Turkish Şarkı Vocal Dataset

Turkish şarkı vocal dataset is a collection of recordings of compositions from the vocal form şarkı. The recordings are selected from a musicBrainz collection of Turkish music http://musicbrainz.org/collection/544f7aec-dba6-440c-943f-103cf344efbb The collection has annotations of lyrics. Each lyrical phrase is aligned to its corresponding segment in the audio. <strong>THE DATASET </strong> <strong>Audio music content</strong> <strong>version 1</strong> It features 10 performances of different compositions. Five are sung by male and 5 by female singer. The recordings are selected so that there is only a single main vocalist (or the intensity of the back vocalst is relatively low compared to the main vocalist). Accompanying instruments are mainly string ensembles. No percussive instruments are present. Audio is in .wav format. Please cite the following publication for if you use the dataset in your work: Dzhambazov, G., Şentürk S., &amp; Serra X. (2014). Automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment in classical Turkish music. 4th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32139 <strong>Lyrical phrases annotations</strong> The audio is segmented into one-section chunks (a section is nakarat, meyan etc.) Each audio segment is aligned to the lyrical phrases. A phrase corresponds roughly to a musical bar and contains 1 or 2 words. An annotation file is in .TextGrid format of Praat. <strong>CONTACT</strong> If you have any questions or comments about the dataset, please feel free to write to us. Georgi Dzhambazov Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain georgi &lt;dot&gt; dzhambazov &lt;at&gt; upf &lt;dot&gt;edu <strong>RELEASE LINK</strong> https://github.com/georgid/turkish-makam-lyrics-2-audio-test-data/releases/tag/10-sarki_dataset http://compmusic.upf.edu/turkish-sarki