# PJS: phoneme-balanced Japanese singing voice corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02959 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.02959/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 Jun 2020.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a free Japanese singing voice corpus that can be used for highly applicable and reproducible singing voice synthesis research. A singing voice corpus helps develop singing voice synthesis, but existing corpora have two critical problems: data imbalance (singing voice corpora do not guarantee phoneme balance, unlike speaking-voice corpora) and copyright issues (cannot legally share data). As a way to avoid these problems, we constructed a PJS (phoneme-balanced Japanese singing voice) corpus that guarantees phoneme balance and is licensed with CC BY-SA 4.0, and we composed melodies using a phoneme-balanced speaking-voice corpus. This paper describes how we built the corpus.