151. LOAF-M2L: Joint Learning of Wording and Formatting for Singable Melody-to-Lyric Generation
- Author
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Ou, Longshen, Ma, Xichu, and Wang, Ye
- Subjects
Computer Science - Computation and Language ,Computer Science - Sound ,Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing - Abstract
Despite previous efforts in melody-to-lyric generation research, there is still a significant compatibility gap between generated lyrics and melodies, negatively impacting the singability of the outputs. This paper bridges the singability gap with a novel approach to generating singable lyrics by jointly Learning wOrding And Formatting during Melody-to-Lyric training. After general-domain pretraining, our proposed model acquires length awareness first from a large text-only lyric corpus. Then, we introduce a new objective informed by musicological research on the relationship between melody and lyrics during melody-to-lyric training, which enables the model to learn the fine-grained format requirements of the melody. Our model achieves 3.75% and 21.44% absolute accuracy gains in the outputs' number-of-line and syllable-per-line requirements compared to naive fine-tuning, without sacrificing text fluency. Furthermore, our model demonstrates a 63.92% and 74.18% relative improvement of music-lyric compatibility and overall quality in the subjective evaluation, compared to the state-of-the-art melody-to-lyric generation model, highlighting the significance of formatting learning., Comment: An extension of our previous work arXiv:2305.16816 [cs.CL]
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- 2023