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Lyrics translation requires both accurate semantic transfer and preservation of musical rhythm, syllabic structure, and poetic style. In animated musicals, the challenge intensifies due to alignment with visual and auditory cues. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Woohyun Cho , Youngmin Kim , Sunghyun Lee , Youngjae Yu

Automatic evaluation of ST systems is typically performed by comparing translation hypotheses with one or more reference translations. While effective to some extent, this approach inherits the limitation of reference-based evaluation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mauro Cettolo , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Sara Papi , Luisa Bentivogli

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which directly translates the source language speech to the target language text, has attracted intensive attention recently. However, the combination of speech recognition and machine translation in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Qianqian Dong , Mingxuan Wang , Hao Zhou , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu , Lei Li

Automatic song writing aims to compose a song (lyric and/or melody) by machine, which is an interesting topic in both academia and industry. In automatic song writing, lyric-to-melody generation and melody-to-lyric generation are two…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhonghao Sheng , Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Tao Qin

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

Lyrics transcription of polyphonic music is challenging because singing vocals are corrupted by the background music. To improve the robustness of lyrics transcription to the background music, we propose a strategy of combining the features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Xiaoxue Gao , Chitralekha Gupta , Haizhou Li

Automatic music transcription (AMT) is the problem of analyzing an audio recording of a musical piece and detecting notes that are being played. AMT is a challenging problem, particularly when it comes to polyphonic music. The goal of AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yohannis Telila , Tommaso Cucinotta , Davide Bacciu

Song generation is regarded as the most challenging problem in music AIGC; nonetheless, existing approaches have yet to fully overcome four persistent limitations: controllability, generalizability, perceptual quality, and duration. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tongxi Wang , Yang Yu , Qing Wang , Junlang Qian

Note-level Automatic Singing Voice Transcription (AST) converts singing recordings into note sequences, facilitating the automatic annotation of singing datasets for Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) applications. Current AST methods, however,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Ruiqi Li , Yu Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Rongjie Huang , Zhou Zhao

End-to-end Speech Translation (ST) aims to convert speech into target text within a unified model. The inherent differences between speech and text modalities often impede effective cross-modal and cross-lingual transfer. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuhao Zhang , Kaiqi Kou , Bei Li , Chen Xu , Chunliang Zhang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Text style transfer (TST) is the task of transforming a text to reflect a particular style while preserving its original content. Evaluating TST outputs is a multidimensional challenge, requiring the assessment of style transfer accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sourabrata Mukherjee , Atul Kr. Ojha , John P. McCrae , Ondrej Dusek

Music auto-tagging is essential for organizing and discovering music in extensive digital libraries. While foundation models achieve exceptional performance in this domain, their outputs often lack interpretability, limiting trust and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andreas Patakis , Vassilis Lyberatos , Spyridon Kantarelis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

Lyric translation plays a pivotal role in amplifying the global resonance of music, bridging cultural divides, and fostering universal connections. Translating lyrics, unlike conventional translation tasks, requires a delicate balance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Haven Kim , Kento Watanabe , Masataka Goto , Juhan Nam

Obtaining meaningful quality scores for machine translation systems through human evaluation remains a challenge given the high variability between human evaluators, partly due to subjective expectations for translation quality for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Daniel Licht , Cynthia Gao , Janice Lam , Francisco Guzman , Mona Diab , Philipp Koehn

In the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) emerges as a central challenge, aiming to convert audio signals into symbolic notations like musical notes or sheet music. This systematic review…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Fatemeh Jamshidi , Gary Pike , Amit Das , Richard Chapman

Simultaneous interpretation (SI), the translation of one language to another in real time, starts translation before the original speech has finished. Its evaluation needs to consider both latency and quality. This trade-off is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Mana Makinae , Katsuhito Sudoh , Masaru Yamada , Satoshi Nakamura

End-to-end speech translation aims to translate speech in one language into text in another language via an end-to-end way. Most existing methods employ an encoder-decoder structure with a single encoder to learn acoustic representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Yuchen Liu , Junnan Zhu , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

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

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

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