ITRW on Speech and Emotion September 5-7, 2000 Newcastle, Northern Ireland, UK

Databases of emotional speech

Nick Campbell

ATR Information Sciences Division, Kyoto, Japan; CREST, JST (Japan Science and Technology)

This paper presents a personal view of some the problems facing speech technologists in the study of emotional speech. It describes some databases that are currently being used, and points out that the majority of them use actors to reproduce the emotions, thereby possibly falsely representing the true characteristics of emotion in speech. Databases of real emotional speech, on the other hand, present serious ethical and moral problems, since the nature of their contents must, by definition, reveal personal and intimate details about the speakers.

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Bibliographic reference.  Campbell, Nick (2000): "Databases of emotional speech", In SpeechEmotion-2000, 34-38.