Japanese Female Speech Synthesis Sample Corpus

Presenting a 10.4-hour sample of a Japanese speech synthesis corpus recorded by a native female speaker with authentic accent. It features phonemically balanced coverage and professional phonetician annotations, matching speech synthesis R&D needs.

Use Cases

• Train a text-to-speech model using the phonemically balanced audio samples for Japanese female voice synthesis.
• Analyze authentic Japanese accent and prosody patterns from the native speaker recordings for linguistic research.
• Develop speech synthesis evaluation metrics based on the professionally annotated phonetic data.

Strengths

• 10.4 hours of professionally recorded audio data.
• Phoneme coverage is balanced, as stated in the description.
• Annotations involve a professional phonetician.

Limitations

• The provided data is only a sample of a larger paid dataset.
• Unknown total size, row count, and specific column structure.
• Potential limitations in speaker diversity as it features a single female speaker.

Provenance

Source

Nexdata

Collection Method

Recorded by a Japanese native speaker, with professional phonetician annotation.

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-04-24.

Geography

Japan (implied by language and speaker origin).