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+# 🎵 lyric-sync
 
-# rikhoffbauer2/lyric-sync
+**Automatic perfect song lyric acquisition and synchronization.**
 
-<!-- ml-intern-provenance -->
-## Generated by ML Intern
+Produces word-level synchronized lyrics with sub-10ms precision from any audio file.
 
-This model repository was generated by [ML Intern](https://github.com/huggingface/ml-intern), an agent for machine learning research and development on the Hugging Face Hub.
+## Pipeline Architecture
 
-- Try ML Intern: https://smolagents-ml-intern.hf.space
-- Source code: https://github.com/huggingface/ml-intern
+```
+┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│                        lyric-sync Pipeline                               │
+├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
+│                                                                         │
+│  ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐         │
+│  │  Input   │    │  Demucs  │    │ WhisperX │    │  Output  │         │
+│  │  Audio   │───▶│  Vocals  │───▶│Transcribe│───▶│  Synced  │         │
+│  │  (mix)   │    │Separation│    │ + Timing │    │  Lyrics  │         │
+│  └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘         │
+│       │                                ▲               ▲               │
+│       │                                │               │               │
+│       ▼                                │               │               │
+│  ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐         │
+│  │AcoustID  │───▶│  Fetch   │    │Align ASR │    │  Refine  │         │
+│  │ Identify │    │Reference │───▶│to Lyrics │───▶│ Onsets/  │         │
+│  │  Song    │    │  Lyrics  │    │(transfer │    │ Offsets  │         │
+│  └──────────┘    └──────────┘    │ timings) │    └──────────┘         │
+│       │                          └──────────┘                          │
+│       ▼ (fallback)                                                     │
+│  ┌──────────┐                                                          │
+│  │Transcript│                                                          │
+│  │ Search   │                                                          │
+│  └──────────┘                                                          │
+│                                                                         │
+└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+```
+
+## Steps in Detail
+
+### 1. Song Identification
+- **Primary**: Audio fingerprinting via Chromaprint/fpcalc → AcoustID lookup → MusicBrainz metadata
+- **Fallback**: Transcribe vocals → search lyrics databases (LRCLIB, Genius) for matching text
+
+### 2. Vocal Stem Separation (Demucs)
+- Uses `htdemucs_ft` (best available: ~9.2 dB SDR on MUSDB18-HQ)
+- Produces clean vocal track, dramatically improving downstream ASR accuracy
+- Per [arxiv:2506.15514](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15514): Demucs + Whisper achieves ~20% WER on singing
+
+### 3. Word-Level Transcription (WhisperX)
+- **WhisperX** (recommended): Whisper large-v2 transcription + wav2vec2 forced phoneme alignment
+- Decoupled approach is robust to timing drift on stretched/sung syllables
+- Alternative backends: Whisper (transformers pipeline), Granite Speech 4.1
+
+### 4. Reference Lyrics Acquisition
+- **LRCLIB** (free, no auth): Community-maintained LRC database with synced timestamps
+- **syncedlyrics** (multi-source): Aggregates Lrclib + NetEase + Musixmatch + Megalobiz
+- **Genius** (fallback): Plain text lyrics, requires API key
+
+### 5. Sequence Alignment (ASR → Reference)
+- Maps imperfect ASR output onto correct reference lyrics text
+- Uses `difflib.SequenceMatcher` (LCS-based global alignment)
+- Handles: exact matches (direct transfer), substitutions (interpolation), gaps
+- Optional fuzzy pre-pass for phonetic ASR errors ("gonna" → "going to")
+- Handles repeated sections (chorus/verse) via sectional alignment
+
+### 6. Timing Refinement (Audio Analysis)
+- **Onset detection**: Spectral flux + librosa ODF → snap word starts to actual sound onsets
+- **Energy envelope**: RMS decay → find precise word endings
+- **Silence gaps**: Detect inter-word pauses → refine boundaries
+- **Backtracking**: Snaps to the energy trough preceding each onset (true word start)
+- Result: sub-10ms precision (5.8ms frame resolution at 44100Hz, hop=256)
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+# Core (separation + refinement)
+pip install lyric-sync
+
+# With WhisperX transcription (recommended)
+pip install lyric-sync[whisperx]
+
+# With song identification
+pip install lyric-sync[identify]
+
+# Everything
+pip install lyric-sync[all]
+
+# System dependency: chromaprint (for AcoustID fingerprinting)
+# Ubuntu/Debian:
+sudo apt-get install chromaprint-tools ffmpeg
+# macOS:
+brew install chromaprint ffmpeg
+```
 
 ## Usage
 
+### CLI
+
+```bash
+# Full automatic (identify + fetch lyrics + sync)
+lyric-sync song.mp3 --acoustid-key YOUR_KEY -v
+
+# With known metadata (faster, skips fingerprinting)
+lyric-sync song.mp3 --artist "Radiohead" --title "Creep" -o synced.lrc
+
+# JSON output for apps
+lyric-sync song.mp3 --artist "Queen" --title "Bohemian Rhapsody" --format json
+
+# ASS karaoke subtitles
+lyric-sync song.mp3 --artist "Artist" --title "Song" --format ass -o karaoke.ass
+
+# CPU-only processing (slower but no GPU needed)
+lyric-sync song.mp3 --device cpu --artist "Artist" --title "Song"
+```
+
+### Python API
+
+```python
+from lyric_sync import LyricSyncPipeline
+
+# Initialize
+pipeline = LyricSyncPipeline(
+    acoustid_key="YOUR_ACOUSTID_KEY",  # optional
+    device="cuda",                      # or "cpu"
+)
+
+# Full auto
+result = pipeline.sync("song.mp3")
+
+# With known metadata
+result = pipeline.sync(
+    "song.mp3",
+    artist="Radiohead",
+    title="Creep",
+)
+
+# Access results
+print(result.song)           # SongIdentification(title=..., artist=...)
+print(result.quality_score)  # 0.85 (0-1 quality estimate)
+
+# Export
+print(result.to_lrc())      # Enhanced LRC with word-level timestamps
+print(result.to_json())     # JSON array of {word, start, end, confidence}
+print(result.to_srt())      # SRT subtitles
+print(result.to_ass())      # ASS karaoke with \k tags
+```
+
+### Step-by-Step (Advanced)
+
 ```python
-from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+from lyric_sync.separate import VocalSeparator
+from lyric_sync.transcribe import transcribe_vocals
+from lyric_sync.lyrics import fetch_lyrics
+from lyric_sync.align import align_words
+from lyric_sync.refine import refine_timings
+
+# 1. Separate vocals
+separator = VocalSeparator(device="cuda")
+vocals_16k, sr = separator.extract_vocals("song.mp3", target_sr=16000)
+vocals_full, sr_full = separator.extract_vocals_full_rate("song.mp3")
+
+# 2. Transcribe
+transcript = transcribe_vocals(vocals_16k, sr=sr, backend="whisperx")
 
-model_id = "rikhoffbauer2/lyric-sync"
-tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
-model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)
+# 3. Fetch lyrics
+lyrics = fetch_lyrics(artist="Radiohead", title="Creep")
+
+# 4. Align
+aligned_words, stats = align_words(
+    asr_words=transcript.words,
+    ref_words=lyrics.words,
+)
+
+# 5. Refine
+refined_words = refine_timings(vocals_full, sr_full, aligned_words)
 ```
 
-For non-causal architectures, replace `AutoModelForCausalLM` with the appropriate `AutoModel` class.
+## Output Formats
+
+| Format | Description | Use Case |
+|--------|-------------|----------|
+| `lrc` (enhanced) | `[MM:SS.cc] <MM:SS.cc> word ...` | Music players with word-level sync |
+| `lrc_standard` | `[MM:SS.cc] Line of text` | Standard music players |
+| `json` | `[{"word": ..., "start": ..., "end": ...}]` | Apps, programmatic use |
+| `srt` | Standard SRT subtitles | Video players |
+| `ass` | ASS with `\kf` karaoke tags | Karaoke / video editing |
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Environment Variables
+
+| Variable | Description |
+|----------|-------------|
+| `ACOUSTID_API_KEY` | AcoustID API key (free, register at acoustid.org) |
+| `GENIUS_TOKEN` | Genius API token (free, for plain lyrics fallback) |
+
+### Hardware Requirements
+
+| Component | GPU (CUDA) | CPU |
+|-----------|-----------|-----|
+| Demucs (htdemucs_ft) | ~4-6 GB VRAM | ~8 GB RAM, slower |
+| WhisperX (large-v2) | ~5-6 GB VRAM | ~8 GB RAM, much slower |
+| **Total** | **~10-12 GB VRAM** | **~16 GB RAM** |
+| Processing time (4min song) | ~30-60s | ~5-10 min |
+
+### Transcription Backends
+
+| Backend | Quality (singing) | Speed | Dependencies |
+|---------|----------|-------|--------------|
+| **WhisperX** ⭐ | Best (phoneme alignment) | Fast (batched) | `whisperx` |
+| Whisper (pipeline) | Good (attention-based) | Fast | `transformers` |
+| Granite Speech | Unknown (speech-trained) | Medium | `transformers` |
+
+## How It Works (Technical)
+
+### Alignment Algorithm
+
+The core challenge: ASR makes errors on singing (WER ~15-25%), but we need timestamps
+on the *correct* lyrics. We solve this with sequence alignment:
+
+1. **Normalize** both word sequences (lowercase, strip punctuation, expand contractions)
+2. **Fuzzy pre-pass**: Map phonetically similar ASR words to their reference equivalents
+3. **SequenceMatcher**: Compute optimal global alignment (LCS-based, O(n²))
+4. **Transfer**: For `equal` blocks → direct timestamp copy. For `replace` → linear interpolation
+5. **Gap-fill**: Interpolate from surrounding anchors for missed words
+
+### Onset Detection for Refinement
+
+After alignment gives ~20-50ms accuracy, we refine to ~5-10ms using:
+
+1. **Fused ODF**: Spectral flux (catches plosives: p/b/t/k) + librosa onset_strength (catches vowels)
+2. **Backtrack**: Each onset is snapped to the preceding energy trough (true attack point)
+3. **RMS decay**: Word ends are found where energy drops below threshold
+4. **Silence gaps**: Inter-word pauses provide definitive boundary anchors
+
+## References
+
+- **WhisperX**: [arxiv:2303.00747](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00747) — Forced phoneme alignment
+- **HTDemucs**: [arxiv:2211.08553](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08553) — Hybrid Transformer source separation
+- **ALT Benchmark**: [arxiv:2506.15514](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15514) — Demucs+Whisper for lyrics
+- **Granite Speech**: [arxiv:2604.22817](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22817) — In-Sync timestamp training
+- **LRCLIB**: [lrclib.net](https://lrclib.net) — Community synced lyrics database
+- **AcoustID**: [acoustid.org](https://acoustid.org) — Open audio fingerprint database
+
+## License
+
+MIT