TeleMelody: Lyric-to-Melody Generation with a Template-Based Two-Stage Method (2022.emnlp-main)
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Zeqian Ju, Peiling Lu, Xu Tan, Rui Wang, Chen Zhang, Songruoyao Wu, Kejun Zhang, Xiang-Yang Li, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu
| Challenge: | a new lyric-to-melody generation system bridges the gap between lyrics and melodies . previous generation systems lack paired data and lack of control on generated melodie. |
| Approach: | They develop a lyric-to-melody generation system with music template to bridge the gap between lyrics and melodies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system bridges the gap between lyrics and melodies by using music template. |
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