publication . Conference object . Other literature type . 2014

Keyword spotting in a-capella singing

Name: Keyword spotting in a-capella singing
Creator: Anna Kruspe
Keywords: vocal analysis, keyword spotting

Anna Kruspe;

Open Access English

Published: 27 Oct 2014

Country: Germany

Summary

Abstract

Keyword spotting (or spoken term detection) is an interesting task in Music Information Retrieval that can be applied to a number of problems. Its purposes include topical search and improvements for genre classification. Keyword spotting is a well-researched task on pure speech, but state-of-the-art approaches cannot be easily transferred to singing because phoneme durations have much higher variations in singing. To our knowledge, no keyword spotting system for singing has been presented yet. We present a keyword spotting approach based on keyword-filler Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and test it on a-capella singing and spoken lyrics. We test Mel-Frequency Cepst...