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Detailed captions that accurately reflect the characteristics of a music piece can enrich music databases and drive forward research in music AI. This paper introduces a multi-task music captioning model, SonicVerse, that integrates caption…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Anuradha Chopra , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

While automated audio captioning (AAC) has made notable progress, traditional fully supervised AAC models still face two critical challenges: the need for expensive audio-text pair data for training and performance degradation when…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiquan Li , Wenxi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Xuenan Xu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhisheng Zheng , Qiuqiang Kong , Xie Chen

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 to use natural language to describe the content of audio data. This paper presents an audio captioning system with an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder predicts words based on audio features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Xinhao Mei , Qiushi Huang , Xubo Liu , Gengyun Chen , Jingqian Wu , Yusong Wu , Jinzheng Zhao , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Xi Shao , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

We present the first approach to automated audio captioning. We employ an encoder-decoder scheme with an alignment model in between. The input to the encoder is a sequence of log mel-band energies calculated from an audio file, while the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Konstantinos Drossos , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

In recent years, advancements in representation learning and language models have propelled Automated Captioning (AC) to new heights, enabling the generation of human-level descriptions. Leveraging these advancements, we propose AVCap, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Jongsuk Kim , Jiwon Shin , Junmo Kim

Instruction-based speech processing is becoming popular. Studies show that training with multiple tasks boosts performance, but collecting diverse, large-scale tasks and datasets is expensive. Thus, it is highly desirable to design a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chien-yu Huang , Min-Han Shih , Ke-Han Lu , Chi-Yuan Hsiao , Hung-yi Lee

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown immense potential in multimodal applications, yet the convergence of textual and musical domains remains not well-explored. To address this gap, we present MusiLingo, a novel system for music caption…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Zihao Deng , Yinghao Ma , Yudong Liu , Rongchen Guo , Ge Zhang , Wenhu Chen , Wenhao Huang , Emmanouil Benetos

Music generation aims to create music segments that align with human aesthetics based on diverse conditional information. Despite advancements in generating music from specific textual descriptions (e.g., style, genre, instruments), the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiahao Song , Yuzhao Wang

We present RECAP (REtrieval-Augmented Audio CAPtioning), a novel and effective audio captioning system that generates captions conditioned on an input audio and other captions similar to the audio retrieved from a datastore. Additionally,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

Zero-shot audio captioning aims at automatically generating descriptive textual captions for audio content without prior training for this task. Different from speech recognition which translates audio content that contains spoken language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Leonard Salewski , Stefan Fauth , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

Audio captioning is the task of automatically creating a textual description for the contents of a general audio signal. Typical audio captioning methods rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), where the target of the DNN is to map the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Khoa Nguyen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Recent focus in video captioning has been on designing architectures that can consume both video and text modalities, and using large-scale video datasets with text transcripts for pre-training, such as HowTo100M. Though these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yuhan Shen , Linjie Yang , Longyin Wen , Haichao Yu , Ehsan Elhamifar , Heng Wang

Multimodal large language models have fueled progress in image captioning. These models, fine-tuned on vast image datasets, exhibit a deep understanding of semantic concepts. In this work, we show that this ability can be re-purposed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Hugo Malard , Michel Olvera , Stéphane Lathuiliere , Slim Essid

The advancement of audio-language (AL) multimodal learning tasks has been significant in recent years. However, researchers face challenges due to the costly and time-consuming collection process of existing audio-language datasets, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Xinhao Mei , Chutong Meng , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Tom Ko , Chengqi Zhao , Mark D. Plumbley , Yuexian Zou , Wenwu Wang

Automated audio captioning (AAC) aims at generating summarizing descriptions for audio clips. Multitudinous concepts are described in an audio caption, ranging from local information such as sound events to global information like acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Zeyu Xie , Kai Yu

Retrieval-augmented generation can improve audio captioning by incorporating relevant audio-text pairs from a knowledge base. Existing methods typically rely solely on the input audio as a unimodal retrieval query. In contrast, we propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Choi Changin , Lim Sungjun , Rhee Wonjong

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

Recent literature uses language to build foundation models for audio. These Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are trained on a vast number of audio-text pairs and show remarkable performance in tasks including Text-to-Audio Retrieval,…