ASJ Japanese Newspaper Article Sentences Read Speech Corpus (JNAS)
Data DOI
https://doi.org/10.32130/src.JNAS
Producer, Project
The Speech Database Committee, the Acoustical Society of Japan
(Newspaper article data : the Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd.)
Contents
Newspaper article sentences: 155 text sets (about 100 sentences per set), 16 176 sentences in total
ATR's 503 phonetically balanced sentences: 10 text sets (about 50 sentences per set), 503 sentences in total
Speaker
306 speakers (153 males and 153 females)
1 set each of contents per speaker
Recording environment
With two microphones: a head-set microphone and a desk-top microphone
Speech file format
WAV format (16kHz, 16bit, Mono)
Distribution media
3 DVD-DLs or 1 BD
Licensing
For research purpose only
Price
20 000 yen (plus consumption tax for a domestic order)
Further information
Update information
Extract compressed speech files and reconstruct to DVD-Rs
Delete the NIST SPHERE headers from speech files
Convert speech files to wav format, correct the ruby of text sets and revise all documents (Dec. 2014)
Speech sample for test listening
Newspaper article sentences
まだ 正式 に 決まっ た わけ で は ない ので
Phonetically balanced sentences
救急車が 十分に 動けず 救助作業が 遅れている。