Automatic Lyrics Alignment and Transcription in Polyphonic Music: Does Background Music Help?
Journal: arXiv (Cornell University)
Year: 2019

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 this work, we propose to learn music genre-specific characteristics to train polyphonic acoustic models. We first compare several automatic speech recognition pipelines for the application of lyrics transcription. We then present the lyrics alignment and trans