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The Audio, Speech, and Vision Processing Lab - Emotional Sound Database (ASVP - ESD)

ABOUT

The Audio, Speech, and Vision Processing Lab - Emotional Sound Database (ASVP - ESD) was created by School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology.

CHOSEN EMOTIONS

13 emotions were chosen:

1. boredom,sigh
2. neutral,calm
3. happy,laugh,gaggle
4. sad,cry
5. angry,grunt,frustration
6. fearful,scream,panic
7. disgust,dislike,contempt
8. surprised,gasp,amazed
9. excited
10. pleasure
11. pain,groan
12. disappointment,disapproval
13. breath

ORGANISING THE DATABASE

Speech Statistic

Duration Statisitc	Duration
Num. of Clips	2,150
Total Duration	13347.835 seconds = 222.464 minutes = 3.708 hours
Max Dur	32.235 seconds
Min Dur	0.287 seconds
Mean Dur	6.208 seconds
Std. Dur	3.839 seconds
Num. of Clips > 30 seconds	1

Emotion	Num. of Clips
01: boredom, sigh	81
02: neutral, calm	657
03: happy, laugh, gaggle	154
04: sad, cry	268
05: angry, grunt, frustration	385
06: fearful, scream, panic	63
07: disgust, dislike, contempt	90
08: surprised, hasp, amazed	144
09: excited	136
10: pleasure	15
11: pain, groan	25
12: disappointmrnt, disapproval	132
13: breath	0

Emotion Intensity	Num. of Clips
01: normal	1,783
02: high	367

Gender	Num. of Clips
01: male	1,224
02: female	926

Age Range	Num. of Clips
01: >65	65
02: 20~65	1,914
03: 3<20	80
04: <3	91

Language	Num. of Clips
01: Mandarin	937
02: English	621
03: French	175
04: Others	417

Non-Speech Statistic

Duration Statisitc	Duration
Num. of Clips	5,484
Total Duration	14438.117 seconds = 240.635 minutes = 4.011 hours
Max Dur	25.810 seconds
Min Dur	0.141 seconds
Mean Dur	2.633 seconds
Std. Dur	2.720 seconds
Num. of Clips > 30 seconds	0

Emotion	Num. of Clips
01: boredom, sigh	392
02: neutral, calm	253
03: happy, laugh, gaggle	878
04: sad, cry	383
05: angry, grunt, frustration	339
06: fearful, scream, panic	799
07: disgust, dislike, contempt	473
08: surprised, hasp, amazed	808
09: excited	109
10: pleasure	273
11: pain, groan	706
12: disappointmrnt, disapproval	70
13: breath	1

Emotion Intensity	Num. of Clips
01: normal	4,693
02: high	791

Gender	Num. of Clips
01: male	2,919
02: female	2,565

Age Range	Num. of Clips
01: >65	73
02: 20~65	5,224
03: 3<20	100
04: <3	87

Language	Num. of Clips
01: Mandarin	512
02: English	3,258
03: French	109
04: Others	1,605

References

1. Dejoli Tientcheu Touko Landry, Qianhua He, Haikang Yan and Yanxiong Li. (2020). ASVP-ESD:A dataset and its benchmark for emotion recognition using both speech and non-speech utterances. Global Scientific Journals, 8(6), 1793-1798.