Publications

2026

1. Conference

   

   Overview of the ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyric Intelligibility

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike, Jon P. Barker, Trevor J. Cox, Michael A. Akeroyd, Scott Bannister, Bruno Fazenda, Jennifer Firth, Simone Graetzer, Alinka Greasley, Rebecca R. Vos, and William M. Whitmer

   In ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026

   DOI Bib Code Website

   @inproceedings{11463231,
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Barker, Jon P. and Cox, Trevor J. and Akeroyd, Michael A. and Bannister, Scott and Fazenda, Bruno and Firth, Jennifer and Graetzer, Simone and Greasley, Alinka and Vos, Rebecca R. and Whitmer, William M.},
     booktitle = {ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     title = {Overview of the ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyric Intelligibility},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {21757-21759},
     keywords = {Internet;Protocols;Communication systems;Computer networks;HTTP;Codecs;Over-the-top media services;Streaming media;Machine learning;Artificial intelligence;hearing loss;machine learning;intelligibility;lyrics;music},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463231},
   }

2. Data Paper

   

   The Cadenza lyric intelligibility prediction (CLIP) dataset

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike, Trevor J. Cox, Jon P. Barker, Bruno M. Fazenda, Simone Graetzer, Rebecca R. Vos, Michael A. Akeroyd, Jennifer Firth, William M. Whitmer, Scott Bannister, and Alinka Greasley

   Data in Brief, 2026

   DOI Bib Code Website

   @article{ROADABIKE2026112466,
     title = {The Cadenza lyric intelligibility prediction (CLIP) dataset},
     journal = {Data in Brief},
     volume = {65},
     pages = {112466},
     year = {2026},
     issn = {2352-3409},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112466},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340926000193},
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Cox, Trevor J. and Barker, Jon P. and Fazenda, Bruno M. and Graetzer, Simone and Vos, Rebecca R. and Akeroyd, Michael A. and Firth, Jennifer and Whitmer, William M. and Bannister, Scott and Greasley, Alinka},
   }

2025

1. Data Paper

   

   The First Cadenza Challenges: Using Machine Learning Competitions to Improve Music for Listeners With a Hearing Loss

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike, Michael A. Akeroyd, Scott Bannister, Jon P. Barker, Trevor J. Cox, Bruno Fazenda, Jennifer Firth, Simone Graetzer, Alinka Greasley, Rebecca R. Vos, and William M. Whitmer

   IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2025

   DOI Bib Code Website

   @article{roadabike2025_ojsp,
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Akeroyd, Michael A. and Bannister, Scott and Barker, Jon P. and Cox, Trevor J. and Fazenda, Bruno and Firth, Jennifer and Graetzer, Simone and Greasley, Alinka and Vos, Rebecca R. and Whitmer, William M.},
     journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
     title = {The First Cadenza Challenges: Using Machine Learning Competitions to Improve Music for Listeners With a Hearing Loss},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {6},
     number = {},
     pages = {722-734},
     doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3578299},
   }

2024

1. Conference

   

   The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike, Michael A. Akeroyd, Scott Bannister, Jon Barker, Trevor J. Cox, Bruno Fazenda, Jennifer Firth, Simone Graetzer, Alinka Greasley, Rebecca R. Vos, and William M. Whitmer

   In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2024

   DOI Bib Code Website

   @inproceedings{roadabike2024_icassp,
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Akeroyd, Michael A. and Bannister, Scott and Barker, Jon and Cox, Trevor J. and Fazenda, Bruno and Firth, Jennifer and Graetzer, Simone and Greasley, Alinka and Vos, Rebecca R. and Whitmer, William M.},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
     title = {The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {93-94},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSPW62465.2024.10626340},
   }

2. Data Paper

   

   The Cadenza Woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike, Trevor J. Cox, Alex J. Miller, Bruno M. Fazenda, Simone Graetzer, Rebecca R. Vos, Michael A. Akeroyd, Jennifer Firth, William M. Whitmer, Scott Bannister, Alinka Greasley, and Jon P. Barker

   Data in Brief, 2024

   DOI Bib Code Website

   @article{roadabike2024_dib,
     title = {The Cadenza Woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning},
     journal = {Data in Brief},
     volume = {57},
     pages = {111199},
     year = {2024},
     issn = {2352-3409},
     doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111199},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340924011612},
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Cox, Trevor J. and Miller, Alex J. and Fazenda, Bruno M. and Graetzer, Simone and Vos, Rebecca R. and Akeroyd, Michael A. and Firth, Jennifer and Whitmer, William M. and Bannister, Scott and Greasley, Alinka and Barker, Jon P.},
   }

2021

1. Conference

   

   The use of Voice Source Features for Sung Speech Recognition

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike and Jon P. Barker

   In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{roadabike2021_icassp,
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Barker, Jon P.},
     booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     title = {The use of Voice Source Features for Sung Speech Recognition},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {6513-6517},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414950},
   }

2020

1. Workshop

   

   The Sheffield University System for the MIREX 2020: Lyrics Transcription Task

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike and Jon Barker

   In Mirex 2020, Nov 2020

   Bib Code

   @inproceedings{inproceedings,
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Barker, Jon},
     year = {2020},
     month = nov,
     pages = {},
     booktitle = {Mirex 2020},
     title = {The Sheffield University System for the MIREX 2020: Lyrics Transcription Task},
   }

2019

1. Conference

   

   Automatic Lyric Transcription from Karaoke Vocal Tracks: Resources and a Baseline System

   Gerardo Roa-Dabike and Jon P. Barker

   In Interspeech 2019, 2019

   DOI Bib Code

   @inproceedings{roadabike2019_interspeech,
     title = {Automatic Lyric Transcription from Karaoke Vocal Tracks: Resources and a Baseline System},
     author = {Roa-Dabike, Gerardo and Barker, Jon P.},
     year = {2019},
     booktitle = {Interspeech 2019},
     pages = {579--583},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2378},
     issn = {2958-1796},
   }