiwen Shao , Hao Zhang , Dong Yu

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

Singing voices contain much richer information than common voices, including varied vocal and acoustic properties. However, current open-source audio-text datasets for singing voices capture only a narrow range of attributes and lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hyunjong Ok , Jaeho Lee

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task that aims to describe an audio signal using natural language. AAC systems take as input an audio signal and output a free-form text sentence, called a caption. Evaluating such systems is not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

Generative models guided by text prompts are increasingly becoming more popular. However, no text-to-MIDI models currently exist due to the lack of a captioned MIDI dataset. This work aims to enable research that combines LLMs with symbolic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Jan Melechovsky , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans