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Artificial Intelligence (AI) song generation has emerged as a popular topic, yet the focus on exploring the latent correlations between specific lyrical and rhythmic features remains limited. In contrast, this pilot study particularly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Callie C. Liao , Duoduo Liao , Ellie L. Zhang

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

Diffusion models have shown promising results in cross-modal generation tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-audio generation. However, generating music, as a special type of audio, presents unique challenges due to limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ke Chen , Yusong Wu , Haohe Liu , Marianna Nezhurina , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

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

Traditional music search engines rely on retrieval methods that match natural language queries with music metadata. There have been increasing efforts to expand retrieval methods to consider the audio characteristics of music itself, using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shanti Stewart , Kleanthis Avramidis , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Reward models (RMs) are a crucial component in the alignment of large language models' (LLMs) outputs with human values. RMs approximate human preferences over possible LLM responses to the same prompt by predicting and comparing reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Junqi Jiang , Tom Bewley , Saumitra Mishra , Freddy Lecue , Manuela Veloso

The ability of generative large language models (LLMs) to perform in-context learning has given rise to a large body of research into how best to prompt models for various natural language processing tasks. Machine Translation (MT) has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Armel Zebaze , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Symbolic Music Alignment is the process of matching performed MIDI notes to corresponding score notes. In this paper, we introduce a reinforcement learning (RL)-based online symbolic music alignment technique. The RL agent - an…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Silvan David Peter

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

Creating a pop song melody according to pre-written lyrics is a typical practice for composers. A computational model of how lyrics are set as melodies is important for automatic composition systems, but an end-to-end lyric-to-melody model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Daiyu Zhang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Katerina Kosta , Jordan B. L. Smith , Shicen Zhou

Symbolic Music, akin to language, can be encoded in discrete symbols. Recent research has extended the application of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama2 to the symbolic music domain including understanding and generation.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ziya Zhou , Yuhang Wu , Zhiyue Wu , Xinyue Zhang , Ruibin Yuan , Yinghao Ma , Lu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos , Wei Xue , Yike Guo

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

Detecting music entities such as song titles or artist names is a useful application to help use cases like processing music search queries or analyzing music consumption on the web. Recent approaches incorporate smaller language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Simon Hachmeier , Robert Jäschke

LLM-powered code generation has the potential to revolutionize creative coding endeavors, such as live-coding, by enabling users to focus on structural motifs over syntactic details. In such domains, when prompting an LLM, users may benefit…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sam Kouteili , Hiren Madhu , George Typaldos , Mark Santolucito

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

Content creators often use music to enhance their videos, from soundtracks in movies to background music in video blogs and social media content. However, identifying the best music for a video can be a difficult and time-consuming task. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shanti Stewart , Gouthaman KV , Lie Lu , Andrea Fanelli

We introduce a framework that recommends music based on the emotions of speech. In content creation and daily life, speech contains information about human emotions, which can be enhanced by music. Our framework focuses on a cross-domain…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-21 SeungHeon Doh , Minz Won , Keunwoo Choi , Juhan Nam

Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yinghao Ma , Siyou Li , Juntao Yu , Emmanouil Benetos , Akira Maezawa

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis