@InProceedings{dzhambazov2016onsetLyrics_ismir,
  Title                    = {On the use of note onsets for improved lyrics-to-audio alignment in {T}urkish makam music},
  Author                   = {Dzhambazov, Georgi and Srinivasamurthy, Ajay and {\c S}ent{\"u}rk, Sertan and Serra, Xavier},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings of 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016)},
  Year                     = {2016},

  Address                  = {New York, NY, USA},
  Pages                    = {716--722},

  Abstract                 = {Lyrics-to-audio alignment aims to automatically match
given lyrics and musical audio. In this work we extend a
state of the art approach for lyrics-to-audio alignment with
information about note onsets. In particular, we consider
the fact that transition to next lyrics syllable usually implies
transition to a new musical note. To this end we formulate
rules that guide the transition between consecutive
phonemes when a note onset is present. These rules are incorporated
into the transition matrix of a variable-time hidden
Markov model (VTHMM) phonetic recognizer based
on MFCCs. An estimated melodic contour is input to
an automatic note transcription algorithm, from which the
note onsets are derived. The proposed approach is evaluated
on 12 a cappella audio recordings of Turkish Makam
music using a phrase-level accuracy measure. Evaluation
of the alignment is also presented on a polyphonic version
of the dataset in order to assess how degradation in the extracted
onsets affects performance. Results show that the
proposed model outperforms a baseline approach unaware
of onset transition rules. To the best of our knowledge, this
is the one of the first approaches tackling lyrics tracking,
which combines timbral features with a melodic feature in
the alignment process itself.},
  File                     = {:publications/dzhambazov2016noteonsetlyics_ismir.pdf:PDF},
  Url                      = {http://sertansenturk.com/uploads/publications/dzhambazov2016noteonsetlyics_ismir.pdf}
}