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Title	Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque
Authors	I. Saratxaga, E. Navas, I. Hernáez, I. Aholab
Abstract	This paper describes an emotional speech database recorded for standard Basque. The database has been designed with the twofold purpose of being used for corpus based synthesis, and also of allowing the study of prosodic models for the emotions. The database is thus large, to get good corpus based synthesis quality and contains the same texts recorded in the six basic emotions plus the neutral style. The recordings were carried out by two professional dubbing actors, a man and a woman. The paper explains the whole creation process, beginning with the design stage, following with the corpus creation and the recording phases, and finishing with some learned lessons and hints.
Keywords	Speech Database, Emotions, Corpus Based Synthesis, Database Design
Full paper	Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque

Title

Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque

Authors

I. Saratxaga, E. Navas, I. Hernáez, I. Aholab

Abstract

This paper describes an emotional speech database recorded for standard Basque. The database has been designed with the twofold purpose of being used for corpus based synthesis, and also of allowing the study of prosodic models for the emotions. The database is thus large, to get good corpus based synthesis quality and contains the same texts recorded in the six basic emotions plus the neutral style. The recordings were carried out by two professional dubbing actors, a man and a woman. The paper explains the whole creation process, beginning with the design stage, following with the corpus creation and the recording phases, and finishing with some learned lessons and hints.

Keywords

Speech Database, Emotions, Corpus Based Synthesis, Database Design

Full paper

Designing and Recording an Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque