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Statistical Machine Translation from Arab Vocal Improvisation to Instrumental Melodic Accompaniment

Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh
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Vocal improvisation is an essential practice in Arab music. The interactivity between the singer and the instru-mentalist(s) is a main feature of this deep-rooted musical form. As part of the interactivity, the instrumentalist re-capitulates, or translates, each vocal sentence upon its completion. In this paper, we present our own parallel corpus of instrumentally accompanied Arab vocal improvisation. The initial size of the corpus is 2779 parallel sentences. We discuss the process of building this corpus as well as the choice of data representation. We also present some statistics about the corpus. Then we present initial experiments on applying statistical machine translation to propose an automatic instrumental accompaniment to Arab vocal improvisation. The results with this small corpus, in comparison to classical machine translation of natural languages, are very promising: a BLEU of 24.62 from Vocal to instrumental and 24.07 from instrumental to vocal.
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hal-01660023 , version 1 (09-12-2017)

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Fadi Al-Ghawanmeh, Kamel Smaïli. Statistical Machine Translation from Arab Vocal Improvisation to Instrumental Melodic Accompaniment. ICNLSSP 2017 - International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing, ISGA, Dec 2017, Casablanca, Morocco. ⟨hal-01660023⟩
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