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 2</strong> It is a modification with some added and some omitted recordings of Version 1 and features 12 performances of 11 different compositions. 8 sung by female and 4 by male. <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>Using this dataset </strong> Please cite the following publication for if you use the dataset in your work: Dzhambazov, G., &amp; Serra X. (2015). Modeling of Phoneme Durations for Alignment between Polyphonic Audio and Lyrics. Sound and Music Computing Conference 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27614 We are interested in knowing if you find our datasets useful! If you use our dataset please email us at [e-mail] and tell us about your research. <strong>CONTACT</strong> If you have any questions or comments about the dataset, please feel free to write to us. Georgi Dzhambazov<br> Music Technology Group,<br> Universitat Pompeu Fabra,<br> Barcelona, Spain<br> georgi &lt;dot&gt; dzhambazov &lt;at&gt; upf &lt;dot&gt;edu <strong>RELASE LINK</strong> https://github.com/georgid/turkish-makam-lyrics-2-audio-test-data-synthesis/releases/tag/2.0 http://compmusic.upf.edu/turkish-sarki