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Song lyrics convey a meaningful story in a creative manner with complex rhythmic patterns. Researchers have been successful in generating and analyisng lyrics for poetry and songs in English and Chinese. But there are no works which explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Naman Jain , Ankush Chauhan , Atharva Chewale , Ojas Mithbavkar , Ujjaval Shah , Mayank Singh

Diffusion and flow-matching models have revolutionized automatic text-to-audio generation in recent times. These models are increasingly capable of generating high quality and faithful audio outputs capturing to speech and acoustic events.…

A big challenge in algorithmic composition is to devise a model that is both easily trainable and able to reproduce the long-range temporal dependencies typical of music. Here we investigate how artificial neural networks can be trained on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Florian Colombo , Samuel P. Muscinelli , Alexander Seeholzer , Johanni Brea , Wulfram Gerstner

Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) remains constrained in practical deployment due to its strong dependence on accurate phoneme-level alignment and manually annotated melody contours, requirements that are resource-intensive and hinder…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junjie Zheng , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Xiaoyu Zhang , Gongyu Chen , Chaofan Ding , Zihao Chen , Lei Xie

Natural language serves as a common and straightforward signal for humans to interact seamlessly with machines. Recognizing the importance of this interface, the machine learning community is investing considerable effort in generating data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shiyu Wang , Yihao Feng , Tian Lan , Ning Yu , Yu Bai , Ran Xu , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese

Recent advancements in song generation have shown promising results in generating songs from lyrics and/or global text prompts. However, most existing systems lack the ability to model the temporally varying attributes of songs, limiting…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Pengfei Cai , Joanna Wang , Haorui Zheng , Xu Li , Zihao Ji , Teng Ma , Zhongliang Liu , Chen Zhang , Pengfei Wan

Human usually composes music by organizing elements according to the musical form to express music ideas. However, for neural network-based music generation, it is difficult to do so due to the lack of labelled data on musical form. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Peiling Lu , Xu Tan , Botao Yu , Tao Qin , Sheng Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

In this work, we present TGLS, a novel framework to unsupervised Text Generation by Learning from Search. We start by applying a strong search algorithm (in particular, simulated annealing) towards a heuristically defined objective that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jingjing Li , Zichao Li , Lili Mou , Xin Jiang , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Real-time music accompaniment generation has a wide range of applications in the music industry, such as music education and live performances. However, automatic real-time music accompaniment generation is still understudied and often…

Music that is generated by recurrent neural networks often lacks a sense of direction and coherence. We therefore propose a two-stage LSTM-based model for lead sheet generation, in which the harmonic and rhythmic templates of the song are…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Cedric De Boom , Stephanie Van Laere , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

In this paper, we propose to adapt the method of mutual information maximization into the task of Chinese lyrics conditioned melody generation to improve the generation quality and diversity. We employ scheduled sampling and force decoding…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ruibin Yuan , Ge Zhang , Anqiao Yang , Xinyue Zhang

Recently, a variety of neural models have been proposed for lyrics generation. However, most previous work completes the generation process in a single pass with little human intervention. We believe that lyrics creation is a creative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rongsheng Zhang , Xiaoxi Mao , Le Li , Lin Jiang , Lin Chen , Zhiwei Hu , Yadong Xi , Changjie Fan , Minlie Huang

Singing is one of the most cherished forms of human entertainment. However, creating a beautiful song requires an accompaniment that complements the vocals and aligns well with the song instruments and genre. With advancements in deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Minh-Van Nguyen , Trong-Hieu Nguyen Mau , Khoa Tran , Thanh Do

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize either the vocal track or the accompaniment track. While some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ziqian Ning , Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie

We present a system for generating novel lyrics lines conditioned on music audio. A bimodal neural network model learns to generate lines conditioned on any given short audio clip. The model consists of a spectrogram variational autoencoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Olga Vechtomova , Gaurav Sahu , Dhruv Kumar

The field of AI-assisted music creation has made significant strides, yet existing systems often struggle to meet the demands of iterative and nuanced music production. These challenges include providing sufficient control over the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yixiao Zhang

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

Writing rap lyrics requires both creativity to construct a meaningful, interesting story and lyrical skills to produce complex rhyme patterns, which form the cornerstone of good flow. We present a rap lyrics generation method that captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Eric Malmi , Pyry Takala , Hannu Toivonen , Tapani Raiko , Aristides Gionis

With rapid development of neural networks, deep-learning has been extended to various natural language generation fields, such as machine translation, dialogue generation and even literature creation. In this paper, we propose a theme-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Jie Wang , Xinyan Zhao

We propose a novel method to model hierarchical metrical structures for both symbolic music and audio signals in a self-supervised manner with minimal domain knowledge. The model trains and inferences on beat-aligned music signals and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia