JSUT and JVS: Free Japanese voice corpora for accelerating speech synthesis research

• DOI: 10.1250/ast.41.761
• Publication Date: 2020-08-31T22:07:13Z
• Authors: Shinnosuke Takamichi; Ryosuke Sonobe; Kentaro Mitsui; Yuki Saito; Tomoki Koriyama; Naoko Tanji; Hiroshi Saruwatari
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

In this paper, we develop two corpora for speech synthesis research. Thanks to improvements in machine learning techniques, including deep learning, is becoming a task. To accelerate research, aim at developing Japanese voice reasonably accessible from not only academic institutions but also commercial companies. construct the JSUT and JVS corpora. They are designed mainly text-to-speech conversion, respectively. The corpus contains 10 hours of reading-style uttered by single speaker, 30 containing three styles 100 speakers. This paper describes how summarizes specifications. available our project pages.