Emotional Prosody Speech and Transcripts


Introduction

This file contains documentation on the Emotional Prosody Speech and Transcripts, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002S28 and ISBN 1-58563-237-6.

This publication contains audio recordings and corresponding transcripts, collected over an eight month period in 2000-2001 and designed to support research in emotional prosody. The recordings consist of professional actors reading a series of semantically neutral utterances (dates and numbers) spanning fourteen distinct emotional categories, selected after Banse & Scherer's study of vocal emotional expression in German. (Banse, R. & Scherer, K. R. 1996. Acoustic profiles in vocal emotion expression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 614-636.)

Actor participants were provided with descriptions of each emotional context, including situational examples adapted from those used in the original German study. Flashcards were used to display series of four-syllable dates and numbers to be uttered in the approriate emotional category.

Data

There are 30 data files: 15 recordings in sphere format and their transcripts. The original session recordings are provided in their entirety, including informal chit-chat and discussion between each emotion category elicitation task. Time alignment is limited to utterances within the formal elicitation tasks and miscellaneous regions have been marked as such.

The utterances were recorded directly into WAVES+ datafiles, on 2 channels with a sampling rate of 22.05KHz. The two microphones used were a stand-mounted boom Shure SN94 and a headset Seinnheiser HMD 410.

Please see speech and transcr for listings of the audio speech files and transcripts.

Please go to the doc directory for the documentation files.
file.tbl A complete listing of the files
instructions-for-actors.html Instructions for actor participants
demographics.html List of actor participants
continuum_cards_script_A.txt Continuum cards: list A
continuum_cards_script_B.txt Continuum cards: list B
emotionlist_A.txt Emotion cards: list A
emotionlist_B.txt Emotion cards: list B
Emotion_Categories.pdf Emotion categories and descriptions
Prosody_Comprehension_Measures.pdf Data usage details
papers Abstracts for publication

Updates

Additional information, updates and bug fixes may be available in the LDC catalog entry for this corpus LDC2002S28.

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