ATR 503 sentences

These include 402 two-phoneme sequences, 223 three-phoneme sequences, or 625 items in total. Phonetically balanced sentences were extracted from newspapers, journals, novels, letters, text books, among others, in a way that several phonetic environments occur at the same rate as much as possible.
Set A ～ Set I (50 sentences each) and Set J (53 sentences)
References
- K. Iso, T. Watanabe, H. Kuwabara, "Design of a Japanese Sentence List for a Speech Database," Preprints, Spring Meeting of Acous. Soc. Jpn., Paper 2-2-19, pp. 89-90 (Mar. 1988). (in Japanese)
- A. Kurematsu, K. Takeda, Y. Sagisaka, S. Katagiri, H. Kuwabara, K. Shikano, "ATR Japanese Speech Database as a Tool of Speech Recognition and Synthesis," Speech Communication, 9, 357-363 (1990).

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SAMPLE (No. 1 - 10 of Set A)

A01	あらゆる　現実を　すべて　自分の　ほうへ　ねじ曲げたのだ。
A02	一週間ばかり　ニューヨークを　取材した。
A03	テレビゲームや　パソコンで　ゲームを　して　遊ぶ。
A04	物価の　変動を　考慮して　給付水準を　決める　必要がある。
A05	救急車が　十分に　動けず　救助作業が　遅れている。
A06	言論の　自由は　一歩　譲れば　百歩も　千歩も　攻めこまれる。
A07	会場の　周辺には　原宿駅や　代々木駅も　あるし　ちょっと　歩けば　新宿御苑駅も　ある。
A08	老人ホームの　場合は　健康器具や　ひざ掛けだ。
A09	ちょっと　遅い　昼食を　とるため　ファミリーレストランに　入ったのです。
A10	嬉しいはずが　ゆっくり　寝ても　いられない。