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Audio-to-score alignment is an important pre-processing step for in-depth analysis of classical music. In this paper, we apply novel transposition-invariant audio features to this task. These low-dimensional features represent local pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Andreas Arzt , Stefan Lattner

This paper offers a precise, formal definition of an audio-to-score alignment. While the concept of an alignment is intuitively grasped, this precision affords us new insight into the evaluation of audio-to-score alignment algorithms.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 John Thickstun , Jennifer Brennan , Harsh Verma

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

Lyric-to-melody generation aims to automatically create melodies based on given lyrics, requiring the capture of complex and subtle correlations between them. However, previous works usually suffer from two main challenges: 1) lyric-melody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Jiaxing Yu , Xinda Wu , Yunfei Xu , Tieyao Zhang , Songruoyao Wu , Le Ma , Kejun Zhang

This paper discusses real-time alignment of audio signals of music performance to the corresponding score (a.k.a. score following) which can handle tempo changes, errors and arbitrary repeats and/or skips (repeats/skips) in performances.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tomohiko Nakamura , Eita Nakamura , Shigeki Sagayama

We investigate unsupervised learning of correspondences between sound events and textual phrases through aligning audio clips with textual captions describing the content of a whole audio clip. We align originally unaligned and unannotated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper proposes a novel label-synchronous speech-to-text alignment technique for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The speech-to-text alignment is a problem of splitting long audio recordings with un-aligned transcripts into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yusuke Kida , Tatsuya Komatsu , Masahito Togami

Speech recognition is a well developed research field so that the current state of the art systems are being used in many applications in the software industry, yet as by today, there still does not exist such robust system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlback , Simon Dixon

In this paper, we propose a method of utilizing aligned lyrics as additional information to improve the performance of singing voice separation. We have combined the highway network-based lyrics encoder into Open-unmix separation network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Chang-Bin Jeon , Hyeong-Seok Choi , Kyogu Lee

Audio-to-score alignment (A2SA) is a multimodal task consisting in the alignment of audio signals to music scores. Recent literature confirms the benefits of Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) for A2SA at the frame-level. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Modern neural networks have greatly improved performance across speech recognition benchmarks. However, gains are often driven by frequent words with limited semantic weight, which can obscure meaningful differences in word error rate, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Havtorn , Christian Igel , Lars Maaløe , Zheng-Hua Tan

The problem of audio-to-text alignment has seen significant amount of research using complete supervision during training. However, this is typically not in the context of long audio recordings wherein the text being queried does not appear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Piyush Singh Pasi , Karthikeya Battepati , Preethi Jyothi , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Tanmay Mahapatra , Manoj Singh

State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class. These embeddings are usually generated by neural networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 James Taylor , Wolfgang Mack

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

We approach the singing phrase audio to score matching problem by using phonetic and duration information - with a focus on studying the jingju a cappella singing case. We argue that, due to the existence of a basic melodic contour for each…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Rong Gong , Jordi Pons , Xavier Serra

We study cross-modal recommendation of music tracks to be used as soundtracks for videos. This problem is known as the music supervision task. We build on a self-supervised system that learns a content association between music and video.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Laure Prétet , Gaël Richard , Clément Souchier , Geoffroy Peeters

Despite progress in melody-to-lyric generation, a substantial singability gap remains between machine-generated lyrics and those written by human lyricists. In this work, we aim to narrow this gap by jointly learning both wording and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Longshen Ou , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang

The tasks of automatic lyrics transcription and lyrics alignment have witnessed significant performance improvements in the past few years. However, most of the previous works only focus on English in which large-scale datasets are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Jun-You Wang , Chon-In Leong , Yu-Chen Lin , Li Su , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

The quantity of processed data is crucial for advancing the field of singing voice synthesis. While there are tools available for lyric or note transcription tasks, they all need pre-processed data which is relatively time-consuming (e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Siwei Wu , Jinzheng He , Ruibin Yuan , Haojie Wei , Xipin Wei , Chenghua Lin , Jin Xu , Junyang Lin

Writing down lyrics for human consumption involves not only accurately capturing word sequences, but also incorporating punctuation and formatting for clarity and to convey contextual information. This includes song structure, emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Ondřej Cífka , Hendrik Schreiber , Luke Miner , Fabian-Robert Stöter