Constantin Pinkl

Bootstrapping Language-Audio Pre-training for Music Captioning

We introduce BLAP, a model capable of generating high-quality captions for music. BLAP leverages a fine-tuned CLAP audio encoder and a pre-trained Flan-T5 large language model. To achieve effective cross-modal alignment between music and language, BLAP utilizes a Querying Transformer, allowing us to…