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Polina Proutskova, 2020-11-10 06:05 PM


Computational Pronunciation Analysis and Modeling of Sung Utterances

Emir Demirel

Recent automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) approaches focus on building stronger acoustic models or in-domain language models, while the pronunciation aspect is seldom touched upon. This paper applies a novel computational analysis on the pronunciation variances in sung utterances and further proposes a new pronunciation model adapted for singing. The singing-adapted model is tested on multiple public datasets via word recognition experiments. It performs better than the standard speech dictionary in all settings reporting the best results on ALT in a capella recordings using n-gram language models. For reproducibility, we share the sentence-level annotations used in testing, providing a new benchmark evaluation set for ALT.

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