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| Title | EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database |
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| Authors | Giovanni Costantini, Iacopo Iaderola, andrea Paoloni and Massimiliano Todisco |
| Abstract | This article describes the first emotional corpus, named EMOVO, applicable to Italian language,. It is a database built from the voices of up to 6 actors who played 14 sentences simulating 6 emotional states (disgust, fear, anger, joy, surprise, sadness) plus the neutral state. These emotions are the well-known Big Six found in most of the literature related to emotional speech. The recordings were made with professional equipment in the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni laboratories. The paper also describes a subjective validation test of the corpus, based on emotion-discrimination of two sentences carried out by two different groups of 24 listeners. The test was successful because it yielded an overall recognition accuracy of 80%. It is observed that emotions less easy to recognize are joy and disgust, whereas the most easy to detect are anger, sadness and the neutral state. |
| Topics | Emotion Recognition/Generation |
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EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{COSTANTINI14.591, author = {Giovanni Costantini and Iacopo Iaderola and andrea Paoloni and Massimiliano Todisco}, title = {EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |