In a neuro-robotics lab at the University of Southern California, a small mechanical hand heard a melody for the first time and played it back in a single attempt, without any sheet music, pre-loaded ...

Abstract: This research presents a music theory-inspired acoustic representation (hereafter, MTAR) to address improved speech emotion recognition. The recognition of emotion in speech and music is ...

Have you ever heard of Scarlyy2 and their hit track "Banc de touche"? Or the tearful country ballad "Mercy on My Grave," by Aventhis? These tracks have two things in common: They were entirely ...

Abstract: Spectrograms of speech and music contain distinct striation patterns. Traditional features represent various properties of the audio signal but do not necessarily capture such patterns. This ...

MSMD is a synthetic dataset of 497 pieces of (classical) music that contains both audio and score representations of the pieces aligned at a fine-grained level (344,742 pairs of noteheads aligned to ...

Editor’s Note: There's a lot to look forward to in spring, including the welcomed hullabaloo of birdsong. The sheer volume of songs and calls can often feel overwhelming for birders, but these sounds ...

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity. The end of this story includes samples of AI-generated music. Artificial ...

With artificial intelligence programs that can now generate entire songs on demand, you’d be forgiven for thinking AI might eventually lead to the decline of human-made music. But AI can still be used ...