Livingstone, S. R., & Russo, F. A. (2018). The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American English. PloS one, 13(5), e0196391.
The database has been widely used in psychological, neural, and computational studies of emotion. An acoustic analysis of the RAVDESS was recently reported here:
Major, Devon P., and Monita Chatterjee. "Acoustic analyses of the RAVDESS corpus of emotional stimuli." JASA Express Letters 6.2 (2026).
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Professor (Full), Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Scientist, KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network
Scientific Director, SMART Lab
Scientific Director, SingWell Project
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On Feb 26, 2026, at 04:13, Jochem Rieger <jochem.rieger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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 2023Lingelbach, 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-zBest,JochemOn 25.02.26 15:46, Morgan, Shae wrote:ACHTUNG! Diese E-Mail kommt von Extern! WARNING! This email originated off-campus.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)Morgan Emotional Speech Set (Morgan, 2019)Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS; Livingstone and Russo 2018)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!
From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Sophie Scott <sophie.scott@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Emotions vocalisations databaseCAUTION: This email originated from outside of our organization. Do not click links, open attachments, or respond unless you recognize the sender's email address and know the contents are safe.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.Best wishesSophieProf Sophie Scott CBEDirector, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL,17 Queen Square,London WC1N 3AZ020 7679 1144 (office)07881853586 (mobile)From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Uther, Maria <M.Uther@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Emotions vocalisations database⚠ Caution: External senderHello 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,MariaProfessor Maria Uther, C.Psychol., CSci., AFBPsSHonorary ProfessorUniversity of Wolverhampton-- Jochem Rieger Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Applied Neurocognitive Psychology DFG Center for Open and Reproducible Neuroscience Tools COST Action INDoS CA24161 DFG RTG 2783 Neuromodulation of motor and cognitive function Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg Phone: +49 (0)441 798 4533 Web: https://uol.de/en/applied-neurocognitive-psychology github: https://github.com/ANCPLabOldenburg https://www.indos-costaction.eu/
