Chapter 4

Acoustic Modelling for Sung Speech Recognition

DSing evaluation set

Below, are presented six utterances sampled from the DSing evaluation dataset. These samples illustrate part of the complexities of unaccompanied sung speech recognition.

Genre: Female
Transcript: I DON’T REALLY NEED TO LOOK VERY MUCH FURTHER
Genre: Female
Transcript: CAN I LAY BY YOUR SIDE
Genre: Female
Transcript: YOU KNOW HOW THE TIME FLIES ONLY YESTERDAY WAS THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
Genre: Male
Transcript: EVER A SURPRISE
Genre: Male
Transcript: YOU AND I GET CLOSER IN SLOW MOTION
Genre: Male
Transcript: SHOW ME A GARDEN THAT’S BURSTING INTO LIFE