The corpus behind every number in the README stops at 2020. Nothing about how Cantonese tone and melody interact in the last five years is measured.
This is the single highest-value contribution and needs no coding, only a good ear and patience.
What to do
- Pick a Cantopop song released 2021 or later.
- Comment here with the title so nobody duplicates it.
cp corpus/TEMPLATE.krn corpus/X0001.krn and transcribe it. Format is in corpus/README.md.python scripts/check_krn.py corpus/ until it's clean.- Open a PR with the single
.krn file.
What matters most
Independent and non-radio artists are the biggest blind spot. The corpus is
dominated by mainstream radio singles where 林夕 and 黃偉文 wrote 60% of the
lyrics, so Gareth.T, Kiri T, serrini, per se, Yellow and similar are worth more
per song than another mainstream ballad.
One song is a real contribution. There is no minimum.
Transcriptions are CC BY 4.0 so they pool with the upstream corpus. Transcribe
the melody yourself, do not paste in commercial lyric sheets or sheet music
scans.
The corpus behind every number in the README stops at 2020. Nothing about how Cantonese tone and melody interact in the last five years is measured.
This is the single highest-value contribution and needs no coding, only a good ear and patience.
What to do
cp corpus/TEMPLATE.krn corpus/X0001.krnand transcribe it. Format is incorpus/README.md.python scripts/check_krn.py corpus/until it's clean..krnfile.What matters most
Independent and non-radio artists are the biggest blind spot. The corpus is
dominated by mainstream radio singles where 林夕 and 黃偉文 wrote 60% of the
lyrics, so Gareth.T, Kiri T, serrini, per se, Yellow and similar are worth more
per song than another mainstream ballad.
One song is a real contribution. There is no minimum.
Transcriptions are CC BY 4.0 so they pool with the upstream corpus. Transcribe
the melody yourself, do not paste in commercial lyric sheets or sheet music
scans.