Live Gurbani Tracking: A Benchmark and Reference System for Captioning Sikh Kirtan

We present a benchmark and reference system for live captioning of Sikh Kirtan - the continuous, sung recitation of verses from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (SGGS). Unlike open-vocabulary lyrics transcription, Kirtan captioning is a closed-vocabulary problem: every displayed line must be an exact, w...