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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

The goal of real-time lyrics alignment is to take live singing audio as input and to pinpoint the exact position within given lyrics on the fly. The task can benefit real-world applications such as the automatic subtitling of live concerts…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jiyun Park , Sangeon Yong , Taegyun Kwon , Juhan Nam

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

Despite the recent increase in research on artificial intelligence for music, prominent correlations between key components of lyrics and rhythm such as keywords, stressed syllables, and strong beats are not frequently studied. This is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Callie C. Liao , Duoduo Liao , Jesse Guessford

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

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

Time-aligned lyrics can enrich the music listening experience by enabling karaoke, text-based song retrieval and intra-song navigation, and other applications. Compared to text-to-speech alignment, lyrics alignment remains highly…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Daniel Stoller , Simon Durand , Sebastian Ewert

In recent years, the use of large language models (LLMs) to generate music content, particularly lyrics, has gained in popularity. These advances provide valuable tools for artists and enhance their creative processes, but they also raise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yanis Labrak , Markus Frohmann , Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal , Elena V. Epure

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

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

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 pitch tracking has been extensively studied in the speech research community. The goal of this paper is to investigate how these techniques should be adapted to singing voice analysis, and to provide a comparative evaluation…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Onur Babacan , Thomas Drugman , Nicolas d'Alessandro , Nathalie Henrich , Thierry Dutoit

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

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

One of the key points in music recommendation is authoring engaging playlists according to sentiment and emotions. While previous works were mostly based on audio for music discovery and playlists generation, we take advantage of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Loreto Parisi , Simone Francia , Silvio Olivastri , Maria Stella Tavella

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Sungkyun Chang , Kyogu Lee

In this paper, we present a machine-learning approach to pitch correction for voice in a karaoke setting, where the vocals and accompaniment are on separate tracks and time-aligned. The network takes as input the time-frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sanna Wager , Lijiang Guo , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

There has recently been a sharp increase in interest in Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC). Despite this, musical components such as time signatures have not been studied sufficiently to form an algorithmic determination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Callie C. Liao , Duoduo Liao , Jesse Guessford

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

Lyrics alignment gained considerable attention in recent years. State-of-the-art systems either re-use established speech recognition toolkits, or design end-to-end solutions involving a Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Simon Durand , Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert
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