Title
An Auditory Model Based Transcriber of Singing Sequences
Abstract
In this paper, a new system for the automatic transcription of singing sequences into a sequence of pitch and duration pairs is presented. Although such a system may have a wider range of applications, it was mainly developed to become the acoustic module of a query- by-humming (QBH) system for retrieving pieces of music from a digitized musical library. The first part of the paper is devoted to the systematic evaluation of a variety of state-of-the art transcription systems. The main result of this evaluation is that there is clearly a need for more accurate systems. Especially the segmentation was experienced as being too error prone ( % segmentation errors). In the second part of the paper, a new auditory model based tran- scription system is proposed and evaluated. The results of that eval- uation are very promising. Segmentation errors vary between 0 and 7 %, dependent on the amount of lyrics that is used by the singer. The paper ends with the description of an experimental study that was issued to demonstrate that the accuracy of the newly proposed transcription system is not very sensitive to the choice of the free parameters, at least as long as they remain in the vicinity of the values one could forecast on the basis of their meaning.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
ISMIR 2013
digital music
Field
DocType
Citations 
Segmentation,Computer science,Speech recognition,Singing,Lyrics,Free parameter
Conference
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.75
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
lieven clarisse1275.07
Jean-pierre Martens29111.81
Micheline Lesaffre313016.49
B. De Baets492971.49
Hans De Meyer530542.39
h demeyer6212.75
Marc Leman76711.96