Do Joint Language-Audio Embeddings Encode Perceptual Timbre Semantics?
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arXiv:2510.14249v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and modeling the relationship between language and sound are essential for applications such as music information retrieval, text-guided music generation, and audio captioning. Central to these tasks are joint language-audio embedding spaces, which map textual descriptions and auditory content into a shared representation. Although multimodal embedding models such as MS-CLAP, LAION-CLAP, MuQ-MuLan, and OpenFLAM have shown strong performance in language-audio alignment, their correspondence to human perception of timbre, a
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2510.14249v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and modeling the relationship between language and sound are essential for applications such as music information retrieval, text-guided music generation, and audio captioning.
- Central to these tasks are joint language-audio embedding spaces, which map textual descriptions and auditory content into a shared representation.
- Although multimodal embedding models such as MS-CLAP, LAION-CLAP, MuQ-MuLan, and OpenFLAM have shown strong performance in language-audio alignment, their correspondence to human perception of timbre, a
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