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Re: [AUDITORY] Emotions vocalisations database

GAUDIE is an extensively validated German naturalistic auditory speech database with positive, neutral, and negative speech sequences available for non-profit academic research purposes. It comprises 37 audio speech sequences with a total duration of 92 minutes. The database is described in Lingelbach et al 2023

 

Lingelbach, K., Vukelić, M. & Rieger, J.W. GAUDIE: Development, validation, and exploration of a naturalistic German AUDItory Emotional database. Behav Res 56, 2049–2063 (2024). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02135-z


Best,

    Jochem


On 25.02.26 15:46, Morgan, Shae wrote:

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If the stimuli can have speech vs nonverbal or just emotional sounds, there are lots of databases available:

Toronto Emotional Speech Set (Dupuis & Pichora Fuller)
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ejlok1/toronto-emotional-speech-set-tess
Morgan Emotional Speech Set (Morgan, 2019)
https://zenodo.org/records/7378320
Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS; Livingstone and Russo 2018)
https://zenodo.org/records/1188976


They're all different in terms of which variables they code/don't code for. RAVDESS has song and speech, limited sentence variability (2 sentence frames), but many talkers and emotional expressions in high and low intensity. MESS has more semantic variability and target words (making it suitable for word and emotion recognition studies, masking, intelligibility, etc.), but fewer talkers (3 female 3 male) recorded at a single intensity for 4 emotion groups. TESS has few talkers, but includes age as a factor, a good number of emotional expressions. 

Table 1 in Morgan & LaPaugh (2025) has a summary of commonly used emotional speech databases with citations for each - you can read up on the methods to see which database would suit your needs!

Morgan, S. D., & LaPaugh, B. (2025). Methodological Stimulus Considerations for Auditory Emotion Recognition Test Design. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(3), 1209-1224.

Cheers!




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Shae Morgan, PhD, AuD, CCC-A (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Program Director, Audiology

 

 

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The stimulus set of non verbal emotional vocalizations that are reported in this paper, Sauter et al, 2010, QJEP (https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_1169646/component/file_1169645/content), and some of which are cross culturally recognised (Sauter et al, PNAS 2010) are available if you email me directly.

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Hello all, 

I am in need of a set of freely available emotions vocalisations for a study I am doing on detecting emotions in the human voice. 

I am aware of the Montreal Affective Voices. I am also aware of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS-E) database. 

Is there any reason to choose one over the other or anybody have any other suggestions? 

Thanks in advance, 

Maria

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