Syllabic level automatic synchronization of music signals and text lyrics

  • Authors:
  • Denny Iskandar;Ye Wang;Min-Yen Kan;Haizhou Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a framework to synchronize pop music to corresponding text lyric. We refine line level alignment achievable by existing work to syllabic level by using a dynamic programming process. Our main contribution is using music knowledge to constrain the dynamic programming search. This is done by modeling (1) non-uniform note length distribution and (2) a note length distribution for each section type (for example intro, chorus, and bridge). These reduce alignment error by 6.4% and improve time efficiency by a factor of 2.2.