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Multi-Accent Mandarin Dry-Vocal Singing Dataset: Benchmark for Singing Accent Recognition

Zihao Wang·Ruibin Yuan·Ziqi Geng·Hengjia Li·Xingwei Qu·Xinyi Li·Songye Chen·Haoying Fu·Roger B. Dannenberg·Kejun Zhang
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Singing accent research is underexplored compared to speech accent studies, primarily due to the scarcity of suitable datasets. Existing singing datasets often suffer from detail loss, frequently resulting from the vocal-instrumental separation process. Additionally, they often lack regional accent annotations. To address this, we introduce the Multi-Accent Mandarin Dry-Vocal Singing Dataset (MADVSD). MADVSD comprises over 670 hours of dry vocal recordings from 4,206 native Mandarin speakers across nine distinct Chinese regions. In addition to each participant recording audio of three popular songs in their native accent, they also recorded phonetic exercises covering all Mandarin vowels and a full octave range. We validated MADVSD through benchmark experiments in singing accent recognition, demonstrating its utility for evaluating state-of-the-art speech models in singing contexts. Furthermore, we explored dialectal influences on singing accent and analyzed the role of vowels in accentual variations, leveraging MADVSD's unique phonetic exercises.

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Zihao Wang, Ruibin Yuan, Ziqi Geng, Hengjia Li, Xingwei Qu, Xinyi Li, Songye Chen, Haoying Fu, Roger B. Dannenberg, Kejun Zhang. 2025-12-07. Multi-Accent Mandarin Dry-Vocal Singing Dataset: Benchmark for Singing Accent Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3758210

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