# Emotional Speech Dataset

This dataset contains emotional speech recordings by Maya, featuring various emotions including anger, happiness, sadness, fear, excitement, calmness, and more.

## Dataset Description

### Dataset Summary

A collection of audio recordings with transcriptions, where the speaker (Maya) expresses different emotions. The dataset is designed for emotion recognition and emotional speech synthesis tasks.

### Supported Tasks

- Audio Classification
- Speech Recognition
- Emotion Recognition
- Text-to-Speech
- Voice Conversion

### Languages

English

### Dataset Structure

The dataset is organized into train, validation, and test splits with the following structure:
```
{
  'file': 'path/to/audio.wav',
  'text': 'transcription of the audio',
  'emotion': 'emotion label',
  'speaker': 'Maya'
}
```

### Emotions

The dataset includes various emotions:
- Angry
- Happy
- Sad
- Fear
- Excited
- Calm
- Apologetic
- Base (Neutral)
- Surprise

### Data Split

- Train: 80%
- Validation: 10%
- Test: 10%

## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

The audio recordings are performed by Maya, expressing different emotions through various conversational phrases and statements.

### Personal and Sensitive Information

The dataset contains only acted emotional speech and does not include any personal or sensitive information.