A Singing Voice Database in Basque for Statistical Singing Synthesis of Bertsolaritza

Xabier Sarasola, Eva Navas, David Tavarez, Daniel Erro, Ibon Saratxaga, Inma Hernaez

Abstract
This paper describes the characteristics and structure of a Basque singing voice database of bertsolaritza. Bertsolaritza is a popular singing style from Basque Country sung exclusively in Basque that is improvised and a capella. The database is designed to be used in statistical singing voice synthesis for bertsolaritza style. Starting from the recordings and transcriptions of numerous singers, diarization and phoneme alignment experiments have been made to extract the singing voice from the recordings and create phoneme alignments. This labelling processes have been performed applying standard speech processing techniques and the results prove that these techniques can be used in this specific singing style.
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L16-1120
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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756–759
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Xabier Sarasola, Eva Navas, David Tavarez, Daniel Erro, Ibon Saratxaga, and Inma Hernaez. 2016. A Singing Voice Database in Basque for Statistical Singing Synthesis of Bertsolaritza. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 756–759, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Singing Voice Database in Basque for Statistical Singing Synthesis of Bertsolaritza (Sarasola et al., LREC 2016)
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