Singing Voice Database
Authors: Liliya Tsirulnik,
Visiting researcher at University of California in San Diego, Computer Audition Lab
Director at Center for Research In Entertainment and Learning, University of California in San Diego
For research of singing voice expressions
and developing of a Singing Voice Synthesis System
Song Recordings
This part contains the recording of the song “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” performed by female and male singers, Susan Narucki and Philip Larson, with/without different singing expressions. The types of expressions are described in Table 1. The vocal recordings are accompanied by glottal recordings.
Content
For several recordings (namely, male recordings with expressions “flat”, “bounce” and “hollow”) there are annotation file with all the vowel phonemes marked.
The ARPABET code is used for phonetic transcription. The phonetic transcription of the whole song as well as the vowel phonemes are presented in Table 3.
Directory and files structure
Files of the first part are contained in “Song recordings” directory.
The recordings are in WAVE PCM format with the following characteristics: 44100 Hz; 16 bit; 1 channel (mono). The annotation files, if present, have the same name, that the .wav-files, and the .lab extension. The format of .lab files is identical to those described in section 2.2. The SEGMENT_NAME is the name of the vowel for parts of recordings, representing vowels, and is “!” for the parts of recordings between two vowels. The content of files is described in Table 4.
