Taking sides: dynamic text and hip-hop performance

Audio recordings are usually treated as one unbreakable and sequential document. Most interfaces only support basic audio navigation controls such as play, pause, forward, and rewind. However, by extracting meaningful information from audio, such as the ...

The characteristics of vocal segments in music are an important cue for automatic, content-based music recommendation, especially in the urban genre. In this paper, we investigate the classification of audio segments into singing and rap, using low-...

Writing rap lyrics requires both creativity to construct a meaningful, interesting story and lyrical skills to produce complex rhyme patterns, which form the cornerstone of good flow. We present a rap lyrics generation method that captures both of these ...