This paper presents Att-HACK, the first large database of acted speech with social attitudes. Available databases of expressive speech are rares and very often restricted to the primary emotions: anger, joy, sadness, fear. This greatly limits the scope of the research on expressive speech. Besides, a fundamental aspect of speech prosody is always ignored and missing from such databases: its variety, i.e. the possibility to repeat an utterance while varying its prosody. This paper represents a first attempt to widen the scope of expressivity in speech, by providing a database of acted speech with social attitudes: friendly, seductive, dominant, and distant. The proposed database comprises 25 speakers interpreting 100 utterances in 4 social attitudes, with 3-5 repetitions each per attitude for a total of around 30 hours of speech. The Att-HACK is freely available for academic research under a Creative Commons Licence.
Cite as: Moine, C.L., Obin, N. (2020) Att-HACK: An Expressive Speech Database with Social Attitudes. Proc. Speech Prosody 2020, 744-748, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-152
@inproceedings{moine20_speechprosody,
author={Clément Le Moine and Nicolas Obin},
title={{Att-HACK: An Expressive Speech Database with Social Attitudes}},
year=2020,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2020},
pages={744--748},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-152}
}