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Technology & AIAug 19, 2026

Finetuning Strategies for Querying Sounds by Vocal Imitation

This technical report describes our winning submission to the AES AIMLA 2025 Challenge on querying sound effects by vocal imitation.

This technical report describes our winning submission to the AES AIMLA 2025 Challenge on querying sound effects by vocal imitation. We investigate two complementary fine-tuning strategies: contrastive learning with a frozen, pretrained CED encoder, and joint contrastive-triplet…

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