34 papers
Audio-Based Understanding of Audiobook Narration Appeal
Shahar Elisha, Mariano Beguerisse-DÃaz, Emmanouil Benetos
Narration is central to the audiobook listening experience, shaping how listeners engage with and understand the content. This work explores how narration qualities shape an audiob…
Velocity Prediction in Automatic Guitar Transcription
Jackson Loth, Xavier Riley, Simon Dixon +1
Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) models have achieved a high level of success in polyphonic transcription of various instruments. Velocity, typically a measure of note intensity…
CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
Yinghao Ma, Haiwen Xia, Hewei Gao +9
While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we…
Audio-FLAN: An Instruction-Following Dataset for Unified Audio Understanding and Generation of Speech, Music, and Sound
Liumeng Xue, Ziya Zhou, Jiahao Pan +20
Recent advancements in audio tokenization have significantly enhanced the integration of audio capabilities into large language models (LLMs). However, audio understanding and gene…
Quality Audio Prototyping: a prototype system for unified sound retrieval and procedural generation
Nelly Garcia, Aditya Bhattacharjee, Gabryel Mason-Williams +3
Sound design workflows frequently oscillate between time-consuming library searches and the complexity of procedural synthesis, with practitioners typically relying on disconnected…
Text2Score: Generating Sheet Music From Textual Prompts
Keshav Bhandari, Sungkyun Chang, Abhinaba Roy +4
Developing text-driven symbolic music generation models remains challenging due to the scarcity of aligned text-music datasets and the unreliability of automated captioning pipelin…