Actions Speak Louder than Listening: Evaluating Music Style Transfer based on Editing Experience

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12855v1
• Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:20:30 GMT
• Title: Actions Speak Louder than Listening: Evaluating Music Style Transfer based on Editing Experience
• Authors: Wei-Tsung Lu, Meng-Hsuan Wu, Yuh-Ming Chiu, Li Su
• Abstract summary: We propose an editing test to evaluate users' editing experience of music generation models in a systematic way. Results on two target styles indicate that the improvement over the baseline model can be reflected by the editing test quantitatively.
• Score: 4.986422167919228
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The subjective evaluation of music generation techniques has been mostly done with questionnaire-based listening tests while ignoring the perspectives from music composition, arrangement, and soundtrack editing. In this paper, we propose an editing test to evaluate users' editing experience of music generation models in a systematic way. To do this, we design a new music style transfer model combining the non-chronological inference architecture, autoregressive models and the Transformer, which serves as an improvement from the baseline model on the same style transfer task. Then, we compare the performance of the two models with a conventional listening test and the proposed editing test, in which the quality of generated samples is assessed by the amount of effort (e.g., the number of required keyboard and mouse actions) spent by users to polish a music clip. Results on two target styles indicate that the improvement over the baseline model can be reflected by the editing test quantitatively. Also, the editing test provides profound insights which are not accessible from usual listening tests. The major contribution of this paper is the systematic presentation of the editing test and the corresponding insights, while the proposed music style transfer model based on state-of-the-art neural networks represents another contribution.

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