Robotaba Guitar Tablature Transcription Framework

This paper presents Robotaba, a web-based guitar tablature transcription framework. The framework facilitates the creation of web applications in which polyphonic transcription and guitar tablature arrangement algorithms can be embedded. Such a web application is implemented, and consists of an existing polyphonic transcription algorithm and a new guitar tablature arrangement algorithm. The result is a unified system that is capable of transcribing guitar tablature from a digital audio recording and displaying the resulting tablature in the web browser. Additionally, two ground-truth datasets for polyphonic transcription and guitar tablature arrangement are compiled from manual transcriptions gathered from the tablature website ultimate-guitar.com. The implemented transcription web application is evaluated on the compiled ground-truth datasets using several metrics.