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This paper presents a novel, syllable-structured Chinese lyrics generation model given a piece of original melody. Most previously reported lyrics generation models fail to include the relationship between lyrics and melody. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xu Lu , Jie Wang , Bojin Zhuang , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

Recent studies in singing voice synthesis have achieved high-quality results leveraging advances in text-to-speech models based on deep neural networks. One of the main issues in training singing voice synthesis models is that they require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Soonbeom Choi , Juhan Nam

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

Recent deep music generation studies have put much emphasis on long-term generation with structures. However, we are yet to see high-quality, well-structured whole-song generation. In this paper, we make the first attempt to model a full…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Ziyu Wang , Lejun Min , Gus Xia

Word alignment which aims to extract lexicon translation equivalents between source and target sentences, serves as a fundamental tool for natural language processing. Recent studies in this area have yielded substantial improvements by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Siyu Lai , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

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

Music genre classification, especially using lyrics alone, remains a challenging topic in Music Information Retrieval. In this study we apply recurrent neural network models to classify a large dataset of intact song lyrics. As lyrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Alexandros Tsaptsinos

Previous multimodal sentence representation learning methods have achieved impressive performance. However, most approaches focus on aligning images and text at a coarse level, facing two critical challenges:cross-modal misalignment bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Kang He , Yuzhe Ding , Haining Wang , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Mean Opinion Score (MOS) prediction for text to music systems requires evaluating both overall musical quality and text prompt alignment. This paper introduces WhisQ, a multimodal architecture that addresses this dual-assessment challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jakaria Islam Emon , Kazi Tamanna Alam , Md. Abu Salek

The connection between music and lyrics is far beyond semantic bonds. Conceptual pairs in the two modalities such as rhythm and rhyme, note duration and syllabic stress, and structure correspondence, raise a compelling yet seldom-explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Changhong Wang , Michel Olvera , Gaël Richard

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

A major challenge for video captioning is to combine audio and visual cues. Existing multi-modal fusion methods have shown encouraging results in video understanding. However, the temporal structures of multiple modalities at different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

Automatic song writing is a topic of significant practical interest. However, its research is largely hindered by the lack of training data due to copyright concerns and challenged by its creative nature. Most noticeably, prior works often…

The present methodology is aimed at cross-modal machine learning and uses multidisciplinary tools and methods drawn from a broad range of areas and disciplines, including music, systematic musicology, dance, motion capture, human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Fabio Paolizzo

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

We propose MoodNet - A Deep Convolutional Neural Network based architecture to effectively predict the emotion associated with a piece of music given its audio and lyrical content.We evaluate different architectures consisting of varying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-15 Aniruddha Bhattacharya , K. V. Kadambari

We introduce MusicFlow, a cascaded text-to-music generation model based on flow matching. Based on self-supervised representations to bridge between text descriptions and music audios, we construct two flow matching networks to model the…

CLIP has shown promising performance across many short-text tasks in a zero-shot manner. However, limited by the input length of the text encoder, CLIP struggles on under-stream tasks with long-text inputs ($>77$ tokens). To remedy this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bingchao Wang , Zhiwei Ning , Jianyu Ding , Xuanang Gao , Yin Li , Dongsheng Jiang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Audio-to-score alignment is a long-standing challenge in music information retrieval and arguably the most widely applicable alignment task for music research. Alignment algorithms match two versions of a piece of music, and for this to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

In musical compositions that include vocals, lyrics significantly contribute to artistic expression. Consequently, previous studies have introduced the concept of a recommendation system that suggests lyrics similar to a user's favorites or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Haven Kim , Taketo Akama