4 papers
Voice Conversion for Likability Control via Automated Rating of Speech Synthesis Corpora
Hitoshi Suda, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Satoru Fukayama
Perceived voice likability plays a crucial role in various social interactions, such as partner selection and advertising. A system that provides reference likable voice samples ta…
IdolSongsJp Corpus: A Multi-Singer Song Corpus in the Style of Japanese Idol Groups
Hitoshi Suda, Junya Koguchi, Shunsuke Yoshida +3
Japanese idol groups, comprising performers known as "idols," are an indispensable part of Japanese pop culture. They frequently appear in live concerts and television programs, en…
FruitsMusic: A Real-World Corpus of Japanese Idol-Group Songs
Hitoshi Suda, Shunsuke Yoshida, Tomohiko Nakamura +2
This study presents FruitsMusic, a metadata corpus of Japanese idol-group songs in the real world, precisely annotated with who sings what and when. Japanese idol-group songs, vita…
Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data
Hitoshi Suda, Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi
This paper introduces CocoNut-Humoresque, an open-source large-scale speech likability corpus that includes speech segments and their per-listener likability scores. Evaluating voi…