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3636e5d | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 | # NEU Emotional Speech Corpus
- This dataset is built for the purpose of emotional speech synthesis. The transcript were based on the CMU arctic database: http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/cmuarctic.data.
- It includes recordings for four speakers- two males and two females.
- The emotional styles are neutral, sleepiness, anger, disgust and amused.
- Each audio file is recorded in 16bits .wav format
- Spk-Je (Female, English: Neutral(417 files), Amused(222 files), Angry(523 files), Sleepy(466 files), Disgust(189 files))
- Spk-Bea (Female, English: Neutral(373 files), Amused(309 files), Angry(317 files), Sleepy(520 files), Disgust(347 files))
- Spk-Sa (Male, English: Neutral(493 files), Amused(501 files), Angry(468 files), Sleepy(495 files), Disgust(497 files))
- Spk-Jsh (Male, English: Neutral(302 files), Amused(298 files), Sleepy(263 files))
- File naming (audio_folder): anger_1-28_0011.wav - 1) first word (emotion style), 1-28 - annotation doc file range, Last four digit is the sentence number.
- File naming (annotation_folder): anger_1-28.TextGrid - 1) first word (emotional style), 1-28- annotation doc range
Please reference the paper below when using this database:
A. Adigwe, N. Tits, K. El Haddad, S. Ostadabbas, T. Dutoit, “The Emotional Voices Database: Towards Controlling the Emotion Dimension in Voice Generation Systems,” 2018. (arXiv preprint:1806.09514)
For further inquiry please contact:
Sarah Ostadabbas,
PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
Office Phone: 617-373-4992
email: ostadabbas@ece.neu.edu
Augmented Cognition Lab (ACLab) Webpage: http://www.northeastern.edu/ostadabbas/
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