Music recognition using Audiveris SW installed on a Windows 11 laptop
Today I made a test music recognition using the Audiveris SW installed on my Windows 11 laptop.
The test was maybe simple as I used the Violin 1 sheet printed from the the Dvorak 's Symphony No9 "From the New World" which I recently engraved in Lilypond. I selected the 1st movement starting from Molto Allegro to the end so I had to remove the initial Adagio.
Before I started, I printed the score in very high resolution, greyscale and loss-less, see attached pdf "AllegroMolto_Vi1_pdf.pdf".
On Audiveris side, I didn't set up anything special. The resulting music recognition was quite good. I made some correction on page 1 but none on the rest and exported it to XML which I finally opened in MuseScore. Not too bad to my opinion but judge yourself. I would suggest as many corrections as possible, in particular timing corrections, are performed in Audiveris before export to MuseScore as timing errors are cumbersome in MS.
I've not tried the on-line version and I've not tried to perform music recognition on a complete score 23 Instruments for Dvorak 9th (in total 206 pages). If I were to convert the engraved Lilypond version into MuseScore, I would do it Instrument by instrument.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| AllegroMolto_Vi1_pdf.pdf | 151.16 KB |
| AllegroMolto_Vi1_pdf.mscz | 51.03 KB |
Comments
It may be worth a shot to try the whole score.
In reply to It may be worth a shot to… by bobjp
Oh, ich mache morgen ein Versuch.
As suggested, I tried to import the first movement of Dvorak's 9th symphony (52 pages).
The recognition was ok but not as good as for one instrument only. I also made a test on a scanned version of the score I had at home. Surprisingly the recognition of this was better than the PDF generated by Lilypond. The biggest problem, however, was that with the scanned pages, I was running into memory problems. So I was forced to split the 1st movement in two parts. In summary, I guess I have to spend a day or so to correct the OCR in Audioveris before I can export the XML and import it into MuseScore. So far, I've only made a test import. Worked ok but obviously with too many errors.
I stop this here. In summary I think Audioveris is not too bad and comparing the the time I would need to transcribe the symphony from scratch into MuseScore (more than 200 pages and 23 instruments) the is certainly a potential for time saving.
The specific Audioveris problems I will address directly to the Audioveris team/GitHub.