Kuriakose, JomKumar, J ChaitanyaSarala, PadiMurthy, Hema A.Sivaraman, Umayalpuram K2016-02-092016-02-092015Kuriakose J, Kumar JC, Sarala P, Murthy HA, Sivaraman UK. Akshara transcription of mrudangam strokes in carnatic music. In: 2015 Twenty First National Conference on Communication (NCC); 2015 Feb 27 - March 1; Mumbai, India. Piscataway: IEEE; 2015. p. 1-6. DOI 10.1109/NCC.2015.7084906http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25757Percussion instruments play a significant role in/nCarnatic music concerts. The percussion artist enjoys a great/ndegree of freedom in improvising within the defined tala/nstructure/nof a composition. The objective of this paper is to transcribe the/nimprovisations, treating the percussion strokes as syllables or/naksharas./nOnset detection is performed to segment the waveform at/neach/nakshara/n. Using the transcriptions from the training data,/na three-state Hidden Markov Model is built for each/nakshara/n./nThe language model is derived from the training data. Testing/nis also performed isolated style using onset detection to segment/nthe phrase, and the language model to correct the transcription./nTranscription is performed on both concert recordings and studio/nrecordings. This technique yields upto/n≈/n96%/naccuracy on studio/nrecordings and/n≈/n76%/naccuracy for concert recordings./nAs the mrudangam/n1/nis an instrument that is based on tonic;/ntonic normalised features, namely, Cent Filterbank Cepstral/ncoefficients are used. It is shown that tonic normalisation helps/nin transcription across different tonics.application/pdfeng© 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The final published article can be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=7084906info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NCC.2015.7084906info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess