• Keywords: Emotional, Articulatory, Acoustic, Acted
• Language: American English
• 3 speakers: 1 male and 2 females
• 14 sentences for a male / 10 sentences for females
  
  The list of sentences (10 sentences for females are 5-14.)
  1. I don't know how she could miss this opportunity.
  2. Toby and George stole the game.
  3. Hold your breath and combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.
  4. They vetoed his proposal instantly.
  5. Your grandmother is on the phone.
  6. Don't compare me to your father.
  7. I hear the echo of voices and the sound of shoes.
  8. That dress looks like it comes from Asia.
  9. They think the company and I will have a long future.
  10. The doctor made the scar. Foam antiseptic didn't help.
  11. That made being deaf tantamount to isolation.
  12. The doctor made the scar foam with antiseptic.
  13. I am talking about the same picture you showed me.
  14. It's hard being very deaf. Tantamount to isolation.
  
  
• 4 acted emotions: anger, happiness, sadness and neutrality
• Articulatory movements data (matlab file format) + speech waveforms (wav format)

Evaluations

• Emotional Contents Rating:
  • Each utterance is evaluated by at least 3 human listeners
  • Each categorical emotion contents (anger, happiness, sadness and neutrality) are numerically rated (0 to 4) for each utterance
  • The utterances which obtain both high rates (3 or 4) for its target emotion and low rates (0 or 1) for the other emotions are chosen as "Best Emotion Utterances"; Their lists are in best_{abe,joy,lau}_files.txt
• VAD (valence, activation and dominance) Rating:
  • Total 18 evaluators from various languages and cultural background.
  • Each perceptual dimension is numerically rated for each utterance

Detailed Description

• The details of data collection and post processings (noise reduction, smoothing, alignment, etc.) are explained in below paper.

Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, An articulatory study of emotional speech production, in Proceedings of InterSpeech, pages 497-500, 2005 (download pdf)