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Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Speech enhancement has seen great improvement in recent years using end-to-end neural networks. However, most models are agnostic to the spoken phonetic content. Recently, several studies suggested phonetic-aware speech enhancement, mostly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Or Tal , Moshe Mandel , Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi

Multilingual automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) is a challenging task due to the limited availability of labelled data and the challenges introduced by singing, compared to multilingual automatic speech recognition. Although some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Jiawen Huang , Emmanouil Benetos

Music captioning has gained significant attention in the wake of the rising prominence of streaming media platforms. Traditional approaches often prioritize either the audio or lyrics aspect of the music, inadvertently ignoring the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihao He , Weituo Hao , Wei-Tsung Lu , Changyou Chen , Kristina Lerman , Xuchen Song

Automatic song writing is a topic of significant practical interest. However, its research is largely hindered by the lack of training data due to copyright concerns and challenged by its creative nature. Most noticeably, prior works often…

We present a deep learning based methodology for extracting the singing voice signal from a musical mixture based on the underlying linguistic content. Our model follows an encoder decoder architecture and takes as input the magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Automatic Lyrics Transcription (ALT) aims to recognize lyrics from singing voices, similar to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for spoken language, but faces added complexity due to domain-specific properties of the singing voice. While…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Jiawen Huang , Felipe Sousa , Emir Demirel , Emmanouil Benetos , Igor Gadelha

Automatic Singing Assessment and Singing Information Processing have evolved over the past three decades to support singing pedagogy, performance analysis, and vocal training. While the first approach objectively evaluates a singer's…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Arthur N. dos Santos , Bruno S. Masiero

Audio-to-lyrics alignment has become an increasingly active research task in MIR, supported by the emergence of several open-source datasets of audio recordings with word-level lyrics annotations. However, there are still a number of open…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Charles Brazier , Gerhard Widmer

We study the problem of semi-supervised singing voice separation, in which the training data contains a set of samples of mixed music (singing and instrumental) and an unmatched set of instrumental music. Our solution employs a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Michael Michelashvili , Sagie Benaim , Lior Wolf

Voice enhancement and voice coding are imperative and important functions in a voice-communication system. However, both functions are commonly treated independently, even though both utilize similar features of the underlying signals. Our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Phani Kumar Nyshadham , D R Shivakumar , Peter Kroon , Shmulik Markovich-Golan

In this work we present a method for unsupervised learning of audio representations, focused on the task of singing voice separation. We build upon a previously proposed method for learning representations of time-domain music signals with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

Singing voice conversion is to convert a singer's voice to another one's voice without changing singing content. Recent work shows that unsupervised singing voice conversion can be achieved with an autoencoder-based approach [1]. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chengqi Deng , Chengzhu Yu , Heng Lu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

Spoken content processing (such as retrieval and browsing) is maturing, but the singing content is still almost completely left out. Songs are human voice carrying plenty of semantic information just as speech, and may be considered as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Che-Ping Tsai , Yi-Lin Tuan , Lin-shan Lee

This paper presents a novel method for extracting the vocal track from a musical mixture. The musical mixture consists of a singing voice and a backing track which may comprise of various instruments. We use a convolutional network with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

We introduce UNMIXX, a novel framework for multiple singing voices separation (MSVS). While related to speech separation, MSVS faces unique challenges: data scarcity and the highly correlated nature of singing voices mixture. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jihoo Jung , Ji-Hoon Kim , Doyeop Kwak , Junwon Lee , Juhan Nam , Joon Son Chung

With the rapid development of neural network architectures and speech processing models, singing voice synthesis with neural networks is becoming the cutting-edge technique of digital music production. In this work, in order to explore how…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Dengfeng Ke , Yuxing Lu , Xudong Liu , Yanyan Xu , Jing Sun , Cheng-Hao Cai

In this work, we present a method for learning interpretable music signal representations directly from waveform signals. Our method can be trained using unsupervised objectives and relies on the denoising auto-encoder model that uses a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Stylianos I. Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

Lyric interpretations can help people understand songs and their lyrics quickly, and can also make it easier to manage, retrieve and discover songs efficiently from the growing mass of music archives. In this paper we propose BART-fusion, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yixiao Zhang , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia , Simon Dixon