Automatic Lyrics Transcription of Polyphonic Music With Lyrics-Chord Multi-Task Learning
Journal: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
Year: 2022

Lyrics are the words that make up a song, while chords are harmonic sets of multiple notes in music. Lyrics and chords are generally essential information in music, i.e. unaccompanied singing vocals mixed with instrumental music, representing important components in polyphonic music. In a traditional lyrics transcription task, we first extract the singing vocals from the polyphonic music and then transcribe the resulting singing vocals, where the two steps are optimized independently. In this pa