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Lyrics generation presents unique challenges, particularly in achieving precise syllable control while adhering to song form structures such as verses and choruses. Conventional line-by-line approaches often lead to unnatural phrasing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunkee Chae , Eunsik Shin , Suntae Hwang , Seungryeol Paik , Kyogu Lee

Lyric-to-melody generation is a highly challenging task in the field of AI music generation. Due to the difficulty of learning strict yet weak correlations between lyrics and melodies, previous methods have suffered from weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Li Chai , Donglin Wang

Background music affects lyrics intelligibility of singing vocals in a music piece. Automatic lyrics alignment and transcription in polyphonic music are challenging tasks because the singing vocals are corrupted by the background music. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li

The speech-to-singing (STS) voice conversion task aims to generate singing samples corresponding to speech recordings while facing a major challenge: the alignment between the target (singing) pitch contour and the source (speech) content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Ruiqi Li , Rongjie Huang , Lichao Zhang , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao

Automatic lyrics to polyphonic audio alignment is a challenging task not only because the vocals are corrupted by background music, but also there is a lack of annotated polyphonic corpus for effective acoustic modeling. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li

Large language models have achieved significant success in various domains, yet their understanding of lyric-centric knowledge has not been fully explored. In this work, we first introduce PlaylistSense, a dataset to evaluate the playlist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiani Guo , Jiajia Li , Jie Wu , Zuchao Li , Yujiu Yang , Ping Wang

In this work, we address the challenge of lyrics alignment, which involves aligning the lyrics and vocal components of songs. This problem requires the alignment of two distinct modalities, namely text and audio. To overcome this challenge,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Minsung Kang , Soochul Park , Keunwoo Choi

Melody generation from lyrics has been a challenging research issue in the field of artificial intelligence and music, which enables to learn and discover latent relationship between interesting lyrics and accompanying melody.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yi Yu , Abhishek Srivastava , Simon Canales

Lyric-to-melody generation is an important task in songwriting, and is also quite challenging due to its unique characteristics: the generated melodies should not only follow good musical patterns, but also align with features in lyrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ang Lv , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Text-to-song (TTSong) is a music generation task that synthesizes accompanied singing voices. Current TTSong methods, inherited from singing voice synthesis (SVS), require melody-related information that can sometimes be impractical, such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Yongqi Wang , Lichao Zhang , Rongjie Huang , Siqi Zheng , Zhou Zhao

In this paper, we study a novel task that learns to compose music from natural language. Given the lyrics as input, we propose a melody composition model that generates lyrics-conditional melody as well as the exact alignment between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Hangbo Bao , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Lei Cui , Yu Wu , Chuanqi Tan , Songhao Piao , Ming Zhou

Lyrics alignment in long music recordings can be memory exhaustive when performed in a single pass. In this study, we present a novel method that performs audio-to-lyrics alignment with a low memory consumption footprint regardless of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlbäck , Simon Dixon

Machine learning is challenging the way we make music. Although research in deep generative models has dramatically improved the capability and fluency of music models, recent work has shown that it can be challenging for humans to partner…

Automatic melody-to-lyric (M2L) generation aims to create lyrics that align with a given melody. While most previous approaches generate lyrics from scratch, revision, editing plain text draft to fit it into the melody, offers a much more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Songyan Zhao , Bingxuan Li , Yufei Tian , Nanyun Peng

The connection between music and lyrics is far beyond semantic bonds. Conceptual pairs in the two modalities such as rhythm and rhyme, note duration and syllabic stress, and structure correspondence, raise a compelling yet seldom-explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Changhong Wang , Michel Olvera , Gaël Richard

While end-to-end lyrics-to-song models offer convenience for casual users, professional songwriters require score-to-song systems that allow them to retain authorship over the core melody. However, existing score-to-song methods are limited…

We contribute a pop-song automation framework for lead melody generation and accompaniment arrangement. The framework reflects the major procedures of human music composition, generating both lead melody and piano accompaniment by a unified…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Ziyu Wang , Gus Xia

Word alignment, which aims to align translationally equivalent words between source and target sentences, plays an important role in many natural language processing tasks. Current unsupervised neural alignment methods focus on inducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Chi Chen , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

The use of language models for generating lyrics and poetry has received an increased interest in the last few years. They pose a unique challenge relative to standard natural language problems, as their ultimate purpose is reative, notions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Pablo Samuel Castro , Maria Attarian

Recently, program synthesis driven by large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly popular. However, program synthesis for machine learning (ML) tasks still poses significant challenges. This paper explores a novel form of program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jinglue Xu , Jialong Li , Zhen Liu , Nagar Anthel Venkatesh Suryanarayanan , Guoyuan Zhou , Jia Guo , Hitoshi Iba , Kenji Tei