On the reduction of false positives in singing voice detection

Motivated by the observation that one of the biggest problems in automatic singing voice detection is the confusion of vocals with other pitch-continuous and pitch-varying instruments, we propose a set of three new audio features designed to reduce the amount of false vocal detections. This is borne out in comparative experiments with three different musical corpora. The resulting singing voice detector appears to be at least on par with more complex state-of-the-art methods. New features and classifier are very light-weight and in principle suitable for on-line use.

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