Singing Transcription

Abstract

Singing refers to the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, and singing transcription refers to the automatic conversion of a recorded singing signal into a parametric representation (e.g., a MIDI file) by applying signal-processing methods. Singing transcription is an important topic in computational music-content analysis since it is the most natural way of human-computer interaction in the musical sense: even a musically untrained subject is usually able to hum the melody of a piece. This chapter introduces the singing transcription problem and presents an overview of the main approaches to solve it, including the current state-of-the-art singing transcription systems.