Dataset for ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyric Intelligibility (CLIP)

Cadenza This is the training and validation data for the ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyrics Intelligibility (CLIP1) Understanding the lyrics in music is key for music enjoyment [1]. People with hearing loss can have difficulties to clearly and effortlessly hearing lyrics [2], however. In speech technology, having metrics to automatically evaluate intelligibility has driven improvements in speech enhancement. We want to do the same for music with lyrics! A detailed description of the challenge can be found on our website